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KindAwareness3073 t1_jdhp0g4 wrote

Side note: Many US "Chinatowns" are near the train station. This is because when the 19th century railroads were completed workers were given a ticket to the end of the line, and once they arrived they set up a shanty town that developed into a neighborhood.

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PoopMobile9000 t1_jdhu8ul wrote

Also because cities instituted America’s first zoning ordinances for the purpose of segregating Chinese to particular neighborhoods. Also the Chinese immigrant population was mostly male because the US made immigration rules to prevent Chinese women from arriving.

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opiate_lifer t1_jdihbh1 wrote

As my username indicates I have an interest in drugs, its astounding the amount of outright racism Chinese labourers faced in the western USA. Some of the first instances of drug prohibition were moral panics about white women being lured to opium dens in Chinatowns.

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moal09 t1_jdk5r0h wrote

The Chinese also had trouble finding work as employees, so many opened restaurants, etc.

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