The dark history of the Chinese Exclusion Act - Robert Chang
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- Dig into the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which suspended Chinese immigration to the U.S. and blocked Chinese immigrants from citizenship.
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In 1882, the United States Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, the first federal law that restricted immigration based explicitly on nationality. In practice, the Act banned entry to all ethnically Chinese immigrants besides diplomats, and prohibited existing immigrants from obtaining citizenship. Robert Chang details the lasting impact the Act had on immigrant rights and freedoms.
Lesson by Robert Chang, directed by Mohammad Babakoohi & Yijia Cao.
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I really hate how often the response to this is: "But look what China's doing!" Instead of "We must be better". A lot of people seem to think if something in America is wrong, we just look at a worse country and go: "Oh not so bad". It's literally a child blaming his younger sibling for his mess by pointing out the bigger mess. I hope they don't raise their children like that.
Its become such a trope. People want more focus on our country but then faults show we go to straight to that like you say.
Agreed. What-about-ism, as some people call it, is a sign of immaturity. We must do better. We can be better.
"I hope they don't raise their children like that."
If you mean the US with "they", they actually do, children get teached a very gloryfied version of their countries history in school
yeah.
There are millions of grown ups that react like that and don't accept their error or responsabilities.
"national security" seems like the US' favorite line..
I hear the term daily in HK this year.
I am an American, and I must admit that it raises a very important question: what on Earth _is_ "national security"?
@@Hand-in-Shot_Productions bombing the middle east
@@stevves4647 Quite a modern answer there!
@@Hand-in-Shot_Productions and parts of Africa and dont forget Afghanistan
This is shameful, and I'm glad it's coming to light. They certainly didn't teach us this in school.
I was taught this in school? Wdym?
@@bobwilson679 Depends when or where you went to school.
Because it doesn't matter
@@nolife1199 you're wrong
@@nolife1199 it matters a lot. Kids don't know racism until they're taught it, usually by their parents. It matters that we've had such hypocrisy in oyr history. It matters so that we can know what mistakes not to make again. We can do and be better.
"A matter of national security", sounds so familiar.
Time is a flat circle
Now they say this in China to their own people.
DID ANYONE SAID ANTI-MATTER.....no
@EGGZININ calling him/she a twonge and not even getting the point of the comment. lmfao
@@AverageJoe483 that's what us media has led you to believe
THIS NEEDS TO BE TAUGHT IN MORE SCHOOLS. For all my life, growing up as a Cantonese American I always felt that I Asians as a whole aren’t represented enough in our history classes. Every person of any background deserves to share their story.
I feel like Latinos aren't represented much in history. Also, are the problems facing Latinos lesser than that of blacks and asians? I feel like it is that way, with society focusing more on blm and anti asian hate crimes. Us Latinos also exist!
@@cluckingduck2576 I whole heartily agree with your statement but at the moment it kinda just looks like you're trying to push the main point away
I'm Latina too by the way so I get what you mean, the injustices done to us throughout history are never really mentioned much.
@@flufflecake9232 I wasn't trying to push away from people talking about the video, I just wanted to bring this up as many people were watching the video and going through the comments.
@@cluckingduck2576 Ah, understandable. I kinda meant that with the way people take things nowadays they may have perceived it that way
@@cluckingduck2576 It's not a competition, it's not the "victimhood Olympics". And even if it was, you would loose them, because you weren't slaved.
As a chinese person, it is disheartening to see the struggles our ancestors went through all over the world as immigrants, same here in my country of Malaysia where chinese citizens are seen as a threat and takes the blame for everything, even to today.
But that is the exact thing that makes us so successful, our resilience and drive. Hence, many chinese immigrants find success even in unfavorable situations.
@@siqiweng3188 Please, he never live in Malaysia before, how will they know what we been through? He only look with his White men eyes instead of having empathy!
thank you for bringing us this Kung Fu flu 19.
@@divineintervention6318 You're welcome. Hopefully you and your family receive our gift.
@@divineintervention6318 Good luck getting one lol, we're here to stay and spread our gift
@@tonywang4032
Hatred +1
Processing all hatred derive from this confession alone.
* Processing
(Ding)
Procession complete
Hate +1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+
+10,000 Hatred points and rising.
