>If I went to live there, I would not be counted as a minority even though NZ is really small with few people. It's sun resistance which gets them excited.>
Doesn't it hurt when you face mild discrimination? Slavery must have hurt a little more.
Do you also know that the Asian exclusion act essentially shut off Chinese immigration till 1940s
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and Indian immigration till 1965?
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The Act controlled "undesirable" immigration by establishing quotas. The Act barred specific origins from the Asia–Pacific Triangle, which included Japan, China, the Philippines (then under U.S. control), Siam ( Thailand), French Indochina ( Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia), Singapore (then a British colony), Korea, Dutch East Indies ( Indonesia), Burma, India, Ceylon ( Sri Lanka) and Malaya (mainland part of Malaysia). [14] Based on the Naturalization Act of 1790, these immigrants, being non-white, were not eligible for naturalization, and the Act forbade further immigration of any persons ineligible to be naturalized. [14] The Act set no limits on immigration from the Latin American countries. [15]
In the 10 years following 1900, about 200,000 Italians immigrated annually. With the imposition of the 1924 quota, 4,000 per year were allowed. By contrast, the annual quota for Germany after the passage of the Act was over 57,000. Some 86% of the 155,000 permitted to enter under the Act were from Northern European countries, with Germany, Britain, and Ireland having the highest quotas. So restrictive were the new quotas for immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe, that in 1924 there were more Italians, Czechs, Yugoslavs, Greeks, Lithuanians, Hungarians, Poles, Portuguese, Romanians, Spaniards, Chinese, and Japanese that left the United States than those who arrived as immigrants. [16]
The quotas remained in place with minor alterations until the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. |
