HIS312H1 Lecture 9: Lecture 9
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Lecture 9: the anti-orientalism and a white canada policy. Politicians and public officials were afraid to say anything against the anti- oriental movement. Chinese were willing to work for half the wage of white men, white people worried about the chinese taking all the jobs. People believed them as a threat to white women because most chinese immigrants were male. Believed they should be denied citizen r ights, and even the chinese children born in canada, they were vulnerable to deportation (being sent back to asia) Chinese immigrants could have no political power, people lobbeyed to adopt whites only practices. Organizations t ried to call for an end to immigration and to enfore deportation. And in 1903 the government said no chinese could be hired to work in bc mines. You cannot be chinese and have a r ight to cut trees. Ottawa didn"t permit the chinese the vote in elections.
