Filipinos are known to be Americanized, going deep into the American culture. Filipinos feel as if it is right to be this way since they are in America and want to connect with the culture. In America they still wanted to fulfill their dreams. In, 1898 Filipinos became a US territory, then this is what brought Filipinos come into the US. They came into the US ready to work as agricultural workers, which is something the economy needed. Then they traveled up and down the west coast harvesting crops. There were back breaking jobs with low wages that these Filipinos were ready to do. When moving back and forth, Stockton was the center of agricultural activity. Skid row was closest to home town; oriental quarter is where Chinatown was. Chinatown …show more content…
The early people that decided to come were young single men. These men arrived in style, you would imagine them to be movie stars that dressed and wore their smiles with pride. They cared about their appearance and prided themselves in the way they look, dressing flashy to be seen. Their suits were flashy, just like the actors in movies, even though most were laborers. They felt as if this was done, they would fit the American culture. They wanted the big dream which included cars, clothes, money, and gambling. Even though men were trying to live it up in the states, Filipino women and children were not encouraged to come. Filipino men grew to marry people from other places, whites in Stockton were shocked that they would date white women. This caused a lot of racist anger. Riots between whites and Filipinos began to arise. There was a bombing in Stockton targeting Filipinos. Filipinos were not allowed to go on the other side of main street, they were not allowed in the center of the movie theater, this went on through the 40s and 50s. This is where racial construction began, whites began racial superiority in
The first reason the United States should have annexed the Philippines is because it is our duty to as a country to spread the values of democracy overseas. For example, as stated here in Albert J. Beveridge’s campaign speech he says, “ Do we owe no duty to the world?… it is ours to save for liberty and civilization (Doc B).” He is saying that it is our duty as a sovereign nation to help an uncivilized nation modernize, industrialize, . another example, is from William Mcki...
Following the Spanish-American war it thought that it was America’s duty to help them form a civilized society. In reality it was the idea of imperialism that if we did it before with Hawaii why we can’t do it again with the Philippines.
Chinese first established their community in Los Angeles at today's El Pueblo Historical Monument. About two hundred settled by the year 1870. This number gradually increased over the years when the Southern Pacific began to construct a railroad from San Francisco in the 1870s. They were farm laborers, servants, road builders and small shopkeepers. Even with heavy discrimination during this time, Chinese held a dominant economic position in the Los Angeles laundry and produce industries for several years. Due to this old Chinatown explained its' boundaries eastward from the Plaza across from Alameda Street and grew to a population of over three thousand.
...nese immigrants that came to America in the mid 1800’s came for the same reasons as every immigrant group, dire situations in their native lands and the opportunities for economic prosperity. Having escaped their misfortunate pasts, the Chinese immigrants took the opportunities afforded to them in the gold mining fields and on the railroad tracks. Providing a much needed labor force to America at the time, the Chinese would never get their just credit. Instead they would be discriminated more in the years to come. Acts such as the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 would greatly reduce the number of Chinese immigrants allowed to come into the country ("The Chinese," n.d.). Coupled with measures put in place by the state of California such as the “Anti-Coolie Act of 1862”, the Chinese immigrants faced humiliation after contributing so much to the United States of America.
California was becoming known for its entrepreneurial opportunities; soon many were coming to California, not to work in the mining filed, rather to set up business and cater to the mining communities. Soon there were saloons, hotels, and red light districts spread throughout San Francisco and outer mining communities. Women who were forced to rely on men to support them back home, came to California and were able to work and support themselves in these towns.
The 3rd wave of Filipino immigrants (1945-1965) who migrated to the U.S. were referred to as the “Military men”. They were Filipino natives and Filipinos in the U.S. who joined the U.S. Navy and Army in the 1940’s to fight in the war against the Japanese in WWII. Most Filipinos worked as stewards and storekeepers in the U.S. Navy. As members of the U.S. Armed Forces, they were allowed to become citizens and many of them brought over their wives to America after WWII under the War Brides Act. In 1941, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802 prohibiting racial discrimination in employment and demonstrating American democracy to people of different color. In 1946, the Congress also passed the “Luce-Cellar Bill” which extended the citizenship to Filipino immigrants and permitted Filipino immigration to the U.S. by 100 people a year, according to Cordova. After the war, due to America’s colonization of the Philippines, English had been the language of instruction in schools and a reflection of high degree of assimilation of Filipinos in the U.S. Also, most Filipino immigrants who speak Tagalog, or any other dialects, could also speak and understand English very well. In the book Filipino Americans: Transformation and Identity (1997), Maria Root says that “Filipinos possess a colonial mentality after being colonized by Spain for over 300 years and the United States for 50 years. As a result, they perceive themselves as inferior to their colonizers, the Anglo Americans and the Spaniards” (p. 201). The second generation of Filipino Americans began to emerge by 1946 and more than half of the children of Filipino immigrants were offspring of biracial unions. The second generation Filipinos grew up in a world of prejudice. They were ...
Anxiety and affluence are terms that are often applied to the post war decades in an attempt to define them. The newfound wealth that Americans enjoyed after World War II wrought changes on the American social landscape that many may not have been able to predict. The push for heavy consumerism that accompanied the sudden upswing of the U.S. economy gave way to concerns about the decay of moral character in the American home. Increasingly filled with anxieties over the ever-present threat of Communism, which most Americans were aware was an issue they themselves could do little about, the population instead turned towards new distractions, such as television, to attempt to reclaim some sense of dominance in a world they no longer quite recognized. The failure of the device to soothe the nerves of anxious Americans can easily serve as a symbol for any case in which American prosperity increased, rather than alleviated, post war fears.
