People do not realize that a big part of the Chinese Exclusion Acts was fear of disease, carried by the poorest of Chinese immigrants.
Modern leftists have bashed the British in Hong Kong for having areas, particularly in the “Peak” residential area of Hong Kong, that banned Chinese from the area. The reason? Throughout the late 18th century through the 1920’s, Hong Kong regularly suffered cholera and typhus epidemics, brought by the many dirt-poor immigrants fleeing war and chaos in China.
Thanks I never heard of the Chinese Exclusion Acts. Just did some reading, it is interesting.
When I lived in Washington State, I learned Chinese Immigrants settle in Washington before Washington was a state. I was never taught that in School. I did take American History but that was not included.