A “Normal” Day for The Chinese on The American Frontier
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- Опубліковано 13 лип 2024
- Life for the Chinese was not easy coming to America. As a matter of fact it was everything but that. They came to America in search of opportunity. What challenges did they face? Who were the Tongs of China town? What was life like for the Chinese assimilating into the American Frontier? Would they embrace the Wild West?
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So the Chinese were hated on for working too hard? That’s absurd.
Some things never change
History inevitably repeats itself. This is the same story with Latinos working hard for lower pay today.
Yes, they were "stealing" jobs was the complaint
dey took er jeerrrbs
Steal a job ? Europeans work less, it's a known fact , if a team works well we don't change , there's no reason. No , at that time Westerners lived as masters from colonies across the world so he believed himself superior . But taking colonies is stealing .
brutal, the best thing we can get from this history is they showed what they made of
and can be proud of that, being Chinese.
Pride goes before a fall.
@@tonydimartini I guarantee I mog u
This not the only incident. This is a reoccurring trend with American Society.
@@brandonjablasone7544 In every society...we are just the only one that talks about it, and the only one in the history of the world with such a diverse racial mix
This deserves way more views
There is a great show about the life of the Chinese immigrants in San Francisco, & the tong wars. It's a martial arts show based on the writings of Bruce Lee. It's called Warrior, & it has 3 seasons on Netflix. At least in the US.
100% - Fantastic show!
Hope ,Netflix make season 4
Just finished the show last week 10/10 in my opinion
The perfect show to show history
Yes, everyone go watch it. You won’t regret it, sooo good!
I remember reading a book about a young Chinese boy who got caught up in the gold rush while i was in school. It still jerks my heart a bit the tales of indentured servitude and the hard lifestyle of the old times these people laid the foundation of what would become modern America
Book is called coolies
They were laborers, it wasn't only them that constructed it but they did a lot.
@@Surefire346But ppl dont know that and will claim Asians never helped build America
Blek lives matters rather than chinese. That's american human Rights for you
Yes, those brave souls toiled day and night…..They really did build the foundation. 🍃🌺🍃🌸🍃🌺🍃
And now, Americans want to teach Chinese what human rights mean.
Rights are just a word they use to make you think you have something .
Exactly!
In current day yes, cuz CCP has none of dat xD
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@@davids2933 ur boyfriend
The City of San Francisco in Chinese is translated as the Old Gold Mountain seperating it from the New Gold Mountain which is Melbourne. Older generations still call it the Gold Mountain.
San Francisco, is Spanish... it is for Saint Francis of Assisi. Perhaps you meant to say Chinese call SF the new gold mountain?
@@blindvisionary415 we call sf old gold mountain.
@@invisiblian right on, I didn't know that. Thanks.
@@blindvisionary415 you are 110% right those guys are just bugging
The smartest man of the San Francisco gold rush was Levi Strauss . He moved when he heard about the rush because he knew miners would need durable clothing , picks , shovels, pans etc.
Bellingham Washington has a terrible bit of history relating to this. At least a hundred Chinese were contracted to mine in the area, only being paid a small daily rate until the end of the job where they would receive full pay. When the ore vein finally dried up the mine owners dumped rock over the entrance and broke the dike built up on the near by creek and drown all the miners. It's really hard to find this story, I only learned about it from one history teacher who investigated and wrote a couple papers on it
Jesus, that’s another level of cruelty
I know you said it’s hard to find information on this but where can I find these papers your teacher wrote?
yup and people here think it's crazy to think there's any racism against Asians here. they have a tendency to view us as rich people who should be hated and taxed
Chinese laborers were caught sending large quantities of gold back to China hidden in the bodies of their dead. That got a lot of them killed in Southern Oregon near Grants Pass. Two sides to every story usually.
RIP to those
Sorry those Chinese colonizers were mistreated while exploiting native lands.
Just as I was watching a very dramatized show about this time period on netflix. Thanks for informing nutty history !
Warrior? Absolutely amazing show. Sad it only got 3 seasons... Seriously hope @netflix picks it up for a 4th
@mathewanderson7552 yessir, I'm almost done now. Now seeing this v accurate depictions in the show. I hope they do
Hell on wheels is also set in the same era
When people say that systemic racism doesn’t happen amongst Asian Americans, this and the Japanese internment is what I think about.
They got reparations by the way
@@thescoobyshuffle9244 right..$100 in reparations after getting all of their furniture and irreplaceable possessions seized lol
Im pretty sure no one says that. They say it doesn’t occur to the same extent today. No one can claim anything doesn’t happen 100%. That’s pretty difficult to do.
these incidents were a long time ago though, stop living in the past.
