Chinese Immigration into America

Chinese Immigration into America

What caused our country to choose racism over open-mindedness, to choose exclusion over inclusion?   Why could we not accept the Chinese immigrant in a country of foreigners?   Could it have been jealousy?   The thought of someone being better than the American people was something that was unacceptable so in turn we passed laws forbidding those of another race entry into our country.   I suppose when the national anthem states "the land of the free" it wasn't pertaining to the Chinese.   There were two main reasons why the United States passed and maintained the Chinese Exclusion Acts, the economical situation and the racism, all regarding to competition.  
"Whereas, in the opinion of the Government of the United States the coming of Chinese foreigners to this country endangers the good of certain localities within the territory thereof:" This is an excerpt from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.   It was the first law regulating the Chinese entry into the United States.   There was much that centered on it that made it even worse than it initially appears.   There were two different classes of laws that were made against the entry of the Chinese.   There was "coolie labor" as well as laws relating to the regulation of general admission.   Coolie labor is when a certain race is better functioning in different conditions.   The Chinese, for example, worked great in the tropical weather.   The Burlingame Treaty in 1868, among other things, prohibited coolie labor yet employers used veiled tricks to get around this treaty.   The Exclusion Acts were also passed in Australia and Canada.   In Australia, the Chinese were considered a "public danger" therein the reason for the exclusion act.   In the United States however, it was competition that made the fight stronger.   Whenever two groups are in economical pursuit it is "fertile field" for conflict.   In 1869, the Central Pacific Railroad was finished and thousands of white and Chinese workers were put out of work.   Many drifted to...