The americans prejudice led to Chinese expulsion act. The americans think the Chinese people were weird.The americans think that the Chinese wouldn’t share some of the gold for the american.In they thought the Chinese people will take all of the gold back to china. The americas think the mean because the are not helping the U.S.A.…
Canada has been through a lot of struggles to become the country it is today. It had specifically had a lot of defining moments in the 20th century. Canada had taken part in a lot of wars and lost many people in the wars they fought. But the wars they fought had defined who they were in a country and how they dealt with it. It showed how they were willing to fight and lessons on what not to do next time.…
To begin with, this event is historically significant because it affected a lot of people. This is evident because it affected all women in Canada. The case gave all women equal rights as men in regard to political appointments. In other words it gave women the potential to become something that they never could have before and it put them one step closer to equality with men. All women in Canada thought of this as a new opportunity to pursue something new in their life.…
Blacks in Canada never amounted to more than one percent of the population. In addition, in Matthew MacFie's account of British Columbia's recent arrivals in 1865, it also showed how Chinese immigrants weren't allowed to work or interfere with the superior race. Chinese immigrants were only allowed to cook, hawk tea, and keep laundries. This further shows Canada did not tolerate for ethnic-diversity. Despite all these controversies, Canadians were not really any less racist than others in the mid-nineteenth…
In twentieth Century, the Canadian government found out the importance to be got rid of American culture. It used three methods to achieve this goal. First, is put their hands on culture protection, use legislations to protect its media, which was known as Broadcasting Act in 1932. In 1968, it took one step further, the media in Canada must be owned by Canadians and the CRTC(Canadian Radio-Television Telecommunication Commission) ruled that during Prime Time(6 Pm to 12 Pm), at lest 50% of programming must be ‘Canadian Content’. The main well, Canadian government put a lot of efforts onto culture study. The Massey Commission in 1951 was the first time that Canadian government took an eye on culture industry and have a conclusion that Government should took actions on to it. Another important study that Canadian government did is the Fowler Committee; it showed Canada’s TV programs were too American. If Canada wants to less American, the government must do something. As results of those studies, Canada put huge budget into culture industry. In 1936 the government started Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, which is founded by the government but not owned by it. The National Film Board aim to help Canadians to make films about Canada financially was formed in 1939. It gives money to anybody who has an idea to make a movie about Canada. The same functional organization was also formed for other type of arts in 1957, the Canada Council for the Arts. Canadian government to protect Canada’s own culture in the twentieth century used those three methods; they work together and did have protected the culture…
During the 20th century, there were many events and situations that helped define the country of Canada. There were positive moments, but also a good amount of negative ones. Of course, the successful events kept Canadians in a positive light, but the negative situations helped Canada learn from its mistakes and went to prove how strong and brave its citizens were/are. The three most defining moments would have to be the Dieppe Raid, the Invasion of Normandy, and the Battle of Vimy Ridge. These three events not only assisted the country to become what it has today, but has also defined what the nation has become.…
First, the Cold War spread fear amongst Canadians due to the constant threat of being bombed by the USSR. Also, Canada was not a good place for communists and socialist to live during the cold war time because of the injustice to them due to their political views. Lastly, the Cold War made the discrimination against women reappear. Today’s increase in hostility between russia and u.s.a has been called cold war II. the inability of the superpowers to solve global political conflicts, e.g syria, has resulted in a massive refugee crisis. Just as in the last cold war, canada has shown compassion and announced that it would accept a large number of syrian refugees. In conclusion, the cold war had a large effect on canada and is currently relevant to today's…
Families were torn apart because the Act also applied to those who had already settled on America’s soil. “Any Chinese who left the United States had to obtain certifications for reentry, and the Act made Chinese immigrants permanent aliens by excluding them from U.S. citizenship” (“Exclusion”). Men had little chance of reuniting with wives from their homeland or starting families in their new homes. It left them with the choice of staying for work or seeing their families again. The Act put a halt on all Chinese growing communities.…
