Chinese and the Hardships

The Chinese left...and took a journey across the ocean to get to America. A land of freedom and opprotunites is what they have heard about America. so they decided to take a chance and leave their miserable life and try something new. There homeland was filled with many hardships such as not getting enough to eat and discriminating acts towards the Chinese. Steven Baige (ND) states that:

IN 1950 Chinese communist forces invaded thelong establishment independent and sovereign country of Tibet thus beginning a long and agonizingly brutal occupation. As the Chinese occupation increasingly and systematically began denying traditional Tibetan cultural expression and religious practice, tens of thousands of Tibetans refugees began to leave their occupied homeland in search of political and religious freedom in the neighboring countries of India, Neepal, Bhutan, and Sikkim. This outward flow increased dramatically after the 1959 independence demonstrations and subsequent deadly Chinese response and crackdown. Though risking death, capture and torture, tens of thousands of Tibetans.

He is saying that the Chinese left because of how they were treated against by the people in their homeland and because they wanted political and religious freedom so they left their homeland and went to America to find better opprotunities since they heard so much about it and how great it is, but they didn't know that it was all just a lie and that America is just the opposite of what they have been saying about it.

Anyways...The Chinese faced much work. Suffering from the discriminating and offensive acts towards them. The Chinese found a job that they were accepted in. Was this true? The whites hired mostly Chinese because they worked harder than the whites and they have lower wages and needes than the whites so the railroad owners considered them a, 'good deal.'

After the California gold rush, the Chinese found work in the railroads. They where hired by many whites which made the white laborers angry because, 'Chinamen are coming and taking over our jobs.' They thought that the Chinese came to steal their jobs but they were really just trying to earn a decent living building railroads.

Many Chinese died from building the railroad, and as if that wasn't enough, the whites burned the Chinese homes down, and persuading Congress into passing the many laws prohibiting the Chinese from immigrating to America such as the Chinese Exclusion Act, Geary Act, and the Scott Act. Many of these such laws didn't allow the Chinese to immigrate to America and to get anything out of living in America.

The Chinese worked long and hard building the railroads for the whites and the whites didn't treat the Chinese nearly as well as they treated them. They were more offensive and hard on the Chinese when the Chinese came for work and because of the California Gold Rush.

The Chinese were the only group that put any sort of effort on the railroad. The Chinese were hard workers so that's why many white railroad owners prefer them than the whites because they knew that they were cheap so they could afford them, instead of paying a white man to do the same work for much more. The Chinese thought that they fitted in with the whites but they were just using them because they were cheap as in objects not human beings.

Many Chinese and whites did get along for a while because they wanted to make the railroad perfect. This picture shows that the Chinese and the whites digging tunnels on the snow and this is just the beginning of the construction of the Central Pacific.

The Chinese built the Central Pacific Railroad which you can see in the picture above. You can tell that they put in a lot of effort to make it look that good. As you can see, the railroad isn't done yet because their were very Chinese building that railroad.

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