[muawiyah]

Hunh? Chinese KILLED PEOPLE to get those jobs! Building the railroad was the best job on the Pacific Litoral. Chinese structural engineers who were highly educated in the art of building multi-story buildings came here to turn jacks and build trestle bridges.

No one oppressed the Chinese railroad workers ~ they were paid. Now there might have been some folks who though they were oppressing them, but they were fools. Many of those men returned to China and other places throughout Eastasia and made fortunes working with other railway companies.

[exDemMom]

I didn’t say they weren’t paid, or compare them to slaves. From what I’ve read, they were subject to quite a bit of racism. Which, I believe, is a form of exploitation.

Other groups were subjected to that, also. The Irish come to mind.