Chinese Head Tax

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Richard A

 

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February 15, 2014

 

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However, the rising head tax did not stop Chinese people from immigrating to Canada altogether. Finally, the Canadian government introduced the Chinese Exclusion Act on July 1st 1923 that banned all Chinese immigrate from coming. Canadian government viewed this as important because they wanted to maintain their “ethnic composition”, in other words, other countries’ immigrates would destroy the Canadian society that is mainly made up of British and French...
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Canadian government viewed this as important because they wanted to maintain their “ethnic composition”, in other words, other countries’ immigrates would destroy the Canadian society that is mainly made up of British and French. In addition, the Canadians refused to accept Chinese people because they feel that cheap laborers are no longer needed upon the finish of the CPR, and they fear that the Chinese “would compete against them for other [white-collar] jobs”(Counterpoint, chapter 1, A Different Canada)...
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