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United States is known to have different ethnicity since the majority of its population originates from Europe. It is believed that the largest groups can have the primary ancestry traceable to the United Kingdom, Ireland as well as German. America has multiple ancestries which comprises of major and minor groups. The minority groups include the black Americans of US, African, Filipinos, Japanese, and Mexicans, Chinese as well as other Spanish native people of the Americans. The paper seeks to look at the two ethnic groups in America, how their social, political, racial discrimination was, and as well have a look at how they contributed to make America what it is today (Dorothea &Gordon 2006).
In this paper, we will have a look at Japan and Asia as the two ethnic groups and look at how they related to each other as well their contribution to making the modern United States. The ethnicity of Japan as well as that of Asia can be traced back in the World War II. Back in1835, the American settlers established the sugar plantation in Hawaii, and this was an independent dominion. The American could not handle the situation on their own and therefore they decided to have a means of how they could solve the predicaments.
The sugar plantation demanded large number of workers in order to cultivate and harvest the cane fields as well as operating the refineries. During the genesis of the year 1852, the owners of the plantations decided to import Chinese laborers which this process resembled the African slave trade. The Chinese laborers worked in the sugar plantation but later in 1865, several Chinese were leaving the plantation for other jobs. From then, the plantation was lefty with no workers and therefore several measures were implemented (Harry,1987).
Hawaii foreign minister who was also a sugar planter wrote to American businessman in Japan seeking for Japan agriculture workers. A group of a hundred and forty eight people were brought including men, women and children and they signed a cont4ract where some of them were not able to complete their three years contract and they decided to do back to Japan. The plantation labor was unsympathetic, less remuneration and hard working days, which also made them to breach the contract just like the Chinese.
In 1869, the Pacific mail company`s China brought a party of samurai where they included famers, tradesmen as well as women to Francisco. It was believed that the Japanese were displaced from their homes during the finale of the Tokugawa shogun ate and the re-establishment of the Meiji emperor. During this era, followers of lord Matusudaria established a 600-acre of tea and silk farm. Unfortunately, this did not do well as the plantation decomposed in the dry California soil. After the incidence, a few settlers decided to go back to Japan while the rest wafted away from the settlement and decided to begging a new life and from here, we trace the origin of the first generation Japanese on Hawaiian and American shores.
This plantation had made it possible for the Japanese and the Chinese to migrate from their mother land to America for jobs which turned out to slavery acts. In 1882, an Act of prohibiting Chinese immigration was passed by the U.S congress but this was different compared to the Japanese. The Japanese signed a labor convention that led to a huge number of Japanese contract workers in Hawaii and this gave rise to an anti-Japanese movement. During this era, racial discrimination was noted since the Americans decided to come up with some bills where Japanese were not allowed to attend the Americans public schools since most of them were not conversant with the American English.
At first, the Japanese and the Korean ancestry students where ordered to attend the Chinese schools and this action offended the Japanese government where they decided to negotiate on the matter. The matter was solved since the American president did not want do bleach the relationship with the Japanese and from then, the Japanese were allowed to attend regular public schools. The labor immigration contract was also limited and they stopped issuing passports to laborers in the United States. The Japanese in the United States were allowed to stay in America and considered as Americans through an agreement known as Gentlemen`s Agreement (Robert, 1999).
Under the new Gentlemen Agreement, some of the Japanese migrated to the United States where most of the immigrants were women. In 1920 the number of the married women in Japan doubled. This was caused by the immigration of the Japanese women to Hawaii and the US where marriages were arranged by parents. In this case, couples were marring from US and Japan as well. That is if the bride was in Japan, the groom was in the United States. This wave of immigration changed the nature of Japanese American community as they become permanent settlement a good evidence of the Japanese ethnicity in America.
The Immigration restriction by the American ambassador was favored by many Americans Later in 1924, immigration Act burned further immigration and made it law in 1952 and from this, there was the eruption of World war II. As mentioned earlier, the post World War II started slowly where one could not tell. In the year 1952, the McCarran- Walter Act allowed immigration from the South East Asia ending the Japanese in a racial discrimination way. In this case, the Asian immigrants were allowed to have 100 immigrants while on the other hand, the immigration from the European country was determined by the national origins and racial clauses.
The 1965 immigration Act eliminated the national origin quotas and gives way to immigrants from the Eastern Hemisphere, western as well those from the Asian country were allowed to enter the United States. As a result, the law opened a send wave for the Asian immigrants to start a new composition of the Asian American population. It was noted that in 1960, 52% of the Asian American population were Japanese American and later in 1985, only 15% of the Asian Americans were Japanese. Th...