He predicted that by the year 2000, their 3% of the total population will increase with at least one additional percent (Takaki, 9).
Those Asians who came to the United States with the first immigration wave were mostly workers with no education drawn by the temptation of the Gold Rush on the West Coast, or by the shortage of labor forces the United States were confronted with at some point. Few of them were having higher education or even University degrees. Most of them struggled and worked hard to make a living and then to bring the rest of their families over to join them here (Takaki, 12). In this respect, they were no different than the rest the immigrants who were flooding in from Europe by the second half of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. Yet, there were laws that were issued in order to stop some of these Asians to come into the United States. In 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act prohibited Chinese people to enter the country as immigrants, while forty-two years later, in 1924, the Japanese were also stopped from coming here for the same purposes (Takaki, 13).
Takaki points out that the discrimination based on race was in place in the United States ever since white supremacy the Naturalization Law came to be passed in 1790, stating that only the white exclusively were to be naturalized. It took the young American nation, a country built by immigrants, over a century and a half to abolish this law, advancing well into the second half of the twentieth century (Takaki, 13).
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Unfortunately, the opinions of many white Americans during this time were of disapproval rather than acceptance of the "melting pot" that was America. Takaki's work is also surprising when the subject notes Asian-Americans had lived in the United States for well over "150 years" yet still their existed much in the way of prejudiced behaviors toward young and old Asian-American's alike. Takaki providers a wonderful insight of Asian-American culture stating
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