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Journal 11/3
How are Asian Americans different from the other minorities we have discussed?
What do you think contributes to these differences?
Journal 11/5
Imagine that you are a Chinese immigrant; why did you immigrate? What challenges would you face unique to your country of
origin?
Asian Americans
Chinese Americans
First Chinese came to America as ‘coolies’:
1840s is 1st big wave of___________b/c:Chinese forced to pay
special mining______.
Refusal could: Cali passed a law to
keep:
Not all Chinese Were Miners…
Starting in 1860s many Chinese were:Worked for the:Pay was 60%:Worked______jobsChinese virtually
excluded from:
Chinese also work as cooks, farmers & ___________
The First Forbidden Ethnicity
1882=Chinese Exclusion Act b/c:Banned immigration
for:1902 bans
immigration:Lasts until 19__
This is the 1st time in US history:
Chinese AmericansMost populace
country in the worldExclusion Act:
1882Bans Chinese from
immigrating for ________________
Repealed in 1943
100,000 Chinese immigrate to US every year
ChinatownsFor generations,
Chinese were:Chinese ghettosFace the same
problems as:1)2)3)
Chinese immigrants are starting:
San Francisco is largest Chinatown in the world
Family and ReligionIn the People’s
Republic of China religion is:
‘modern’ Chinese American families are ________________ from white counterparts except for discrimination
Do not accept questioning ________ authority (traditional)
Pick a word you think describes an important aspect of your personality, (religion, race,
ethnicity, political affiliation). Now imagine everyone who identifies themselves this way is
segregated from the rest of the American public. You are isolated behind barbed wire
fences w/out the benefit of charge or trial. Do your feelings change about the US? How?
Why? Why not?
Journal 11/12
Japanese Americans
ImmigrationFew b/f 1885 b/c:Treated similarly as
the __________; B/c immigration is so
recent the four terms describe:
Gentlemen's Agreement:
Alien Land Act (1913)1)2)3)
WWII/Pearl HarborJapanese attack:
1)Sparks _____________
Americans start to fear Jap.-Amers. are _______
Executive Order 90661942/FDR removed all ppl from:
considered to be _______3)No ______ ordered this
The CampsAre these relocation
camps?Jap.-Amers did not
____________leaveCharged with
_______________Could not:
Did get paid BUT:Dependent on gov’t for
1)2)
Japanese Americans remain loyal to _____
The CampsSCOTUS ruled the camps ____________________ after 3 years
In 1983 talks of reparations begin gov’t should pay $20,000
to:&
Apologize
1988 Regan signs:Reparations are not paid
until_____/200 survivors die a month