While economic competition was a significant factor in passing the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882, nativism became another influential factor. Americans started to feel threatened by the massive presence of Chinese immigrants in the United States. In Document C, the speech given to the working men of San Francisco was created to encourage Americans that they need to reclaim “their rightful” jobs, and it was proclaimed, “We should all understand that this state of things cannot be much longer endured.” It is evident that Americans are annoyed with Chinese immigrants claiming jobs, and they feel it is their obligation to accomplish their objective of regaining jobs to reclaim their national pride. Another example of nativism is established in Lee Chew’s autobiography.…
The Chinese exclusion act in 1882 mad in so the Chinese immigration of men and women go from 40,000 to 23 a year they did this because the Americans thought that the Chinese were too competitive with work and money even thou they worked for little money. Some people agreed with this act because they also believed that the Chinese were to over powering and over populating the Americans. Americans and other immigrants thought that they were better than the Chinese and Chinese have different cultural differences, but why was the job competition when the Americans payed the chines less money for more work? Americans and Chinese men and women did have different cultural practices. I had to sleep at nights with other boys of the village-about thirty of them in one house the families would stay in the same houses when the Chinese had to move at night and sleep with people that they did not necessarily know.…
Forcing the Chinese people to pay the head tax is a glimpse of Canada’s racist and unjust past. The Canadian government had many hideous ideas in mind to restrict the flow of the Chinese immigrants streaming into Canada. This was evident in the increasing head taxes over the years, as well as the Chinese Exclusion Act. The Canadian government has only begun this long and tedious journey of apologies, reparations, and acknowledging the Chinese people as true Canadian citizens. Canada has much explaining to do, and no matter what the circumstances are, the Chinese people have suffered long enough to earn a few words and actions from the Canadian government. Without any actions being taken or accounted for, many of the Chinese people feel undervalued and not a true Canadian citizen. Canadians should work together and not look at each other’s race. It is a matter of individuality and uniqueness that makes Canada a mosaic of humankind, all part of a whole, a country, who is proud of its colourful and diverse nation, a country that is honoured to be a part of a new civilization. A country called…
This happened after the war when there still was conflict in Asia with regards to Chinese. This was the biggest race targeted immigration restriction event in the history of United States. It was…
In 1882 America passed the Chinese exclusion act which prohibited Chinese immigration from coming to America, and soon after in 1886 the statue of liberty was built. The irony in our copper made beauty is her symbolism to freedom and her light to guide immigrants to a better place but was taken away from Chinese people, and it wasn’t until 1943 in the case of magnuson act or Chinese Exclusion Repeal Act that eventually removed the law altogether, this was mostly due to the fact that America and China became allies for world war one.…
As Canadians having people like Pierre Elliot Trudeau, gives us a basis of what true Canadianism is. Pierre Elliot Trudeau believed that all people are equal and when he was in power during his time he raised the immigration for Canada which allowed and protected a lot more immigrants from different which included more then the nations including the more Caucasian ethnicity like the people from Irish decent or the people of Sweden. A good amount of middle eastern, Asian and even African People came to Canada in this time because they believed and were told that Canada is an open arms opportunity which will accept the good will of people to build the country to be better then ever. Having racism of other ethnicity’s takes away from what is held into our ground of Canadian roots. Our country was built on the back of hard working immigrants. Being from two families of immigrants, my fathers side which helped build the rogers centre and the CN tower this does affect me, I know the stories of the transition my grandparents went through, Canada to them was an opportunity. They left their home in Portugal to come to Canada to start and create a better opportunity for my aunt and father also for themselves. They love Canada because they believe in freedom. If my grandparents tried moving to Canada today in our society they would have been mistreated because of certain Canadians believing that…
Many people came to Canada because they thought it was a country of opportunity to them. If you were to look into Canada’s history, you might say Canada was not a land of opportunity for all groups. Gender, race, religion and education were all very important aspects that shaped Canada’s history. These four categories weren’t respected and treated with care. This is why gender, race, religion and education are still a problem within our country today.…