The Chinese and the Japanese have a high degree of systemic racism in their own countries. Does that excuse the way the Chinese and the Japanese were treated in the American Frontier all those years ago and during World War 2? No, it doesn’t. The important thing is that people are working for change in America. To be rid of systemic racism once and for all. It won’t “go away” in just a few years or even in fifty years. True change for good takes a long time, unfortunately. Have a good day.
Live in Pendleton and the underground tunnels actually go throughout the city. Was a doctor on the hillside who had a tunnel dug and connected down to Main Street where he could assist to aid the Chinese, very cool history.
This is the most shameful period in American history. The way that the Chinese immigrants were treated and the work that they did that is fundamental in bringing the two halves of our country together... I will forever respect Chinese culture because of this.
They were treated badly, but it wasn't comparable to the genocide of Native Americans, or the enslavement of Africans.
God bless you for that.
I mean... no one forced them come over. Everything in this video was pretty standard immigration policies for the time period. The Chinese took the chance to immigrate to the USA because their home country of China failed to adequately provide for therm.
@@TheGuzeinbuick agree, totally opposite from the Native Americans who got their lands stripped and faced genocide. Or the Africans who were brought across the Atlantic as slaves against their will. I'd say the hostility encountered by the Chinese was pretty mild compared to the two aforementioned groups.
Every period in America is shameful.
Very informative! Thank you!
Good vid. Lots of interesting facts. Very impressed.
Im glad this is finally getting attention. The Chinese Community helped be the infrastructure and culture of he United States.
Works all done. They can go back now. Don’t need them anymore.
@@RobertRitchie-re5pt They too busy building up their own country now.
Incredible how much the Chinese have suffered at the hands of Americans, Canadians and Mexicans. This should be taught in American and Chinese schools.
I was in middle school. I agree though.
Nah not important or significant enough
@@TheGreenSupreme - If China is spying on UA-cam, you may be asked to explain what you mean. I will inform the Chinese government.
Imagine how much the Chinese have suffered at the hands of the Chinese lmao
@TheGreenSupreme the hell? Lol it was brutal
I love the Chinese character in Deadwood. I love that they included him, Chinese people are too often left out of the legends of the American west.
They want to tell kids, America was built by Americans, kindda like the rest of the world as they want make it based on their influence
Please see how immigrant miners were treated in Idaho and, especially, Butte, MT. Anaconda mine was the largest copper mine for decades. Everybody was respected, regardless of race. It was one specific state that behaved this way. Butte also had the longest running “house of disrepute” in the US. My older family passed by there daily and the women were playful and joked with the children. They were not Chinese.
Butte is a great place to visit!!!!
@@tricotdiko1435 my great-great grandparents settled near Butte. The stories from my Granny, great aunts and grandmother are great! I haven’t seen the mine since I was a child and couldn’t figure out why all of the trucks looked so small! The size is incredible!
@@crystalgreen3677 Cool! I met an ancient coot there that styled me with stories from the towns history. Just awesome folks. Come see the Kennecott Mine if you want big!
Does Butte still have brothels today in 2024? If so I'm very interested
@@phillipjordan1010 😂😂…Dumas Brothel was opened 1890ish-1982.
One of the moments I feel sorrow hearing the history of both ends
I spent 8 years by the Columbia River where hundreds of Chinese miner's were drove over the cliff by native Americans...I always thought of them when hiking up and looking down at the river.I always felt bad for the Chinese and their families,and kind of understand how the came to dislike us🤷
There goes the myth of the peaceful Native Americans
@@MetalHead-ks9zq yup....from what I understand they didn't even want the gold they just didn't want Chinamen in their territory 🤷Feels weird standing in a spot knowing the past
Ah stuff like that is never one sided. The chinese arent new to genocide just like europeans arent. Everyone does it, everyone hopes they didnt.
@@MetalHead-ks9zq don’t look up how British treated the Irish
@@Johndeadmen the brits don't pretend they was peaceful
I have been waiting for this one!!
Assuming you are African American, I give you much credit for being so knowledgeable about Chinese immigration to the west.
Respect to all hard working Chinese people. Without them we wouldn't have so many modern conveniences available so cheaply for so many.
They need to teach more things like this in US school
That would require accountability.
@@CrownxMe7 true lmao
ya but wont.
USA is the land of great decepticons....