During the Gold Rush of 1848-1849, California began to experience a large wave of Chinese immigration to the United States. Stories of the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill drew thousands of Chinese immigrants into North America from various parts of Asia. These immigrants, who were primarily poor peasants, flooded the “Golden Hills” we know as California in pursuit of better economic opportunity. To fill in the needs of the increasingly widespread mining communities in the West, many Chinese immigrants ultimately became merchants, railroad workers, agricultural laborers, mining laborers, and factory workers. Throughout the Gold Rush, members of the Chinese labor force played significant roles in both the social and economic development of the American West, particularly with regards to the construction of the transcontinental railroad.
they arrived in America they have struggled to reach their vision of the American Dream the Asians have been faced with gigantic obstacles that were standing in their way of their American Dream and for the most part the obstacles have came from the people and government of America itself the people and government have passed acts and accused the Asians of being spies during world war two they have also tried to stop Asians Americans from getting jobs for the most part America’s people have been the biggest obstacle for the Asians Americans reaching their American Dream they have done everything in their power to stop the Asians Americans heck they have even tried to stop the asians from getting education yet through all it all the Asians have achieved their American Dream because they had two things patience and never gave up.
The Philippines played a larger part in the Spanish-American War than most may like to believe. The Philippine-American War as it could be called is forgotten to most everyone in all of United States Military history. The events that occurred in the Philippines could be mildly compared to the events that occurred nearly seventy years later in Vietnam. The reasons for the war occurring at all are directly related to the Filipino’s attempts to gain independence from Spain. Lead by Emilio Aguinaldo, the Filipino people fought for one year for independence from Spain with a shortage of weapons, ammunition and food. A treaty with the Spanish Authorities was forced in 1897, and Aguinaldo and his government were forced into exile with payment of four hundred thousand pesos. American Consuls residing in many Asian countries, as well as Hong Kong, where Aguinaldo was exiled to, agreed with Aguinaldo to give the Philippines independence, as long as they helped the United States defeat the Spanish. Commodore George Dewey of the United States Navy was to lead Aguinaldo back to the Philippines. He only brought Aguinaldo back to Luzon, the northern-most island of the Philippines. Dewey continued to refuse to support Aguinaldo now though, and Aguinaldo once again controlled the Philippines, which was still under attack by Spanish forces.
Immigrants came to America from their homeland for many different reasons that were shared equally among men and women of the time. “Faced with poverty, limited opportunity, and rigid class structures at home, families dispatched members to work in the United States and send money back” (Through Women’s Eyes, Pg 404). In addition, according to Through Women’s Eyes, other women also came to the Unites States as wives or to become wives, to join husbands who had migrated before them or to complete marriages arranged in their homeland. They believed that the United States could provide them with a productive land, paying jobs, freedom of life and expression, and good schools for their children. Reasons for coming to America were financial, others political, others were too personal while yet others were religious, whatever the circumstance was; the United States was becoming a mixture of different cultures.
The Spanish had maintained colonial authority over the Philippines since Ferdinand Magellan laid claim to the islands in 1521. For over three hundred years the Spanish government, aided by friars from the Catholic Church, used Manila as a naval base and cultivated the hinterland as a source of cotton. Filipino aristocrats across the archipelago learned Spanish, and helped to disseminate the Catholic faith to the majority of animists and sabians — worshippers of the moon and stars. Although many friars were seriously engaged in helping the Filipino peasants, over time they gained a reputation for exploitation and corruption. In response to these grievances and to an absence of representation in the colonial legislature, community political leaders began in the early 19...
They, like many other immigrants, also wanted freedom and independence from colonial rule. According to “Philippine Independence from the Americans,” the Filipino people did not feel as if they had the freedom that they desired and consistently revolted against the Spanish rule during the 19th century. Because of many failed attempts and tragedy from the revolutions, they would have to find a new way to break free from the Spanish colony. During the Spanish-American War in 1896 the Philippine citizens seized the chance to help Americans win the war in hope that they will win the freedom that they longed for (“Philippine Independence from the Americans”). The success for the Americans became a gain in the fight for independence for the Philippine country since the Spanish were no longer in control of the Philippines due to the Treaty of Paris in 1898 (Asis). However, as the freedom they sought for was still not entirely given to the people, the Philippines would be trapped in yet another war within the next coming
We did not think it mattered! Who needed the "right" car, family lineage, the "right" education, domestic helpers--basically the "right" everything? We perceived all of the above as parts of the pretension of the Philippine society, yet it was so easy for us to ignore and dissociate ourselves from it because we were the products of this "right" term. We could deny the class system and insult it because we were luckily born into the advantageous class, and we had these "right elements" accessible to us. If we became tired of the society we could complain about it or excommunicate ourselves, but since we were considered the "privileged class" we could always return and the level of respect would still be there. We were in a no lose situation in this respect.
There were several policies in place at the time, some which were put into place before the war, some during the war, and some after. The ratification of the annexation process was long and difficult. There were debates as to how to treat the Filipino people. One suggestion was to treat the Filipinos as dependents, and not citizens, like the Native Americans came to be treated. Many of the imperialists believed that the Filipinos were savages and harsh policies would give America control. The anti-imperialists were not exactly sure whether to treat them as peers or to set them free. I would treat them as equals, as normal people, as they are like everyone else. At the time they might not have been as technologically advanced as we were, and their government may have seemed primitive to ours. I think we should have worked with them to help create a government, rather than occupy and just take over.