The Unorthodox Culture Of Chinese Immigrants - 1439 Words

In the 1800’s Polygamy was a matter of other cultures and was not part of the United States. When Asian descent people started to arrive at the United States, citizens were concerned that their influence would start to shock the nation and animosity towards these people started to grow. The unorthodox culture of Chinese immigrants to allow practices of polygamy and prostitution was an important factor in federalization of immigrate law and laws subduing polygamy (Abrams, 2015). During this time the civil war started to rage in the middle of the century over the slave debate. Prostitution and polygamy were then critiqued during this time as a â€Å"slave-like† mentality (Abrams, 2015). The 14th amendment gave all persons born in the United†¦show more content†¦The reason why women were so discriminated against was the threat of reproduction. Women who were subjected the most to discrimination were the ones without children or husbands since they were understood as possible prostitutes. It didn’t just start with the Page Law however when it came to discrimination based on culture/race. There are accounts of anti-Chinese clubs being formed by miners in the 1850’s and 1860’s (Abrams, 2015.). The Burlingame Treaty was a treaty to attempt to bring additional workers in from the Asian region. The Treaty was made in 1868 to provide immigrants a pseudo citizenship in matters of trade, curiosity and allegiance (Abrams, 2015). The problems were that after a mass number of immigrants came to the United States the stock market crashed, and miners started to lose money (Abrams, 2015). Labors then started to link the economic depression to the mass amount of immigration from China (Abrams, 2015). While the link may be arbitrary, there were still concerns since immigrants took work for small amounts of pay and Coolie Labor made low wages possible (Berkwitz, 2007). Coolies were indentured servants under contracts for various tasks. This made animosity towards Chinese even worse as wages and economic depressions slowly ate away and the pockets of