*"I hate you, but don't go! You are very useful to me and I need a scapegoat to excuse my lazyness!"*
Seriously American history reminds me so much of an abusive relationship but with many different people
But they wanted them to go. They barred them from coming back in.
literally. this is how american treats all its citizens who aren’t white
Sadly, I was never taught any of this in my American history classes in Texas...
American history class will never show all the country's faults...
Actually I was taught this in school.
@@oliviacolas5816 Same, from California
@Pinned by New Money you are on wrong channel scammer
You probably were not paying attention it was in my history textbook. It is not an unknown piece of history.
As someone who is Chinese, it infuriates me how people so often in history and currently blame those of colour for anything bad that happens. I never even knew this happened until I watched this video, which just goes to show how often Asian history is ignored or erased.
@@EzioIlMentore probably because it needs to be addressed and not ignored. Media isn't enough. It need to end
@@fabio_ferrari That's literally whataboutism.
@@curtiswong7280 Is it though? He simply cited another example, it didn't I any way go against or invalidate what the OP said.
@@sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149 Possibly.
@@sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149 He could've mentioned many other cases, but he chose the one case that is directly tied to the Chinese. I'm not saying this was wholly intentional, but it comes out as being less than ideal.
"All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others"
P.D: The animation is very well done. :)
Animal farm
Classic
@@ember_may2 at least in Animal Farm they wrote it down rather than pretending equal is equal
@@ember_may2good book
The relationship between the US and east Asia is very strangely colonial in nature despite the US defining itself as the reaction against colonialism at the time. For instance the colonisation of the phillipines, the invasion of China in the eight nation alliance against the boxer Rebellion, and the forceful reopening of Japan's borders by the US Navies commodore Mathew Perry
Basically ye even today with Puerto Rico
@@icrushchildrensdreams4556 stop spamming everywhere
@@yoyu1001 and Guam and American Samoa. Not to mention how they still have Guantanamo bay occupied in Cuba as a result of them conquering it from the Spanish. And the British Indian Ocean Territory had the indigenous population forcefully expelled by the British at the request of the Americans in the 1950s so they could build a military base there which is still in use and the UN has declared must be decolonised.
@@RealUlrichLeland But not all of the territories (colonies) the US maintain today desire independence. Guam, along with other Pacific colonies, have a considerably higher standard of living than other neighboring island nations. That’s why some of these polities don’t have strong independence movements (that’s not to say _all_ though, some of them like New Caledonia are very close to independence). And that isn’t to say America and France are necessarily “good” colonizers, but from the perspective of the colonies, they would lose more than they would gain from not being a part of a large, wealthy nation.
@@god-bv5wo cry about it
For every USA citizen that feels offended or attacked for exposing the history of racism in his country shouldn't feels that way. There is no country in the world, especially the big once has a clean history.
Talking about the atrocities of the past is a sign of progress and everyone should be proud of it.
Fully agree!
Agree
Agreed
Agree. In my country, talking about it or atrocities now could lead you to prison or death. It is ironic, how I know more about America than my own country.
It's curious how they always bring attention to things USA did decades, even centuries ago (a lot of them already fixed) and completely ignore what bad things said countries did RECENTLY. How the USA wronged China back in 1890s, and not how China is wronging the rest of the world and it's population RECENTLY? (Hong Kong, Uyghurs concentration camps and organs harvesting, invasion of Tibet, threatening Taiwan, The Famine during Mao Zedong, Tianamen Square, and much more). Why only address the bad things of one side, and only the good thing on the other side? The only videos with a diferrent approach where "Hystory vs" they stopped making.
The surname is Chae. He should be referred to as 'Chae' or 'Chan Ping', not 'Ping'. It's like calling Donald Trump 'Do'.
If this is true, then this should get some more likes so the makers see it ~
If transfer his name in an English form, it’s like “Chanping Chae” while “Chae Chan Ping” is exactly how Chinese pronounces and each syllable stands a Chinese character.
The Chinese usually call a person by the last name if they are familiar with the person. So in this case, Chae (surname) Chan Ping's friends & families might call him Chan Ping, Ping, Ah Ping, Siaw Ping, Ping Ping, Lao Chae .... depending on age & degree of relationship.
