This is a letter discribing the hard time and disrcimination she and all Chinese have faced when they immigrated to America. Many of the times and types they discriminated was when they burned the homes of the Chinese down and the times when the whites laborers killed the Chinese because they thought that they were stealing their dreams and work.
Chinese Dreams Fulfilled?
Have the Chinese dreams been fulfiilled? No! they haven't because they came for the politicial and religious rights just like an regular American, but they didn't, what they got was racist hate and discrimination by the white laborers.
Chinese Restrictions
Many laws were passed against the Chinese so they didn't have an easy time immigrating to America. Such laws were like the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the Geary Act. Many of these laws prevented the Chinese immigration to happen anymore. This was unfair to all the Chinese who worked so hard to get here.
Chinese and the Gold Rush [frustrations]
The Chinese came to the United States because they thought they would get religious and political freedom. They thought this because of "The New Colossus," by reading this they figured that when they get to the new world they would and could get the rights and that the new world wanted them.
Chinese and the Railroads [hardships]
The Chinese took a brutal quest to get to America, where their dreams were not met for some, some where lucky enough to open their own business and in those days it was the laundry business. Many others took difficult lives working on the railroads.
Hakim Rewrite on the Chinese
This is a chapter rewrite based on the difficulties and lives of the Chinese. Where they came to find work and where there were many laws preventing the Chinese from immigrating to America. Where the white laborers influence Congress into making the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
Chinese Chapter
The Chinese came to America because they heard of it having lots of gold and opprotunities. A place where they wanted to get rich and have a happy life, but that was not what they found in America, they found a lot of hardships blocking their path to success.
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