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The Chinese, on the other hand, received the greatest burden of racist bile from Europeans and Americans in the state during the nineteenth century. Federal law denied citizenship to the Chinese and restricted the immigration of Chinese women. State law limited marriage between Chinese and other groups. In addition, primary sources document day-to-day acts of cruelty inflicted on the Chinese. Nevertheless, these immigrants arrived by the thousands, worked hard, and helped build the state from its very beginning.
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Prejudice and discrimination against the Chinese began to break down with repeal of the exclusion acts in 1943, when China and the U.S. were wartime allies against Japan. Today, the overall condition of the Chinese American is vastly improved. There are still... many changes that need to be made. An article in Newsweek reported the following facts about San Francisco's Chinatown: (1) the unemployment rate was 12.8%, compared with 6.7% for all of San Francisco and 3.9% for the entire U.S.; (2) the density rate was 885.1 people per acre, about 10 times the average for San Francisco; (3) the suicide rate was three times the U.S. average; and (4) 67% of housing was substandard, as compared to 19% for all of San Francisco.
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The purpose of the Chinese-American Intercultural Network is to provide a place for the GW community - students, professors, etc.- of Chinese ethnicity and interests to share ideas, experiences, etc. in a common environment.
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Although small, Seattle has a very rich Chinese American history. As a side note, Wing Luke, who was elected to the Seattle City Council in March of 1962, was the first Chinese American to win a major elected office in the continental U.S. He was killed in a plane crash but was expected to have risen to higher office because of a brilliant reputation. Then, of course, in 1996 Gary Locke was elected governor of Washington. He was the first Asian American governor in the continental United States.
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Others have pointed out that although the percentage of females and family based households was small among the early Chinese immigrants, this was a pattern characteristic of much of the contemporaneous American West. We know of no good statistics regarding the number of Chinese who eventually returned to China as opposed to those who stayed, but Whitlow (1981 quoted in Praetzellis and others 1982) has specifically argued that the hypothesized sojourner mentality is an illusion and many of the Chinese immigrants came as settlers (... see Choy and others 1986).
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