But agree that in this instant, it might be preferable to refer to him by his surname as is the customary practice for English formal speeches. Unless of course, the author has already written his name in the English style, ie. Chae Chan (name) Ping (surname), in which case he is correctly referred to in the speech by his surname Ping.
chae is the surname in this case. I looked it up on wikipedia, his name was 柴禪平
Literally don’t care
This should be taught in US History and Government classes.
Yeah, seems like we could use another one.
@1350 scapegoating a whole ethnic group definitely doesn’t parallel harassment and hate crimes today 🤡
I actually learned this in a high school history class. It was 20th Century US history.
I live in the South and we were taught about every event of racial injustice that I’ve heard claimed “should be taught in every school”
@1350 did you just say rightfully ignored 🤨🤨
The Three American Lies:
1. "It's not about oil."
2. "We're here as liberators."
3. "An American signature on a treaty is worth something."
4. “On account of national security...”
5. We never lost to Vietnam, we just runaway.
We have achieved a lot in Afghanistan.
7: The "defense" budget is for defense.
8. "America, the land of the free"
I absolutely hate people who discriminate others by literally anything and treat them like inanimate/soulless objects. No one is better than anyone and we should all celebrate our differences and not take pride in other’s unfortunates.
This x1000. Too many people see each other as hive minds who all act the same in their own interests, definitely not the case
This is what US news are doing. They spread propaganda against China. Just look at donald clown. Embarrassing.
@@zabuki1740 ok look no offense but china got railed in the 20th century. Now America is more significant because of china's communist dictatorship
How are you doing Jocelyn ?
you're posting this simply to defend your ilks because you're one of them too.
Ah yes “national security” is what they were worried about. Sure.
that's hillarious, the qing dynasty was literally starting to crumble at the time of the exclusionary act.
yes, much like always, much like china is despite being the one doing military drills and sponsoring coups and dictatorships literally next door.
Imagine work more than the locals, but instead of being well treated, you get excluded from society all together with excuse of being an outsider. It's ironic how the U.S claims to be a stronghold for dedicated work and individual liberty since it's birth, but it choose to create laws that are just as oppresive as the Soviet Union.
In Australia the views and stereotypes about "Asians taking our jobs" are still prevalent. They talk about the Asians "stealing" occupational doctor, nursing and STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) positions. I always have to remind people, if you're studying to be a hairdresser there's no way you will get the same job or pay rate as someone studying to become a doctor. If someone's actually qualified, better at the job than you - then they are going to hire that person, regardless of their race.
The law has been abolished 71 years ago.
Welcome to the real world.
@@andromedamessier3176 So?
@@ryanergo754 because the op acts like the law is still in-affect today. Today Asian has the best stereotype. When dealing with police, they actually got good treatment cause of that stereotype.
This was very satisfying to watch. It's rare to see an amarican documentary about America not giving some sort of vague defence for the country's historically horrendous action. Thank you for the informative video.
Thank you so much. This is a topic that definitely needs to be covered. Asian struggles have continuously been brushed away and this sort of content is extremely important.
So true like American and European ones take like all the shine
Any struggle will be brushed away if they sullied some kind of reputation.
Oh if only there were some THEORY that could be taught to make us CRITICAL of the RACIAL impacts of America's laws and systems.
As an asian myself, I can definitely agree.
@Prince Talleyrand manchus should come back again.
I love how America poses Itself as a defender of human rights whereas America was itself established in the blood of massacred Red Indians and racism runs deep through American blood.
@MassesOfHypocrite war?
@@jury3656 yeah the Indian-American wars 1607-1900 were a series of raids, border clashes, invasions and battles. It’s not that hard to understand
according to your defense china can say it's just war as they rip us to shreds over Taiwan and dismiss it
frankly it's greed and human racism.
anyone who thinks otherwise is part of the problem not solution.
If a criminal changes its way and becomes a cop, are they not now a defender of law?
"Welcome to America: the greatest country in the world"
I think that perception is changing now within America even. A lot of people including acknowledge that most developed states in Europe are much better places to live as compared to US
@@homosapien5156 yeah, but no, Europe is having the same problems as the United States with its middle eastern refugee crisis in which many countries in the EU are reacting the same exact way as Americans in this video.
@@Byotch Yeah. But I refering more towards things like free or reasonably priced healthcare, good public transportation etc.
Germany and Scandinavian states I think are the better places in terms of what you said. Even though lately there have been American like reactions from some people it's very small compared to say England or France.
