Magic Washer Analysis
I believe that the Chinese Immigration to the United States jumped from a few hundred a year to move 20,000 in 1852 because of the gold in California. When the Chinese came over to the U.S. they headed to the Gold Country. They would, ‘send work back home about the riches to be found there’. ‘Chinese American miners soon became a common sight in the mountains of California’.
The Chinese immigrants in America faced a lot of harassment/racism in the mid-1800s. A specific form of harassment was financial harassment. John Bigler decided, ‘the Chinese [are] to be a threat to the state’s welfare’. As a result of that, the California legislators passed a tax that took ‘more than half of the average Chinese miner’s wages’. This decision caused …show more content…
The message states that the US doesn’t want or need the Chinese immigrants. In the cartoon it clearly illustrates Uncle Same kicking out a couple of Chinese immigrants. Uncle Sam has this bucket “Magic Washer”. I think that this can be seen a couple of different lights. One is, Uncle Same is washing away(getting ride of) the dirt that the Chinese have brought as well as the Chinese themselves. The text next to the Uncle Same states, “Don’t us this if you want to be dirty.” Another way it can be seen is that the Magic Washer takes care of the jobs that some of the Chinese had. I believe, from prior knowledge, a common job the Chinese took was a cleaner. Since the US citizens have Magic Washer now they don’t need the Chinese to do it for them. Since the Chinese not longer have a job and can’t support themselves, they need to leave the …show more content…
They did this for many reason. Referring back to the beginning of the text, ‘Conditions in China had been growing stable’. As conditions worsened in China, the Chinese heard about the promise of a better life in the U.S. As more and more Chinese immigrates came to the U.S., rumors floated to and word spread back to China about the opportunity the U.S. gave to the immigrates. Some of it might have been peer pressure, going to the U.S. might have meant you have money and therefor power. It might have been ‘glamours’ to the people in your community for you to go to the U.S. This isn’t from the text but in the beginning of the Titanic, all of the people were waving to and happy for the people heading to the U.S. They had a sense of pride for the immigrates. That could have been how it was in China at the beginning of the 1850s. The more encouragement they got, the more common it was to go to the
The Chinese immigrants in America faced a lot of harassment/racism in the mid-1800s. A specific form of harassment was financial harassment. John Bigler decided, ‘the Chinese [are] to be a threat to the state’s welfare’. As a result of that, the California legislators passed a tax that took ‘more than half of the average Chinese miner’s wages’. This decision caused …show more content…
The message states that the US doesn’t want or need the Chinese immigrants. In the cartoon it clearly illustrates Uncle Same kicking out a couple of Chinese immigrants. Uncle Sam has this bucket “Magic Washer”. I think that this can be seen a couple of different lights. One is, Uncle Same is washing away(getting ride of) the dirt that the Chinese have brought as well as the Chinese themselves. The text next to the Uncle Same states, “Don’t us this if you want to be dirty.” Another way it can be seen is that the Magic Washer takes care of the jobs that some of the Chinese had. I believe, from prior knowledge, a common job the Chinese took was a cleaner. Since the US citizens have Magic Washer now they don’t need the Chinese to do it for them. Since the Chinese not longer have a job and can’t support themselves, they need to leave the …show more content…
They did this for many reason. Referring back to the beginning of the text, ‘Conditions in China had been growing stable’. As conditions worsened in China, the Chinese heard about the promise of a better life in the U.S. As more and more Chinese immigrates came to the U.S., rumors floated to and word spread back to China about the opportunity the U.S. gave to the immigrates. Some of it might have been peer pressure, going to the U.S. might have meant you have money and therefor power. It might have been ‘glamours’ to the people in your community for you to go to the U.S. This isn’t from the text but in the beginning of the Titanic, all of the people were waving to and happy for the people heading to the U.S. They had a sense of pride for the immigrates. That could have been how it was in China at the beginning of the 1850s. The more encouragement they got, the more common it was to go to the