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	* Many social tensions between native-born and immigrants. * Many Chinese workers in the West were discriminated against in wages and employment conditions. * Some labor movements/unions formed to oppose Chinese immigration. "No variety of anti-European sentiment has ever approached the violent extremes to which anti-Chinese agitation went in the 1870s and 1880s. Lynching, boycotts, and mass expulsions…harassed the Chinese." ~John Higham, Historian, 1963 * Immigration redefined concepts of race and citizenship in US. For example, the Chinese presence blurred lines between European ethnic groups and reinforced the "white" classification.
			An Example of Nativist Stereotypes:
				Excerpt from San Francisco Real Estate Circular, September 1874 All comparisons between Irish and German immigration and that of the Chinese are unjust. The former make their homes here, buy farms and homesteads, are of the same general race, are buried here after death, and take an interest and aid in all things pertaining to the best interests of the country. The Chinese come for a season only; and, while they give their labor, they do not expend the proceeds of such labor in the country. They do not come to settle or make homes, and not one in fifty of them is married. Their women are all suffering slaves and prostitutes, for which possession murderous feuds and high-handed cruelty are constantly occurring. To compare the Chinese with even the lowest white laborers is, therefore, absurd.
				A Labor Unionist's Phobia:
				"Both the intelligence and the prosperity of our working people are endangered by the present immigration. Cheap labor... ignorant labor...takes our jobs and cuts our wages." ~ Samuel Gompers What fallacies can you spot in that statement?
			A Truly American View:
				“Remember that when you say, ‘I will have none of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange,’ you have denied America with that word.”                                                               ~ Stephen Vincent Benet