@@homosapien5156 true I understand, and, your right, healthcare and transportation is much better in those countries at the cost of extremely high tax rates though. So it is a give and a take and I prefer keeping more money to myself to be honest.
@@homosapien5156 it also depends on what you want to work as because it is undeniable that the US has the best colleges and amazing STEM programs and opportunities
It's always a good day when Ted Ed uploads.
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@@voyager8958 LOL
U.S. Government: We welcome all people!
Also U.S. Government: Now that you're here, we don't like your kind of people.
ironic, right?
Hipocresía.
It all just because Chinese immigrant found success man that is like a bully jealous of the nerdy kid at school
It’s their country they can do whatever they want.
they've blurred the lines of being a citizen and their government so much. is it unreasonable to take these measures?
The Chinese exclusion act alongside other discriminatory/targeting bills really goes to show how over the top the US government will go to deal with “threats to national security”. While a small number of these acts did help protect a bit of national security (ie catch spies but this debatable if the number was substantial enough), the damage caused by most if not all of these laws was too immense to be considered collateral. That’s why I think learning from history is crucial for our society as if we erase, alter, or never teach about it, it will be bound to repeat itself.
eh history already repeated itself.
@@Stevie-J It shows some injustices in their part, because some schools do not always taught the full extent, but a glorified version.
Not even sure there was much espionage to be done back then. Well, there were some trade secrets and special crafts like glass making and stuff I think, forget which country it was that was at the peak back in the day, but I think they had other ways of safeguarding such secrets than outright country wide bans.
That said these days there is actually a real threat of odd espionage, I think it's mostly still trying to steal trade secrets, but there are also some people that get arrested for stealing more classified secrets, even some idiots posting them on discord... not that that guy was chinese but others are. That said, still not a great reason to ban all such immigration. Though there is still a massive amount of people trying to get in, many trying to cheat the system I hear, and I don't mean the drug smugglers and stuff.
I feel a theme I’m seeing learning about stuff like this is people are so afraid of loosing power. Losing their high ground, and they would stop at nothing just to keep it. They would kill, threaten, torture. All for power, or at least to keep it.
Wow the animation is jaw dropping and so is the racism
Wait till Americans learn what they did to the indigenous people
Well, some Americans doesn’t know, I have just literal saw a tweet saying that they didn't know that the America colonized Philippines and other countries and how they didn't teach that at their school.
@@lyzhia__.3597 they don't unless you take history as major
@@MaheshAdhikari Umm that’s false. People who didn’t graduate High School nor payed attention in class may not know that. However everyone that does and payed attention learns that. I learned about the US colonizing the Philippines last year in US History (11th Grade).
Wait till the Chinese learn what they did to Uighers
@@weebishusername9288 Wait till Americans realize Muslim countries all support China and the Uighur genocide was CIA propaganda.
Thank you for letting me understand more of my ancestor's history, Ted.
It's also important to note that the Asian Exclusion Act (which is different from the Chinese Exclusion Act) didn't bar immigration from the Philippines since it was a colony of the United States at the time, making them US Nationals instead of foreign immigrants
No phillpines was allowed because they are christian
@@sohamchikte9171 Many other East Asian immigrants were Christian though.
@@user-cr3pn7rk2v yes that's why they are allowed
@@sohamchikte9171 no they weren’t
actually funny thing about the Chinese Exclusion Act is that it did have a loophole and yes, it was in the philippines where the loophole was and no, it wasn't about native filipinos, it was about chinese filipinos in the philippines lol. since the philippines already had chinese filipinos long residing for centuries in the philippines and then the philippines became ruled by the United States that had the chinese exclusion act in effect, chinese migration into the philippines was conditionally allowed for family of chinese filipino merchant families so what many chinese migrants did from fujian province where most chinese filipinos come from was that their relatives in the philippines would legally adopt them lol and use their local chinese filipino family surnames when in fact their real surnames are of a different character lol, so if you go to the manila chinese cemetery for many elderly people born during american colonial era in the philippines, you will see that for many people, their latin letter surname does not match their family name character in their chinese name. also, some families bribed government officials in the philippines to basically buy local hispanic surnames so many ethnic chinese filipino families in the philippines also use common hispanic surnames in the philippines despite technically being pure or majority ethnic chinese lol
This is a reason why I don't favor judicial systems based on precedents. Sometimes a judge's ruling will go against the spirit of the law, and can't be relied on as precedent on a vaguely similar case.
