There are some arguments made that the Chinese were different and came from a foreign land and the way they look. That is the video Carved in Silence shows propaganda of Chinese people came to the united state because of gold but also the western expansion of the railroad, working in the fields, and working in the fishing industries. Also because of the depression, the Americans made the Chinese exclusion act that doesn’t allow Chinese immigrants to come to the united states. Chinese people couldn’t.
That the Chinese communities came up with a strategy where the cooks for the angel island put secret messages underneath the dishes they serve to the people in prison. I don’t want history to repeat itself and we need to realize what is for us a generation where people could be treated respectfully without there skin color. Yes, there might be some connection because of how people treat each other cause of there skin color where it happened in the news where president Trump blames Chinese people because of Covid-19. That I was shocked were in the video it talks about how much Angle Island has an impact on Chinese American where they suffer so much to come to the united state and to live here.
I totally understand that they viewed the Chinese immigrants as different. What I don’t understand is why they viewed ‘different’ as ‘bad’ and why they felt the need to discriminate because of that difference. I would want to learn from the people who are different so we can work together to get the best of both worlds. E.g. if aliens came to earth we would try to learn from them, not just treat them like dirt.
It’s appalling how Chinese immigrants are treated and are harshly rebuked. They did not do anything to deserve being treated like this. They are just people, they are human like everyone else