They only talk about black slavery.. and screaming for repatriation, no one cares of even want to talk about this
@@mmfong297Just because media outlets such as Fox News condition a special group of people into believing that all Black citizens in USA are "begging - BEGGING - for reparations," doesn't make it true. If you ever actually, God forbid, interact with someone who has a skin complexion darker than yours, ask they've seeked out reparations. 🙄
There’s a somewhat educational commercial in Canadian culture sharing the story of the bc workers, and for a little while! McDonald’s put out the story in comic book form with ya happy meal! Had that-including the 500$ head tax! And Tyrell, who in the badlands discovered dinosaurs. Thanks for touchin on this, guys!
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There's a bunch of old secret Chinese mining tunnels all around the downtown area where I live.
What city
Asian Americans are amazing people.
They're smart too.
Asians? Does that include hindu indians. Same asians that were kicked out of Uganda?
Im from Bakersfield Ca, downtown, i have seen some of these tunnles myself at least some in an art gallery that is over an 100 years old
Chinese are resilient and do not ask for handouts. They work hard and do not complain or play victim.
Wow, so true.
They are genuinely hardworking people and they take pride in that. Kudos to the Chinese people!!!
I wish most of the immigrants/migrants would work even half as hard, instead of relying on freebies 🙄
Vegeta Is the best example of a Chinese
This is how history should be taught. No agenda. Just tell us the truth, good and bad.
People struggling to come up with $500 in 2024. Could you imagine trying to come up with $500 back in those days??
No
🤨 Why is there picture of Japanese people at 8:45 ??
They are not Japanese, but have similar wardrobes.
@@Epicface888chu These women wearing ornate kimonos with wooden sandals are actually high-class courtesans known as "tayu" in pre-modern Japan. It appears to be a photograph taken in Kyoto, Japan, in the late 19th century. For some reason, there are several other images from Japan used, but they have nothing to do with the topic of the video.
15:07 is incredibly insulting.
When i grew up- all i knew America was "Gold Mountain." It was the only thing people can relate to the USA in those times. When i immigrated here with my family i would tell people im going Gold Mountain in China.
I used to live in Pendleton Oregon the underground badass I found so many opium bottles around there😊
Anything inside ever?
What!!! That’s so badass I love finding old bottles. Do you think any more are still in there!?
“Give me your Tired, your poor your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” And America will tax them, make it impossible for them to be citizens and then blame you for everything wrong in the nation.
That's called subjugation ...
@@selenium-es7hl no it’s not. It’s not bringing anyone under colonial control. If you want to move to another country as an immigrant you can do so as long as it’s done legally anywhere in the world. Please read the definition of the word you are using.
there are subterrainian cities under several of the cities in and near where i live - buuilt and occupied by chinese rail workers. truly inceedible history
What cities are they under specifically? That's fascinating
@@DanM-pw9nl Pendleton Oregon and baker city Oregon though I believe Pendleton is the only one offering tours! Gotta finesse the bar keep at the Geiser grand Hotel in Baker City to see those.
that’s the last open entrance I know of, thought the entire down town district is protected heritage buildings or whatever -with possible access
Thanks @@Exxar-Kuun
At 5:15 Dude...thats a lot of Tongs!!
Lets never forget the Chinese sacrifices in the Greatest country in the world. As a southeast Asian I have a Chinese in my DNA, they came from Fuljian China and also a migrant. Thats why I have a great respect for Chinese people.
Chinese is not a ethnicity china has 56 different ethnicity your ancestors came from china that why you are Chinese but maybe not Han chinese
@@abcwarrior91 it's actually not that matter, chinese is united by its culture, not ancestry.
if a foreigner immigrate into china, they usually will be registered as Han chinese
@@alaya1472 Oh, I see another wokey here. Moving to another country does not change your race or ethnicity. If your ancestor is not native to China, you are not a Chinese period. I'm Hmong/Miao btw, we originate in China together with Han Chinese and other minority groups. If you're not part of the 56 ethnic groups, you have no right to comment on this topic. Get out of here.
Fujian has always been known for hard-working craftspeople and all around the world, from Singapore to Utah, humanity has benefited greatly from your ancestors.
@@abcwarrior91 He is wrong about being registered as Han Chinese, a foreigner will be registered as "their ethnicity/original nationality-Chinese". But he is right about China being united by culture and not ethnicity, if you practices Chinese culture and have Chinese citizen ID, then you're Chinese, regardless if you're Han or not.
6:37 calling that monstrosity a “hatchet” is a severe understatement. That thing looks like something out of Dark Souls.
that’s how chinese hatchets really looked like 😬 not small and fancy like in kung fu movies
I think that might have been a "bone cleaver". The "chinese cleaver" is actually designed to be used like a chef's knife is used in western cooking. The bone cleaver looks like a axe or hatchet, it's typically bigger and thicker so it can chop thru the bones of cattle and pigs, so it would make a person into mincemeat. o_O
@@ragingjaguarknight86 all those Chinese movies where people run around with little hatchets would have a different energy if they all carried bone cleavers 😬
Success will always be universally scorned.
a fascinating tale
There are literally dozens of places in the Western US by the names China Camp and China Gulch.