If judges could rule whatever they wanted, what would be the point of having laws then? Only the Supreme Court should be able to declare laws unconstitutional.
The fear of the “yellow peril “ when Chinese became more innovative and successful Usa government felt national security threats, This fear has surfaced from time to time, contributing to the rise of anti-Asian violence in America.
It was because of the virus.
It's not entirely unjustified. In many ways China is a totalitarian state. And it was far worse back in the day under the rule of Mao. Know people who fled the famine. Horrible stuff.
@@sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149 what? Do you mean the anti Asian hate crimes??
@@seieieor186 God no, I'm not condoning hate crime.
I'm pretty sure this comment has been edited. I believe it had other stuff included in it before about China as a nation.
As an Asian person, I am sad and angry that it took so long for the people of America to see that the law was unfair.
Thank you for making this video
When the mightiest Rome laid in dust
Which grave does the mightiest American future lies?
America will have many destinies succeeded by its influenced countries which will grow to destroy China one day.
@@icrushchildrensdreams4556 joke of the day
@@justiceleague9658 at least Americans don’t have to worry about collapsing every 200 years
@@icrushchildrensdreams4556 yep funny huh? No country will destroy America more than itself. From discrimination, racism, homophobics and more. Every few months, another riot pops up lmao.
@@icrushchildrensdreams4556 America was built on the back bone of British technology, is an island country (in a way) with no enemies to bother it, was created less than 500 years ago and had help from France against Britain. Truly amazing how an isolated country in a land full of raw materials waiting to be used would grow to be a super power huh?
As far as I know the US has still to ratify the Humans rights act.
Pog
Bruh what
@@rickrolld1367 is there still the death penalty in the US?
@@momo9594 Yes, and there's still solitary confinement, an even more egregious violation of human rights.
Insanity street here I come!
@@rickrolld1367 well, the US aren't perfect for sure, but there are much worse.
So basically, the Chinese were the "Model Minority" in the 19th century too, working hard and getting rich, but back then, it was a problem since other Americans at the time didn't want to work as hard. Or save as much.
They also drove down wages and working conditions for everyone while also throwing a wrench into the collective bargaining dynamic that was already less than ideal for workers.
@@remembertotakeshowerspleas355 Indentured servitude was also widely used until it was outlawed in 1917, so your claim is more demagoguery than reality. However the hard work of the Chinese did make Indentured servitude more worthwhile for the servitude owners, hence the Chinese and Irish became the default face of such servitude.
@@Zuckerpuppekopf Do you think Chinese slavery somehow didn't have an impact on labor conditions in the US? That business owners and the wealthy having access to almost free labor that they could subject to utterly inhumane conditions without consequence didn't shift the economy in ways that put non slaves in less ideal position than before?
it's still a problem.
@@remembertotakeshowerspleas355 Wait, are you saying that it's the fault of the people who were willing to work hard despite low wages? Instead of rectifying the exploitation and holding the exploiters accountable, you blame the exploited? Did you think those Chinese were so happy and fulfilled living on pennies? What are you suggesting exactly?
Those decisions back then still influence much of the population today. Is it any wonder there is such anti-Chinese sentiment in the US? We need to own the fact that a lot of what we don't like about Chinese policies towards us was in fact caused by the rivalries we put in place. The same thing is happening today in Australia - their relationship with China is a disaster now because of political rivalries causing a change in economic and migration policies. As always, it's the innocent people who suffer.
I think it has more to do with China's communist government than Chinese people. Of course there are, and should be, tensions between democracies and totalitarian regimes.
Ah yes, the “American dream”
TED-Ed should add Chinese subtitles to this video, I’d love to share it to my non-English speaking friends.
You can translate it for them
Our volunteer translators are working on it at this very moment. Hopefully they will be available soon.
@@TEDEd thanks!
Let’s say TedEd made a video on the Berlin Wall and how the German people suffered under Soviet rule, would anger towards TedEd be justifiable for only covering how the German people suffered instead of covering how Germans committed atrocities against the Jewish people? No, it wouldn’t, and I’m pretty sure most people would agree with me on this. Now please keep this comment in mind before making a comment full of whataboutism.
