Chinese Immigration Into America
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Surprisingly, Asian Americans have been in America for over 150 years.
They are as diverse as the immigrants from Europe, ranging from China, Japan,
Korea, Cambodia, Korea, Philippines, India, Vietnam, and Laos. (Takaki, page 8)
When many people think of American Immigrants, Asians are on the last of their
lists. In The Uprooted, Harv ....
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.... was
because of the myth of the Gam Saan ("Golden Mountain.") Other reasons were
due to overpopulation, poverty, hunger, flooding, high taxes, bad economy,
collapsing government, and crop failure. (Takaki, page 38) James Marshall
discovery of gold in California in 1848 prompted many Chinese to take a sojourn
into America to get rich quick. A young man in Canton wrote to his brother in
Boston saying, "good many Americans speak of Californi ....
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Number of words: 1454
Number of pages: 6 (approx. 250 words per double-spaced page)
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