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another interesting thing: NYT mentioned the Chinese Exclusion Act...apparently around 300 MILLION Chinese were in China in the 1850's...and just 23 million "Am
by onetimemanytime 7y ago
another interesting thing: NYT mentioned the Chinese Exclusion Act...apparently around 300 MILLION Chinese were in China in the 1850's...and just 23 million "Americans" in USA.
Would America had looked more like China if no check were placed on immigration from one particularly huge country? Sure travel costs, but as long as fees were paid via labor, people would have financed it. And the word would have spread that there's money to be made in USA...
- fuckyah 7y agoI say what say I
- Gigablah 7y ago> Would America had looked more like China if no check were placed on immigration from one particularly huge country? You mean, like the United Kingdom?
- simonsarris 7y agoNote that the US is a much more "German" country than English or even UKish, by numbers. Ben Franklin even wrote about it, wishing that the German and Swedish immigrant numbers were decreased in favor of UKish immigrants, noting that their numbers were eclipsing the English. Before world war 1, lots of the USA spoke German, some places much more than English. Then sentiments... changed, towards anglicizing the country.
- onetimemanytime 7y agoOr maybe Tibet? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinicization_of_Tibet#Population_growth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinicization_of_Tibet#Populati... A nation of 22 million was well advised to be careful
- bobbiechen 7y agoI recently learned (from a Ken Liu short story) that in the gold rush era before the Chinese Exclusion Act, 28% of Idaho's population was actually Chinese. Link below describes in more detail. http://nwasianweekly.com/2009/07/historians-track-chinese-history-in-idaho/ http://nwasianweekly.com/2009/07/historians-track-chinese-hi...