German people suffered because two super powers decided to play political games on German lands.
Not much has really changed with how the West treats China now. I'm sure in 100 years from today we'll look back on our current policies towards China and it's people in much the same way as this video
It's curious how they always bring attention to things USA did decades, even centuries ago (a lot of them already fixed) and completely ignore what bad things said countries did RECENTLY. How the USA wronged China back in 1890s, and not how China is wronging the rest of the world and it's population RECENTLY? (Hong Kong, Uyghurs concentration camps and organs harvesting, invasion of Tibet, threatening Taiwan, The Famine during Mao Zedong, Tianamen Square, and much more). Why only address the bad things of one side, and only the good thing on the other side? The only videos with a diferrent approach where "Hystory vs" they stopped making.
Yup.
China is a murderous criminal dictatorship witch concentration camps, RIGHT NOW
@@enrique5850 ever wondered what happened to the aborigines of the US? You wouldn’t want to know
@@JYGoat and?
Lots of American history could be labeled "dark history..."
Lots of history* could be labeled "dark history..."
Lots of history could be labeled " dark history " ..
@@xinfinity4756 you were 20 seconds ahead of me, we wrote the same thing.
Every history all over the world is dark history in my textbook. I still haven’t learn one good thing that humans have done yet.
@@andromedamessier3176 Create internet?
Hi TED Ed, this is a long time watcher. I've been watching TED Ed video for about 3 or 4 years, and I have to say that I love these videos that use history to show us modern day situations in a brand new light. Keep up the good work!!
"It's a free country!" yeah, right. As a Chinese who wants to visit and maybe stay in America to earn a living, I'm worried about the discrimination I would face but am glad that this issue is being brought to light.
Edit : I'm a Chinese, yes. But I'm not from China. I'm a Malaysian Chinese, so there's no tension between me and the US (hopefully)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests
You aren't Chinese
@@mrgongo4253 nobody said China was a free country, either. OP was simply pointing out he was worried about coming to America for discrimination based on being Chinese. Say what you want about the riots, but those have literally nothing to do with his comment.
(Not to mention, all the police violence that’s been going on in recent American protests kind of defeats your point…)
Don't worry china is taking revenge with covid.
@@naturelover4148 I am. What makes you say I'm not? Oh, because I can type English properly? (if that is how you see it)
There was also a Canadian version of Chinese Exclusion Act.
1924 to 1947....sadly, chinese are never accepted in the new countries, even at present....perhaps they are envies of the chinese resilience and hardworking & never say die attitude...Be proud of being a chinese descend...the dragon blood flows in you....
It is so sad that this anti-Chinese sentiment and propaganda never subsided and its lesson never learnt.
@AMY LAU 'Why would people hate me for things I never even did?' try being blamed for slavery, and colonization, and jim crow and the middle east.
@@wotshish you live in the US. You are enjoying the benefits of being a US citizen, then you bear the burdens too.
@@wotshish :(
@@wotshish are you saying that you face discrimination for being white? I’m genuinely curious because I’m not sure that is what you mean.
@@gadzadhamgaacaan8488 The excuse that people have it worse elsewhere is such a worn out logical fallacy. Faults should be highlighted and improved upon, not hidden and glossed over.
This was the bill in the famous School House Rock skit “I’m Just A Bill”
You should do a video on the White Australia policy that ended in the 1970's
Or how Japan stayed 99% Japanese in the age of immigration
@@h3nry_t122 Yes they did. Have you heard of ww2
@@nolife1199 stop forcing immigration onto countries that don’t want them.
@@h3nry_t122 Yes on all counts, massively so, in Korea and China at first and then across their other conquests in the course of WWII. There were times when German Nazis thought they were overdoing it.
@@nolife1199 a country is supposed to stay homogeneous? What’s wrong with Japan staying with Japanese?
The quote in the beginning sums it up so well;
After all, who is the Statue of Liberty welcoming if there is nobody to welcome?
This is the reason why Grover Cleveland is one of the worst president in American history
Tons of American history lately, and I'm loving it.
I am very disappointed to think that many people in these countries still work hard to get to America. :(
Because the US is very good with marketing, “land of free”, “freedom and democracy “ which none of these is true.
