1. Reasons for immigration to the United States
1.1. Chinese immigration was reduced to a trickle, and large companies and farmers needed an abundance of cheap labor.
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1.2. Planters liked importing Japanese workers because they believed they offset the Chinese workers by preventing strikes and the formation of unions.
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1.3. Japanese were mistaken for Chinese during the early years of their immigration because of their physical similarities.
1.3.1. https://jacl.org/asian-american-history/
1.4. Japanese dreamed of better opportunities and searched for peace and prosperity.
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2. Early experiences in the United States
2.1. Japanese sought jobs as industrial fishermen, miners, loggers and service workers.
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2.2. Anti-Japanese movement and a 1906 San Francisco school board order segregating Japanese American students due to the increase of Japanese in California.
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2.3. Issei had few chances for education or good paying jobs at home and hoped to save some of the money they earned working in Hawaii.
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2.4. Most had intentions to return to Japan, but saw their sojourn as a quick path to wealth and responsibility.
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3. Attaining Citizenship
4. Segregation and Discrimination
5. Current reality in the United States
5.1. Over 46,000 Japanese immigrants, including many elderly Issei, became naturalized citizens by 1965.
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5.2. Japanese Americans experience problems that are a direct result of racially-based misconceptions that some members of the majority population hold.
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5.3. Many 2nd and 3rd generation Japanese have moved to the suburbs and many 3rd and 4th generation Japanese are not literate in the Japanese language.
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5.4. Despite their drive to assimilate, many Japanese Americans have clung to core Japanese traditions and values.
5.4.1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/japanese-americans-still-grapple-withmixed-legacy/2012/03/02/gIQAN3HEAS_story.html?utm_term=.bcc9ba2c0a87
6. Common stereotypes
6.1. Many white Americans think of Japanese Americans as a "model minority" because of their reputation for hard work and high educational attainment.
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6.2. Japanese are often thought to be subservient, docile, and polite.
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6.3. At the outset of the 20th century, Asian Americans were seen as threatening, exotic, and degenerate.
6.3.1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/29/the-real-reason-americans-stopped-spitting-on-asian-americans-and-started-praising-them/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.52ed7f74bdb7
6.4. Degrading terms such as Jap and Tojo were frequently used in American anti-Japanese propaganda, especially following Pearl Harbor and WWII.
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