The dark history of the Chinese Exclusion Act - Robert Chang
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I guess after the foreigners witnessed out how the Chinese would bow to all the unfairness bestowed by their own government then and now, some might think oh it would really be unfair to these Chinese folks if we don't treat them equally bad.
So if you don't have the guts to right the wrongs in your own country, you might as well keep your head down and mouth shut when the foreigners look down on you. Afterall these are exactly how you behave back in your own den no?
Date: 2021-07-01
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Aethyr
Ooh, ooh, ooh, now do China today! Or how about the immigration rules of any modern country in the world over the last 50 years? This video is wholly disingenuous, anti-American propaganda. Why you ask? Because almost every country, even today, has very strict laws on immigration. In the Philippines, my own country, no one can move here and become a citizen. Period. You can apply to become a legal permanent resident, but you will never have the right to vote, or collect benefits. Just to obtain the right to become a legal permanent resident requires, even Americans, 60, 000 USD for those under age 55 to be deposited into a Philippines bank never to be touched again under penalty of deportation. If memory serves over age 55 the price is reduced to 20, 000 or something about there.
No country on earth is as accepting and giving to foreigners than the USA. In the last 5 years 2 of my friends have moved from the Philippines to the USA and earned citizenship. One of them brought his entire family, 1 son and 2 daughters.
Shame on you.
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Ooh, ooh, ooh, now do China today! Or how about the immigration rules of any modern country in the world over the last 50 years? This video is wholly disingenuous, anti-American propaganda. Why you ask? Because almost every country, even today, has very strict laws on immigration. In the Philippines, my own country, no one can move here and become a citizen. Period. You can apply to become a legal permanent resident, but you will never have the right to vote, or collect benefits. Just to obtain the right to become a legal permanent resident requires, even Americans, 60, 000 USD for those under age 55 to be deposited into a Philippines bank never to be touched again under penalty of deportation. If memory serves over age 55 the price is reduced to 20, 000 or something about there.
No country on earth is as accepting and giving to foreigners than the USA. In the last 5 years 2 of my friends have moved from the Philippines to the USA and earned citizenship. One of them brought his entire family, 1 son and 2 daughters.
Shame on you.
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Razoldon
The Chinese exclusion act alongside other discriminatory/targeting bills really goes to show how over the top the US government will go to deal with threats to national security. While a small number of these acts did help protect a bit of national security (ie catch spies but this debatable if the number was substantial enough, the damage caused by most if not all of these laws was too immense to be considered collateral. That s why I think learning from history is crucial for our society as if we erase, alter, or never teach about it, it will be bound to repeat itself.
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The Chinese exclusion act alongside other discriminatory/targeting bills really goes to show how over the top the US government will go to deal with threats to national security. While a small number of these acts did help protect a bit of national security (ie catch spies but this debatable if the number was substantial enough, the damage caused by most if not all of these laws was too immense to be considered collateral. That s why I think learning from history is crucial for our society as if we erase, alter, or never teach about it, it will be bound to repeat itself.
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Davidm00sh12
God, everyone in this comment section is so cucked. Barring the Xinjiang incident, you just have to look at how the Chinese treat all foreigners in general. Let me tell you, the Chinese treated a whole lot better right now in the west than even a white person in any Asian country both politically and economically.
But you'll never make that video because it doesn't pander, does it?
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God, everyone in this comment section is so cucked. Barring the Xinjiang incident, you just have to look at how the Chinese treat all foreigners in general. Let me tell you, the Chinese treated a whole lot better right now in the west than even a white person in any Asian country both politically and economically.
But you'll never make that video because it doesn't pander, does it?
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dorgesh
The relationship between the US and east Asia is very strangely colonial in nature despite the US defining itself as the reaction against colonialism at the time. For instance the colonisation of the phillipines, the invasion of China in the eight nation alliance against the boxer Rebellion, and the forceful reopening of Japan's borders by the US Navies commodore Mathew Perry
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The relationship between the US and east Asia is very strangely colonial in nature despite the US defining itself as the reaction against colonialism at the time. For instance the colonisation of the phillipines, the invasion of China in the eight nation alliance against the boxer Rebellion, and the forceful reopening of Japan's borders by the US Navies commodore Mathew Perry
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Medusa
America has a horrific history when it comes to those considered unacceptables. Even people who would normally be considered white (Irish, German, Italian etc) couldn t catch a break. This is nothing to celebrate or take pride in! America must take a progressive account of past and present actions against humanity within their borders.
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America has a horrific history when it comes to those considered unacceptables. Even people who would normally be considered white (Irish, German, Italian etc) couldn t catch a break. This is nothing to celebrate or take pride in! America must take a progressive account of past and present actions against humanity within their borders.
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quangluu96
I remember learning about this dark time in US history. The feds were confused on what skin color to assign the Chinese. I read about a story about a women who applied for citizenship but was denied because she isn't Caucasian, but another Chinese was approved because she was Caucasian enough.
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I remember learning about this dark time in US history. The feds were confused on what skin color to assign the Chinese. I read about a story about a women who applied for citizenship but was denied because she isn't Caucasian, but another Chinese was approved because she was Caucasian enough.
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TwoPercentGaming
It's past dark bits of history in the U. S like this, the Japanese-American incarceration camps, and many others that are so heartbreaking. It's so frightening to see how easily people fall into somehow forgetting that everyone's human, everyone has a family, feelings, and rights.
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It's past dark bits of history in the U. S like this, the Japanese-American incarceration camps, and many others that are so heartbreaking. It's so frightening to see how easily people fall into somehow forgetting that everyone's human, everyone has a family, feelings, and rights.
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Dexter
as a Chinese, I always knew of this act but never knew it had something to with the national security issue back then, which is still being used as a convenient excuse today, 100+ years later, to ban China-related stuff
I guess history goes in circles
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as a Chinese, I always knew of this act but never knew it had something to with the national security issue back then, which is still being used as a convenient excuse today, 100+ years later, to ban China-related stuff
I guess history goes in circles
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Samuel
We must never forget the countless suffering and discrimination those minorities under systemic racism, let's pray for a world without racism and everyone could live happily together, thanks TedEd for bringing this topic up
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We must never forget the countless suffering and discrimination those minorities under systemic racism, let's pray for a world without racism and everyone could live happily together, thanks TedEd for bringing this topic up
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