OMG A 19 MIN VIDEO!! I will savor every extra min that’s more than the usual 10-12 min on 95% of all the other vids!!😂🥹🥲 what a blessed Tuesday! 🥰
lol. good...
Human rights .. So the America calls it !!! Thanks for the insight ....
**** THIS IS WHY I LOVE HELL ON WHEELS THE SERIES, IT HAS LOTS OF HISTORY, SPECIALLY ABOUT THIS ISSUE AND HOW EVERYTHINGE MOVED ****
Such a good show
the thumbnail to this is wild💀
That Tong Tong Tong Tong…🎶🎵🎼
I think we imported a lot of Chinese restaurants as well
The hbo (now on netflix) show Warrior is an excellent martial arts crime series set in this era. Worth a watch
GOOD OLD DAYS🤧🤧🤧
Mock Duck was part of the 嘲鴨 (cháo yā） gang. Tom Lee was also in a gang. They were a motley crew.
I remember earing Chinese food when I was smarr I always think about them when I'm walking
18:48 "RUSSELL MEANS SPEAKS OUT(1980)" pay attn to what means say's at about 30:00 something.
I don't have to click "like" if I want more content like this, I click like on *every* video and I'm a subscriber too! But what happened to our narrator?! We want him back in the corner to show us the faces he makes while he tells us the history of one damn thing or another. Bring him back!
I feel the same😢😢😢
Probably got tired of the extra editing work lol
In Los Mochis Sinaloa Mexico there is some delicious Chinese Mexican food restaurants.
The book Daughter of Fortune is an excellent story that takes place during this time with half of it told in the Chinese perspective.
Wondering if there are Tong ganges now still?
Yes they still exist. NYC, San Francisco, LA.
West coast, the chinese built the rail roads. Your history books will almost never talk about that but uts true. There is a book called coolies, very informational about this period in US history
Why would you think that the history books don't talk about it it's common knowledge
@@victorialynnstruble common knowledge isn't so common in America. I mean majority of people can't even name the capital of the US. I encourage you to step out into the real world instead of staying in Mom's basement.
Coolie is a very offensive word for Chinese laborers who perform humble manual jobs, used by Europeans (Oxford dictionary explanation). In modern China, people often use this word as a self-deprecation on some occasions.
However, "Coolie" is originated from Chinese word "苦力" (Ku-Li) that means exactly the humble manual laborer.
@@masterxiong7368 I think you dont give average Americans enough credit .
Also in Mississippi...working along side other laborers
Bro thumbnail is wild
Haircuts were rough back then ! 😁
I have read some limited history that Chinese were also brought to the Southern US in an effort to supplement/displace Black Labor in the late 1800's. Do you have any information?? Also, on a tour of NYC, I was informed that the Chinese American community raised a regiment for the US Army in WW1?? Thanks for sharing this part of American History.
Look up the story of the Chinese miners being brought to Australia to work . They were picked up in Hong Kong , the ship wrecked and the crew plus the Chinese workers were stuck on a deserted island . The crew snuck off in the middle of the night and the 300 Chinese workers were later killed and eaten by native tribes .
lmao
Those Chinese rail workers also had the first strike. They were promised fish and rice for their food. But, it was spoiled what was given to them. The railroad didn't want to replace the food. Which led to the strike. Until the Chinese got edible fish and rice. I think that's the story i was taught
everyone that died at sea in those days were "thrown overboard". It was called burial at sea. They didn't hold on to rotting corpses for the duration of a voyage.
Chinese immigrants were a major contributor in the completion of the trans continental railroad. There is a picture of the final spike being driven. No Chinese were included in the picture. The Chinese were not the orientals that had difficulty being accepted. Look what happened to Japanese Americans during WW 2.
14:44 tea and rice/vegtibles give energy?...
So eat sandwitches,asian food,and mexican food alot.
I allready try to drink alot of any kind of tea.
For that generation of Chinese people, it was very sad that the remains could not be buried in their hometown. RIP, my long suffering compatriots.
Slaughterhouse Canyon Lake Tahoe wasn't named for cattle like Wikipedia claims. It was named after the Chinese refused to work.
The thumbnail made me LOL
It’s actually really disturbing how he’s pulling the hair, it just look like the guy’s ripping his forehead 😬
@@yanisbattiche4805 you never wanted to grab someone’s hair like that?
Who is watching this because of "Warrior" on Netflix?
