After watching the videos and reading through the articles, this is what I think, when I was a child I heard a few small details about the interviews before being accepted to emigrate in the United States. Because my family is Asian, but when I finished watching the videos and reading the articles, I knew that what I had known was too little. After the Exclusion Act, China was the first country to be excluded. And they are not allowed to immigrate to America, moreover the white people do not have sympathy towards them. A good example of that is “The Chinese are uncivilized, unclean, and lthy beyond all conception without any of the higher domestic or social relations; lustful and sensual in their dispositions; every female is a prostitute of the basest order.”
As for the Chinese, when they know they can no longer immigrate. They go through other countries to go to America!
For me the feelings I can feel are the severity of that time on entry, I find it a lot more comfortable now. I can see the fatigue and hard work of the Chinese people and more than that, a lot of people can say that immigration and living in America is very good. But that doesn’t mean it will be easy, because there are people who have to be away from their families for a very long time.
From the texts, I read about the Exclusion Act and it was ridiculous way for the government to prevent non-white immigrants, mostly Chinese people, to migrate to America at that time. Today, you can see how Mexicans are being unfairly treated as well and this shows how history repeats itself because the problematic leaders do not learn from their mistakes. The insults and dehumanizing statements made about Chinese immigrants shows the true character of the people who say those things.
Hi Rathna Begum,
thank you for your comment!