[QUOTE='[ToRn];25959475']I don't feel comfortable exposing things about me on the internet, no matter if it's just age. I don't even enjoy telling what country I'm from. Hence why I didn't mention my age before. But due to viewing many posts from this forum, many, if not most users here, seem to be still in their teens and in highschool. Won't say my age, But let's just say I graduated from Highschool years ago. I may not be ancient, but according to my knowledge, I'm older than quite alot of facepunchers, or atleast make up part of the population of mature users here, so I can safely assume there is a good chance I'm older than most of the users I come across.
Also, If you think a post which contains nothing but "Really?" in asking whether or not someone looked but cartoons of something makes sense, that is something I will never get, to me, that's a pointless post. I'm done here, not coming back to this thread. I'm not gonna argue about who's older than who or who's more mature than who. This argument already counts as thread derailing.[/QUOTE]
Mikfoz has come back from the grave.
Sure it's probably something that America or Canada isn't proud of but that was more than a century ago. I say for get about what happened then and be happy we don't have things like that today.
The act was passed primarily because...well, many West coast residents at the time didn't really think highly of them, but labor unions argued that industrialists were using the Chinese to keep wages low and working conditions poor. If you look at it from the perspective of the former, it'd look like straight up race discrimination. From the view of the latter however, it seems like a necessary evil to improve working conditions.
But according to the article, the Japanese quickly took the place of the Chinese as low wage workers (If I interpreted that correctly), some even progressing higher up the rungs of society but even then they had immigration limits imposed on them in 1907. Most of the immigration exclusion acts seem like xenophobic bullshit really.
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This image is hilarious.
Socialists : greatest threat to the United States since 1882.
Odd, one of my friends is doing this for a project.
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This image is hilarious.
Socialists : greatest threat to the United States since 1882.[/QUOTE]
I believe that's the point. I don't think they liked any of those on the sign, but still only refused to let chinamen in.
It's like the White Australia policy, which is a big reason why we became independant of the UK. Yeah thats right Australia was formed on convicts, then seperated from the motherland by racism. Eek
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