issues in American like for example, Chinese American that is being treated unfairly instead of treated equally like not getting any help from the police. White privilege and the impact of oppression and racial issues in American is a serious issue because classiest, poverty, white privilege involving Chinese American, historical reference, racial issues with Chinese American, important areas of social justice, and opposing factor.
Classist, poverty, and white privilege exist between Chinese American and White American. For instance, there is a good example of poverty, white privilege and classiest between white American and Chinese American in the book called ‘Increasing Multicultural Understanding’ by the author named Don C. Locke and Deryl F. Bailey that explain the disadvantage that Chinese American have against White American. For starter the book introduces, “Owing to laws not changed until as late as 1940, some states that forbade Chinese to go into many occupations (e.g., dentist, chauffeur, pilot, architect, and teacher) carved out an economic niche for Chinese Americans.” (Locke, 2014; Bailey, 2014) This is one of the reasons that Chinese American have as a disadvantage for competing high career occupation against white American and white American that have high career occupation is considered to be white privilege for having the advantage between Chinese American And white American. The book also introduces, “Chinese American that became laundry operators and restaurateurs; they opened garment factories, novelty shops, and grocery stores because many jobs demand a good command of Standard English, Chinese American has often been excluded.” (Locke, 2014; Bailey, 2014) This fact that shows examples of the list for low career occupation that Chinese American work as their career occupation of not having enough Standard English and not knowing enough Standard English is the classiest between Chinese American and White American. Another example in the book introduces, “family members are expected to work harder than outsiders and are often underpaid because it is the family’s business, thus, and low pay, hard work, and long hours are part of the economic reality for many Chinese Americans.” (Locke, 2014; Bailey, 2014) This example shows the poverty that Chinese family are suffering because the disadvantage that Chinese American have for their low career occupation for being underpaid and work longer hours compare to white American that have high career occupation that get high salary and less work hours.
A historical reference that white American made a huge impact of oppression against Chinese American.
The book called ‘Increasing Multicultural Understanding’ by the author named Don C. Locke and Deryl F. Bailey have some major historical reference, laws, legislation policy, program and important people that brought their attention to people in order to bring this information to public awareness. For instance the book introduce an important people, “For example like Daniels (1971) noted, “the movement soon developed an ideology of White supremacy and Oriental inferiority that was wholly compatible with the mainstream of American Racism” (Locke, 2014; Bailey, 2014) Daniels brought the people to their attention and try to inform to society about the problem with white American having absolute supremacy against other racial ethics like for Chinese American which is consider to be a racial issues and discrimination in America. The book also introduces, “A series of business setbacks and the completion of the Union Central Pacific Railroad in 1869 made jobs scarce because the Chinese represented a large percentage of that working force, the white workers began to see them as an economic threat.” (Locke, 2014; Bailey, 2014)This is one of the causes for impact of oppression and the reasons that job became scarce after a Chinese American started working on completion of the Union Central Pacific Railroad that lead to White American discriminating against Chinese American and started …show more content…
oppression. The book also introduce the impact of oppression, “A good example is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 suspended the immigration of Chinese Laborers for ten years, and it also officially prohibited the state or federal courts from granting citizenship to any Chinese person.” (Locke, 2014; Bailey, 2014) The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 is the result that white American try to oppress Chinese American because of the discrimination that White American have against Chinese American for causing job to become scarce and consider Chinese American to be an economic threat.
A good example of racial issues and entail in American like for starters Chinese American that suffered racism from white American. The book named ‘Increasing Multicultural Understanding’ by the author named Don C. Locke and Deryl F. Bailey introduce examples and the cause of the racial issues and entail in American that involve in racism between the Chinese American and White American. The book introduce, “That to ensure that Chinese cheap labor would be temporary, governmental policies that limited the immigration of the workers’ wives and families, banned their ownership of land, and disallowed their marriage to white women.” (Locke, 2014; Bailey, 2014) This is a good example of racial issues that the government try to segregate between Chinese American and White American by making sure that Chinese American would not be allow to marry white American in order to ensure that Chinese American would continue with working in cheap labor . The book also introduce, “A law that was passed (later declared unconstitutional) that taxed Chinese miners in 1852, the Minter’s Convention banned all Chinese, and hatred of the Chinese grew in cities and mining camps.” (Locke, 2014; Bailey, 2014) This is another good example of a racism against Chinese American by taxing them for working in the mining labor and banning Chinese American because the white American consider Chinese American to be treat in economic and job opportunity that involve in cheap labor. The book also introduce, “The persuasive attitude of the dominant culture that culminated in the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 which is the only federal statute to deny citizenship to a people because they were consider undesirable.” (Locke, 2014; Bailey, 2014) This is a one of the major example of another racism act against Chinese American that tries to deny their citizenship by using the Chinese Exclusive Act in 1882 because the government does not think that is necessary to have Chinese American become a United States citizen.
