Chinese Immigrants In Canada

The Racism of Chinese Immigration in Canada
Nowadays, Chinese immigrants are all over the world, and they work across various industries to serve the country and the public. However, not many can imagine how difficult of a condition the Chinese immigrants were forced to live in in the late 19th century. The racism summarized in the television broadcast “Chinese immigration: Not welcome anymore” causes me to think deeply about humanity, especially why the Chinese immigrants were treated with inequality and abandoned after they served the country. This will be made clear through the acts of injustice, prejudice, and dehumanization revealed in the video.
In 1880, the Canadian government brought thousands of Chinese laborers to build the Canada
More explicitly, the Canadian government treated the Chinese workers as slaves. They did not care about the health condition, the work environment or the safety. From the television broadcast, Eve Savory says:" Something likes one in ten died due to malnutrition, exhaustion, accident and murder"(Savory, 1997). I cannot understand why the Canadian government was indifferent of those poor Chinese workers, and it makes me feel resentful. The Chinese workers worked at the west side of Canada Pacific Railway project, which is "Not only was the land in this area was mountainous and rocky, making the work difficult and dangerous, workers were often in short supply" (UBC, n.d). This frustrates me that the Chinese workers were doing the most dangerous and difficult job without necessary supplies. I cannot see any difference between the Chinese workers and slaves, poor living environments and poor health conditions, and the fact that both workers routinely endured dangerous work environments and lacked any safety equipment. The Chinese workers may not have been in captivity by the Canadian government like the slave owners were in custody of the slaves, yet for all that, the Chinese workers were enslaved by the Canadian government. Therefore, the dehumanization of the Chinese workers by the government reveals how it
More categorically, "Even before the CPR was completed, many among the white population feared that the unemployed Chinese workers would not only take jobs away... by bringing their wives and children to settle in Canada (UBC, n.d). According to the television broadcast, Eve Savory says: "So in 1923, Canada has past an extraordinarily racist law known as the Chinese exclusion act"(Savory, 1997). I cannot agree what the Canadian government did and it makes me feel sympathetic to chose Chinese workers. Before the "Chinese exclusion act", they still have slightly chance to reunite with their families if they could save enough money to pay the head tax to the Canada government. However, the "Chinese exclusion acts" reject their hope completely. They never had any chance to bringing their wives and children to them and even may not have chance to see them again. This makes me remember there were has another group of Chinese workers suffering in same situation in New Zealand history. In comparison, the New Zealand government also have some relevant anti-Chinese laws to treat the Chinese immigrants (Te Ara, 2012). Such as poll tax, denied all the permanent residency requires from Chinese and stop Chinese to naturalisation. The similarity of those Chinese immigrants is they were rejected by the local society when the government no longer need those cheap laborers.