They have a right to restirct to unwanted foreign aliens
@@jaydani1996 they are the aliens
Thank you, TED ED so much for making this video. Thank you.
Hello Chloe how are you doing?
Rather fitting that this is published on July 1st which is Canada day.
In Canada we had a similar law that called for a head tax on every Chinese immigrant, a very shameful part of Canada's history.
Others know not that in this quarrel we perish.
He who knows this thereby has his quarrels calm down.
Anger in excess is madness.
I love my country, but hate my government.
Completely agree.
That's everyone in the world basically(except tribal people).
then change it. DEMOCRACY! PEOPLE RULE!
@@quyenluong3705 watch the D word, we are a republic. When you talk about people rule, you reference rule by gang or mob rule.
@@mr.e2962 oh is that so? that's not what you guys have been preaching around the world. It's all about individual rights. No lockdown because it's limiting the rights of the PEOPLE. blah blah blah.. everything is about individualism! We don't listen to the govnt because govnt has no rights to limit our rights... blah blah blah.
I do hope that the day will come that a country, such as America, will cease to be significant to the world that one immigrant has to endure racism and call it justice.
There were large groups of other immigrants arriving in the USA also. USA was trying to navigate the numbers and create balance. It wasn't racism.
yes it was
Only a small percentage of immigrates were Chinese. A lot came from Germany.
usa is stolen nation, all european should go back to their origin in europe
It was called the (Asian exclusion) act wdym it wasnt rasicm.
@@Anita.Cox.That's USA in a nutshell, always lying
5:30 "it wouldnt be the last time America violated human rights" ... yeah....
And why should there ever be a last time?
We need more human rights violations if you ask me.
Also, I'm voting for Trump, not that you asked.
@@funkydiscogod i'm sorry i have to bring this to your awareness, but in civilised societes, it's generally considered bad to hurt people
@@funkydiscogod come'ere lemme violate your human rights
@@funkydiscogod This is one of those trolls who try to damage the reputations of Trump supporters
@@victoria-ss8sz agreed
The animation for this is so gorgeous
Reminds me of an old political comic that showed americas looking down on the immigrants while their shadows showed their ancestors also immigrated here
When people seem to be wealthier and prosperous, others take it as a serious problem to them and try to ruin the incidents. Benefit and property are the most issue that affect directly to human's action.
Sounds like a big part of reasoning behind creation of USSR.
I’ve been waiting for this video, I needed more info!
Funnily enough Chinese in this country despite all this are now doctors business owners and generally upstanding citizens if only everyone could follow their example
yes they are working their butts of but not very creative , always copying
And yet, here we are again...
See America you've always been this way.
Just Because i love america doesn't mean i support the bad things america did
The Chinese Exclusion Act was the basis of the government’s claim that US-born Wong Kim Ark was not a citizen. The Supreme Court ruled in that case that birthright citizenship was absolute and not affected by the parents’ status.
I didn't even know the existence of the Chinese Exclusion Act until this video. Thanks for always helping me learn new things, TED Ed :)
Hello lee how are you doing?
The Africans at least got the justice they deserved. The Chinese were just swept under the carpet.
No the Africans did not
Still happening, just recently the people of American Samoa were denied access to US citizenship, despite the fact that they are a US territory like Puerto Rico (which does have citizenship for it’s people).
Americans: I don't really want to work in this industry
Immigrant: *Works in that industry with even a lower salary*
Americans: THEY'RE STEALING OUR JOBS!
Currently H1B holder applying for green card, have not been able to apply for a visa to reentry
Haven't gone home for 4 years
Same story still happening
Yep, I am half Chinese and my relatives have not been able to go back for almost ten years now trying to get a green card
Ted Ed’s videos are timeless
The judge just made a plane of his papers *brutal*
And then they dare to ask not to rock the boat and stay "model minority"
The land of freedom...
Or just about every single nation, empire, & government in all of human history.
@@perfectogaming5240 r/woosh "You're not smart are you boy"
@@sebbyramirez2031 keep crying boy 👍😎
@@perfectogaming5240 I insulted your country boy? Are you mad, boy? Sleep, boy
@@lorisperfetto6021 answer the question boy
*"bUt WhAt AbOuT cHiNa NoW?!"*
CZcams comments a bit later.
