what was the reason that the chinese immigrated to the united states?
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Looking for a free America. The American dream, that anyone can become anything. Great opportunities. New beginnings. America is the Melting pot of the world. In search of a new life!!!
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It is incredibly hard for Chinese citizens to get visas out of China because the government doesn't want citizens to leave the country. Most Chinese want to leave China because there are just so many people and too little opportunities. School is highly competitive and those who don't make it to the top are considered nothing. People with a steady job are getting paid less than $125 dollars a week to do hard labor. Health care is based on bribes and under the table money. Societal problems include the one child policy, the inferiority of women, and the lack of personal freedoms. \n\nChinese want to leave China and come to the US, but it's just not possible. The US doesn't want a billion Chinese on its soil taking away jobs and putting Americans out of work. Plus the American society isn't ready for a massive migration from any other country. If the government allowed easier exits then everyone would want to leave China and head for America. There are those who make it out of China and eventually to America, but staying here is another obstacle.\n\nConsulates and embassies deny a visa because they are afraid that if they allow exit, then they might not return. That's the main reason.
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chinese american from northern california  I believe
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Paleo-Indians, and it is thought that people from China and surrounding Asian areas also migrated to the West Coast before Native Americans...
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I think you should read more about US history. The US is constituted by immigrants from the beginning. Immigrants make this economy to keep its flow. I agree with you in the fact that immigration increase the criminal rate, but think about the millions of dollars that they contribute to the US because they can't recover the amount for retirement because they don't have a legal residence. We shouldn't discriminate this people, because the fact that we are living by the legal way and they don't, it doesn't mean that they are less than we are. Human beings are the same in China, Japan, and Cuba or in the US. They have a family to feed, and I'm sure that in this case you'll fight to give the best to your family, even if this implies you to migrate to another country. You have to be grateful with God for give you the opportunity of living in a country where you can find a good job and obtain a fair remuneration for what you do. You should be more empathic with this people. Just in case I want you that know that I'm a US citizen and I don't have any problem with immigrants; my family have lived in the US since 1732, when Remy Poisot (born in Dijon, France) Sergeant of the Marines was assigned to the Natchitoches Post, LA.
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I thought all those who left to work here would be welcomed as heros when they returned home.  But from what I hear that's not  the case.  Millions have left which means more open space, more food, water, jobs and less crime for those who remained.   One Mexican after being deported returned home, was told by his fellowman that he wasn't welcome, they feared he'd take their job.   Does that sound familiar?  He said he'd head for China.
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Yes. Ask the Chinese Governement/ Chinese.\nThere are related issues.\n\nthen you will know why.
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The answer could be answered in many ways. First, that whole area belonged to mexico at one time, and the big guns came over and took it by force, just as they did to the American indians. Remember, Canadians could come into the U.S. as they wish, and so can we enter Canada as we wish. I don't see why Mexicans can't come into this country to work those jobs that Americans won't do, because this administration, as well as past ones, have outsourced miilions of jobs to other countries, like China- a communist nation that has vowed to overtake us in the future. And the list goes on and on. So there is no quick solution to this problem, as long as we have governmment that cannot govern, and people that were once immigrants themselves, opposing the rights of other people to live a better life....KECK
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I think I would show the statistics for "people studying Chinese in the US is drastically on the rise" and information on the WTO.  I would spell out US (United States), WTO (World Trade Organization), and HK (Hong Kong).  Why do you think the trend toward learning Chinese, French, or German is on the rise among young Chinese Americans?  There are a few points you could elaborate upon with statistics or background information.
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The disappearance of the American Melting Pot. When America started, people came from all over the world to create a better way of life, to become Americans. The immigrants would work hard to learn English, to get jobs, to become strong citizens that wanted to help create an even better America. Now immigrants come and want the benefits of being an American without becoming an American. It doesn't seem like anybody wants to 'melt' into the American society. They want to be separate but equal. Don't get me wrong, I am proud of my German/Welsh heritage, but I fly an American flag in my front yard, not a German or Welsh flag. I live close to the border with Mexico, driving around some areas you find it hard to tell you are in America, Mexican flags fly everywhere, marquees at school are in Spanish, more and more billboards are in Spanish. It used to be the special store that had a sign that said "Habla Espanol", now it's hard to find a clerk that doesn't have an accent so thick you can understand them. \n\nI'm not a racist or a redneck, in my family there are Latinos, Tunisians, Blacks, Russians, Irish, Scottish, Apache, Welsh, German, Cherokee and Chinese. Talk about a melting pot! Our family get togethers look like a UN meeting! My point is, if you want to become an American, become an American. If you want to keep your native identity and culture, maybe you should have stayed home.
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All and most came here legally.  It took time but my grandparents did it.  They did not want to begin their life in a new country starting out illegally.  Yes, they had the opportunity to come here illegally.\n\nThe American Indian migrated here from Asia.
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who cares about the mexicans, the chinese are holding more U.S. currency than any other country in the history of the world, i'd be more worried about them deciding we're not chinese enough (since they pretty much own the U.S.)
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About 14 million people immigrated to the U.S. between 1910-1920, with the pace slowing considerably in the mid-to-late-1910s because of World War I. The most immigrants came from Italy, with other southern and eastern European countries such as Germany making up the remainder. Very few people came from Asian, South American, or African nations due to immigration quotas.
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Americans lie,cheat,steal anything goes, They don't trust asians in general as they don,t trust others races such as the indiguos "American Indian" they were treated by European decendant americans worse than black slaves! Yeah I know about cooly labor and slaving out the irish in the mid 1800s! Do you think you can find any other race then asian working for Asian employer say in Chinatown in San Francisco? Yet there are state and federal laws against discrimination, and yes it works against them cause americans won,t hire them! What about the one where China discovered America first, i have known one american indian family that had slanted eye features! The truth!A family that went by the last name of Blazedel spelling could be wrong!
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What is here? Do you mean how to find immigrants to the United States? If that’s the case, it all depends on when. Need more information to answer with any depth.
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The reasons for this "Great Migration," as it came to be called, are complex. Thousands of African-Americans left the South to escape sharecropping, worsening economic conditions, and the lynch mob. They sought higher wages, better homes, and political rights
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that may be part of it but the main reason is because a LOT of rich business men who own big companies use cheap, immigrant workers rather than pay decent wages to American citizens.the same reason big business has moved to China,India,etc.