The important areas of social justice for white privilege and the impact of oppression and racial issues in American like for example Chinese American. The book named ‘Increasing Multicultural Understanding’ by the author named Don C. Locke and Deryl F. Bailey introduce examples of important areas of social justice for white privilege and the impact of oppression and racial issues in American that involve in Chinese American. The book introduce, “Chinese American was robbed, beaten, and tortured, for no reason.” (Locke, 2014; Bailey, 2014) This is one of the reason that the important areas of social justice is significant because of the unequal treatment between Chinese American and White American that police is not doing anything about the Chinese American being robbed, tortured, and beaten, for no good reason. The book called ‘Social Welfare a History of the American Respond to Need’ introduces, “In San Francisco, where many Chinese lived, the police and the courts were quite severe in arresting and sentencing the Chinese for crimes such as gambling, prostitution, theft, and disturbing peace.” (Stern, M. and Axinn, J., 2012) It is true that Chinese American committed a crime, but White American committed more of these crimes which is another good reason that the important areas of social justice is significant because Chinese American being arrested and sent to jail more than white American despite that white American have committed more crime. For example an online article called ‘Ending Child Poverty’ introduces a good statement like for starter, “Fine and Jail sentence were usually stiff and not comparable with those imposed on non-Chinese defendants including children” (Children’s Defense Fund, 2015). This is a statement that contains a good reason that the important areas of social justice is significant because the statement is explaining that non-Chinese defendants is suffering less unfair treatment than Chinese American like for being fine and sent to jail. White privilege and the impact on oppression and racial issues in American have controversy or opposing factor and issues.
For instance the book called Reading for Diversity and Social Justice by Maurianne Adams has some example for controversy or opposing factor and issues like white American denying that they are gaining special privilege instead they are also suffering in poverty like any other racial ethics. The book introduce a good example, “For instance approximately 13 percent including white American of the American population that is, nearly one of every eight people in this country that live below the official poverty line (calculated in 2004 at $9,645 for an individual and $18,307 for a family of four.)” (Adams, 2013) This is a good fact and proves that show the arguments that white American stated about denying that they are gaining special privilege because thirteen percent in American population including white American is also suffer in the poverty line instead of gaining special privilege. A article online called ‘A Called to End Child Poverty Now’ also introduce more example, “for instance an estimated of 3.5 million people of whom nearly 1.4 million are children experience in any given year and approximately one out of every five children, which is 4.4 million in the United State under the age of six live in poverty including white American.” (James, 2015) This is another good proof and fact that show the point of view that white American stated about
denying that they are gaining special privilege because one of every five children which is 4.4 million in the United State of American under the age of six is living in poverty including white American. Another online article called ‘Child Poverty’ introduces, “regressive changes in governmental tax policies and the weakening of labor union over the last quarter century have led to a significant rise in the level of inequality between the rich and the middle class including white American and children.” (National Center for Children in Poverty, 2014) This is a good argument that proves that white American stating about denying they are gaining white privilege because of weakening of the labor union and change in governmental tax policies cause the increase of inequality between middle class and rich class including white American. The conclusion that I decided to make that could resolve this problem about white privilege and the impact on oppression and racial issues in American by making every races or racial ethics has equal status by implementing a law that support race or ethics that lack the disadvantage. The law that could help every racial ethics with medical or financial problem to counter the disadvantage that they do not have likes, for example white privilege that some white American has in their lives. For instance the medical program if every racial ethics cannot afford to pay for the medical bill and financial program in order to help support every racial ethics that that has family with issues for their expense in food and shelter. Hopefully this law that I created would be able to help support every race or ethics that lack the disadvantage for medical and financial problem that could resolve the issues with white privilege and the impact on oppression and racial issues in American.