It's curious how they always scrape the bottom of the barrel, bringing attention to things USA did decades, even centuries ago (a lot of them already fixed) and completely ignore what bad things other countries did RECENTLY. How the USA wronged China centuries ago, and not how China is wronging the rest of the world and it's population RECENTLY? (Hong Kong, Uyghurs concentration camps and organs harvesting, invasion of Tibet, threatening Taiwan, The Famine during Mao Zedong, Tianamen Square, and much more). Why only address the bad things of one side, and only the good thing on the other side? At least in the USA you don't get actively censored and persecuted for talking about it. The people alive today is only responsible for the present, not the past.
do you think your silly capitalization of the rethoric is a valid argument? No.
Ted-ed, thank you. You are important. ❤️
I am very grateful to you because she is really a translator. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
Once I read a tele of Jack London that pictured the situations of how Chineses were treated in the 1800's in the US. I was really shocked for imaging how bad their lives were.
Every culture and people has their bigotry and hypocrisy. It’s only when those cultures come to such power that these elements come to the fore and are used in things like this
Muh bigotry
@@icrushchildrensdreams4556 you realize I’m still criticizing the Americans for this horrible stuff, right?
Thank you for making this part of history heard again.
Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 - June 24, 1908) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and again from 1893 to 1897.
Cleveland is the only president in American history to serve two non-consecutive terms in office.
He won the popular vote for three presidential elections-in 1884, 1888, and 1892-and was one of two Democrats (followed by Woodrow Wilson in 1912) to be elected president during the era of Republican presidential domination dating from 1861 to 1933.
As an EU citizen currently living in Brexit Britain, I simpatize and am fearful of it
It seems the US will never learn from its mistakes…
They don't learn from it because the government doesn't consider it a mistake.
The people know, the problem is the Cancer that is the Senate.
@@yuricahere it was a good decision
@Prince Talleyrand your confusing ethnicity with ideology
@Prince Talleyrand communism in Asia is still a relatively new thing
"the land of the free"
"- is America, the most free nation on earth."
We fought the revolutionary war to be free of the crown. We fought the civil war and paid dearly in lives to free the slaves. We fought the fascists and the communists. And now we decide the bombing kids in syria is "freedom". Still better than 99% of nations, if not 100. We have the first amendment, to my knowledge the only one that has freedom of speech. We have the second amendment, to protect the first. We have rights that no other nation on earth has and we paid for it with blood.
thailand
Lol
Considering what other countries are currently doing with the pandemic I agree that it still is.
This country isn’t a saint but we’re a lot more tolerant.
@@mobilegamesonly3170 glorifying history
i dreamed of living in america when i was in my twenties and after growing up and seeing some facts clearly THANKS GOD i dont want to live in the US anymore
i'd rather live in any other chill and open minded country than america .. actually the idea of living in america scares me now
All countries have their flaws.
To learn American history, you have to take: American history, African-American history, Chinese-American history etc.
When the government stops people from accessing their own property without legal cause, that's already crossing the line.
Thank you for reminding the world of this. From an overseas Chinese.
Okay, owning up to your past mistakes is commendable - I give you that. But what matters much more is whether you can avoid making the same mistakes. Can the US actually do that?
Thanks for sharing this! It is sad to say that violence against asian americans is still accepted by society and people will just let old asian ladies get beaten up in the streets rather than help #StopAAPIHate
5:24 this make me thinking of 吳冠中 Wu Guanzhong's painting style.
When Jimmy Carter met Deng Xiaoping in 1979, Carter, raised the "Jackson Amendment" which was passed with the Soviet Union in mind, and which forced the US government to link trade with communist countries to their freedom of emigration. Deng replied: "No problem. How many do you want?"
Deng insituted the same one child policy that's now wrecking demographic havoc in that country.
Yup. White, yellow thinking v different.
As a young white american things like these make me lose more and more of the little faith I had in my country
Don’t feel bad - every country built from white conquest of foreign lands act the exact same way.
The problem is not the country but those on the top running it.
Lol I love how many people don't know this existed
Would you rather people continue to not know?
Stunning animation!
IR politics aside, what a well-made ed video!!! The aesthetics, the background music, the narration...Keep up the good work!
My Great Great Grandfather helped build the transcontinental railroad. He was a Chinese immigrant and was not paid. If he requested payment he was beaten and threatened.