Anyone remember Lucky Luke cartoons? 🤣🤣
With all they went through back in the day, those Chinese gangsters probably weren't one to f**k with.
Similar Tong gangsters happened in Thailand, gambling prostitution racketeering illegal substances you named it. Not that all are bad but the bad ones were horrendous. My grandpa used to pull sand from river about two pennies each bucket.
Chinese people were here before we arrived.
Where's the Long Zii and the Hop Wei? @@"
Where I reside in Southern Oregon. The landscape is littered with old Chinese reminisce. Railroads, mining sites..
The same happened in Australia with the Victorian gold rush
Yeah there’s an Australian made mini series called New Gold Mountain that is about that, can watch on SBS on-demand. It’s pretty good.
with the name like 'Mock Duck', you have to be scary so people could take you seriously 😅😂
I'm no expert but the picture shown at 8:46 and 9:12 looks like a group of Japanese ladies in their Kimonos to me.
Laziness is looked down upon Chinese culture.
Warrior TV show needs 4th season
I still can't fathom why people love Pancho Villa
Its said that no matter where you go in the world, there will be Chinese people there.
Soon you'll be sold as a pet for Chinese tech billionaires. 😂😂
Easy on the ads hun.x
😂 it's them salad tongs uv gota watch
Can you do a study video to see why so many African American has Chinese ancestors or DNA. My friend has 8% but he don't remember no Asian grandparents and I ran across a few black friends like that! I just thought it's so cool.
Most African Americans are of West African/Central African and West European admixtures. Most African Americans do not have Chinese ancestors.
@lifeinlife24 Wrong. My friend told me that there was a time when only chinese men were allowed in America, and most of them had babies with African American women. That's why some African last name is Lee and etc... and a lot of them have little chinese % DNA without realizing.
Ming treasure voyages。
The Ming treasure voyages were maritime expeditions undertaken by Ming China's treasure fleet between 1405 and 1433. The Yongle Emperor ordered the construction of the fleet in 1403. The grand project resulted in seven far-reaching ocean voyages to the coastal territories and islands in and around the South China Sea and Indian Ocean. Admiral Zheng He was commissioned to command the fleet for the expeditions. Six of the voyages occurred during the Yongle Emperor's reign (r. 1402-24) and the seventh voyage occurred during the Xuande Emperor's reign (r. 1425-1435). The first three voyages reached up to Calicut on India's Malabar Coast, while the fourth voyage went as far as Hormuz in the Persian Gulf. In the last three voyages, the fleet traveled up to the Arabian Peninsula and East Africa.
where da 7uk were they getting rice from?
Shanghai Noon is an excellent documentary i saw about this topic.
Geography of Chinese Workers Building the Transcontinental Railroad. Between 1865 and 1869, thousands of Chinese migrants toiled at a grueling pace and in perilous working conditions to help construct America's first Transcontinental Railroad.
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I’m sry but the thumbnail got me weak 😭
lol nice 😂
Politicians like Tom Cotton want bring back Chinese exclusion act...
You can still find a lot of old chinese grave stones from this era in Tijuana/Mexican cemetaries.
Makes peaky blinders look like a soap opera 😂
"Gold Mountain" is San Francisco. In pinyin its Jiu Jin Shan and is pronounced "jeo jeen shawn".
Actually, in pinyin there's no "g" in jin, which means gold in Chinese. So San Francisco's name is "Jiu Jin Shan" in Mandarin.
Since the Chinese that immigrated to California were from Canton aka Guangdong, they spoke Cantonese. The same coming from Hong Kong. They called San Francisco. “ San Fan shi “, or maybe “ Dai Fow “ ( Big City ). Throughout the 50s, 60s, and 70s Everyone spoke Cantonese or other dialects Didn’t hear Mandarin until the next big wave that arrived in the late 90s. - 2000s
@naptus Actually pinyin was developed for spelling the sounds from Mandarin, and in Mandarin the name of San Francisco is "Jiu Jin Shan."
@@Justinian21c Technically you are correct, 😊 however, growing up in the heart of SF Chinatown in the 50s and 60s, everyone used Cantonese, or “Guangdonghua, even in the business district all along Grant Avenue. "Gold Mountain" was pronounced " Gum Shan " My source, my older first cousin, retired , professor of Chinese history, University of Las Vegas.
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He says this, to the credit of the Rattlesnake: that he never takes advantage of any one, and has none of the instincts of an assassin; that he never strikes without first giving warning, and then does not strike if the enemy will keep his distance and not attack him. Isn't that true of the Rattlesnake, Papa?"
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my beautiful people
Really???? Rude loud disrespectful selfish I could go on forever.