The dark history of the Chinese Exclusion Act - Robert Chang

Can you talk about Angel Island. As a Chinese myself, I want people to know more about how harsh it was for my ethnicity

they worked harder for less money and ppl were mad at that??

The 1906 San Francisco created a lot of devastation, but there was one upside. As a result of the fires, the records at the City Hall were destroyed. This created a backdoor, and Chinese residents were able to claim citizenship and bring their relatives over.

Obviously it was a matter of National Security to keep China out
CHINA IS ATTACKING THE USA RIGHT NOW, Training (to takeover from within) on every US base per US news a month ago.
TURN BACK TO GOD AMERICA
GET HOME IMMIGRANTS WHILE TRAVEL IS ALLOWED

Trade is technically
Not living by the work of your own hands as God intended.
God wants people in their true region rural growing and storing food for 7yrs stored up.
THINK God

CHINA is rome
Romes hammer
USA is Babylon
USA repent
Repent to Jesus
Ask Jesus to heal you from the covid19 testing and shots.
USA is at war on US soil with Rome/China/UK/Canada/Mexico etc....
TURN BACK TO GOD AMERICA
THINK GOD!

The Africans at least got the justice they deserved. The Chinese were just swept under the carpet.

I didn’t learn this until high school

Now America is sanctioning China and its companies because of "security risk" We all know why US is trying to stop China from progressing by banning Huawei and other chinese companies and also asking its allies to ban Semiconductors. Americans will never learn from history.

The US is made up a lot of culture

We need to make any form of “rounding up to camps” a world wide thing of the past a world wide crime in international law——- NO GROUP EVER SHOULD
BE ROUND UP FOR HOW THEY WERE BORN ITS SICKKKK

This was the United States' solution to reduce the number of murders of Chinese by the white claim jumpers during the Gold Rush. Japan doesn't admit to the massacre of the Chinese in Nanking before WWII. The US doesn't teach the Chinese Exclusion Act in the US. Maybe Japan and the US hope history repeats itself by not teaching these past events.

يعني امريكا باكت كارلفونيا من المكسيك
وجابت الصينيين بفلوس التراب لخاطر يستخرجون الشغلات الثمينة بكارفونيا
واستباحو قتل الصينيين بعدها !!بلد الحريات!؟

As an Asian person, I am sad and angry that it took so long for the people of America to see that the law was unfair.

Dam. Where's the demon of reason when they need him

The USA stole California from Mexico in 1848

it is slowly starting to happen again in 2023

So where is my reparation?

not allowing someone to reenter when they were already in the US before is crazy, but I do think immigration limitations are ok.

He wasn't a gangster wildly shooting in the street tho

"They call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it"

White people are the worse back then because why do they feel threatened by other nationalities l🤬😡😤

Looks like we get head tax soon too

There are a lot of dark chapters in the histories of USA and UK violating human rights, not even known by most of their citizens.

this is not an issue. it's not like China allwed Americans to come there at the time or now.

the time will come when the west, europe will fall, it has begun already you just don't know, China, Asia is rising, and is the future, whatever you like it or not

The US is revitalizing xenophobia, Sinophobia, racism, Japan-panic (but with China), Red Scare and Cold War all at once in its new edition of China-bashing…

I didn't see this in my history classes in America as well






I wonder how much America is hiding

My Great Great Grandfather helped build the transcontinental railroad. He was a Chinese immigrant and was not paid. If he requested payment he was beaten and threatened.

russia was always totalitarian state with mass ethnic cleansings. but america never stopped immigration from russia
and this is western values!

We need to bring this law back to make it safer to drive in California.

As of today 2023, I'm a Chinese American and still facing a lot of racism at work, or even job opportunities. E.g. employer will hire someone with no experience than me, I have worked in restaurants all my life and still didn't get a chance to get a interview.

America built themselves on immigration Alone. The country was opened for immigration and it's the immigrants who are the Americans now.

My understanding of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act was that it stemmed from the 1849-53 California Gold Rush, and was exploited and inflamed in wake of the Union Pacific Railroad construction between 1863 and 1869; most of the labor of it (at least the western end) was done by the Chinese; the Irish were mostly excluded because they demanded higher wages. Things came to a head in San Francisco in 1877 where the Irish laborer Dennis Kearney harangued crowds with his chants of "The Chinese Must Go!" A sympathetic government in D.C. responded with the passage of the act five years later. (I am a grandson of a Cantonese who came to California as a so-called "paper son" in 1911).

White man in the comments "but, but...I don't have any previledge"

TED-Ed 的免费教育动画现有中文版!

This is the "no dog and Chinese allowed" sign in a bruce lee movie

Just don't go to America, i mean what America offering so fantastic then we must go there

What white people don't understand is that whites also immigrated to america.

I wish I was asian

I really hate being white

Another story of american slavors, nothing to be really surprised

I'm chinese and, at least i don't live in the US. Though this is a serious issue that continues today even if in lesser degree.

I always knew about the Japanese interment camps, but this was totally new to me. Thank you TED Ed, for giving spotlight to all corners of history.

The best part is racism is still alive and well all you have to do is watch the news and China is a bi-word for threat, worry and fear even though America is about to put us in WW3

Very important thing to be taught. America was made by everyone. Literally, from everywhere. This should be the only nation who merits that whole heartedly.

My Chinese paternal grandfather never wanted to tell this small, large part of history and part of his life to my Dad or to us, his grandchildren, the reason why he had fled the United States until he came to live here in Guatemala. He only said that he had been fleeing the United States because he never liked it, but the reality was different and today I found out from this video.

This is why we must make sure our countries' governments are non corrupt. Pushing your people to immigrate always risk them being discriminated against. Cant even finish this video