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I can't believe that with the racism and nativism (I guess those two are the same thing) prevalent in the 19th century American life, that the number of native-born Chinese grew by the decade. Even more interesting to me is that with the blind stupidity that comes with mass-hysteria racism, that when the wave of anti-Japanese sentiment that occurred in the 1940s, there was not a nose-dive in Chinese immigration. I feel like fear of being lumped in with "the bad guys" would have been enough. It's a relief to see that this was not the case, at least as far as the numbers can show. -Cash Nelson | I can't believe that with the racism and nativism (I guess those two are the same thing) prevalent in the 19th century American life, that the number of native-born Chinese grew by the decade. Even more interesting to me is that with the blind stupidity that comes with mass-hysteria racism, that when the wave of anti-Japanese sentiment that occurred in the 1940s, there was not a nose-dive in Chinese immigration. I feel like fear of being lumped in with "the bad guys" would have been enough. It's a relief to see that this was not the case, at least as far as the numbers can show. -Cash Nelson | ||
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| + | I was a bit surprised by the statistic that in the mid-20th century, Chinese workers in America were sending remittances of two billion dollars and only seven million dollars was returned to the United States. That struck me as interesting and also explains in a broad aspect why China has been on the rise in the 20th and into the 21st centuries. But it was through this almost unstable familial relationship between those who lived in China and those that lived in the United States that made this possible. --Joe C. | ||
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