5:50 No, that’s not why. It wasn’t bc the test creators were writing questions from a white “perspective”. LOL. There is active discrimination on behalf of blacks and against Asians and whites at many many universities. THAT’S what this was about. And because Asians are considered POC (not white is what they mean basically), they can get away with complaining about the discrimination. White folks wouldn’t get anywhere pointing out that they are being refused entry or required to have higher scores based on nothing more than their ethnicity.
The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years. The law excluded merchants, teachers, students, travelers, and diplomats.
While ethnic discrimination without a doubt played a part in some areas of this act, most of this came as a result of tensions between China and America, as well as economic considerations. Chinese were methodically sending migrants here to work, obtain payment for work, and send money back to China, removing it from the American economy, which was on shaky ground and tiny compared to today.
It’s always easy to look back on a people’s actions in the past and judge it with today’s standards and the benefit of gained knowledge. It’s not a fair or intelligent way to judge the actions of those in the past. Some things are so horrific that no context or nuance matters, but most things are far more complex than our simple privileged modern sensibilities give them.
New Zealand had a Poll Tax imposed on Chinese who came to New Zealand to work in the Sth Island gold mines or wherever they happened to be working, they weren't allowed to bring wives in case their population overran New Zealands. Recently, New Zealand has formally apologised to those people. "Parliament passed the Chinese Immigrants Act, which introduced a 'poll tax' of £10 (equivalent to nearly $1700 today) on Chinese migrants and restricted the …"
5:50 No, that’s not why. It wasn’t bc the test creators were writing questions from a white “perspective”. LOL. There is active discrimination on behalf of blacks and against Asians and whites at many many universities. THAT’S what this was about. And because Asians are considered POC (not white is what they mean basically), they can get away with complaining about the discrimination. White folks wouldn’t get anywhere pointing out that they are being refused entry or required to have higher scores based on nothing more than their ethnicity.
The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years. The law excluded merchants, teachers, students, travelers, and diplomats.
While ethnic discrimination without a doubt played a part in some areas of this act, most of this came as a result of tensions between China and America, as well as economic considerations. Chinese were methodically sending migrants here to work, obtain payment for work, and send money back to China, removing it from the American economy, which was on shaky ground and tiny compared to today.
It’s always easy to look back on a people’s actions in the past and judge it with today’s standards and the benefit of gained knowledge. It’s not a fair or intelligent way to judge the actions of those in the past. Some things are so horrific that no context or nuance matters, but most things are far more complex than our simple privileged modern sensibilities give them.
New Zealand had a Poll Tax imposed on Chinese who came to New Zealand to work in the Sth Island gold mines or wherever they happened to be working, they weren't allowed to bring wives in case their population overran New Zealands. Recently, New Zealand has formally apologised to those people.
"Parliament passed the Chinese Immigrants Act, which introduced a 'poll tax' of £10 (equivalent to nearly $1700 today) on Chinese migrants and restricted the …"
1700s views on blacks bc Asians were completely reverse of reality
as an Asian, I apologize on behalf of other Asians for just trying harder in life.
Sincerely
Asians