I really hate how often the response to this is: "But look what China's doing!" Instead of "We must be better". A lot of people seem to think if something in America is wrong, we just look at a worse country and go: "Oh not so bad". It's literally a child blaming his younger sibling for his mess by pointing out the bigger mess. I hope they don't raise their children like that.

@Crocthunder

2 жыл бұрын

Its become such a trope. People want more focus on our country but then faults show we go to straight to that like you say.

@slumshoes

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. What-about-ism, as some people call it, is a sign of immaturity. We must do better. We can be better.

@Morningstar_37

2 жыл бұрын

"I hope they don't raise their children like that." If you mean the US with "they", they actually do, children get teached a very gloryfied version of their countries history in school

@unstables8237

2 жыл бұрын

yeah.

@felix_quintana

2 жыл бұрын

There are millions of grown ups that react like that and don't accept their error or responsabilities.

"national security" seems like the US' favorite line..

@jellyboy00

2 жыл бұрын

I hear the term daily in HK this year.

@Hand-in-Shot_Productions

2 жыл бұрын

I am an American, and I must admit that it raises a very important question: what on Earth _is_ "national security"?

@stevves4647

2 жыл бұрын

@@Hand-in-Shot_Productions bombing the middle east

@Hand-in-Shot_Productions

2 жыл бұрын

@@stevves4647 Quite a modern answer there!

@stevves4647

2 жыл бұрын

@@Hand-in-Shot_Productions and parts of Africa and dont forget Afghanistan

"A matter of national security", sounds so familiar.

@WardofSquid

2 жыл бұрын

Time is a flat circle

@AverageJoe483

2 жыл бұрын

Now they say this in China to their own people.

@anti-matter872

2 жыл бұрын

DID ANYONE SAID ANTI-MATTER.....no

@Vugen18

2 жыл бұрын

@EGGZININ calling him/she a twonge and not even getting the point of the comment. lmfao

@marios1861

2 жыл бұрын

@@AverageJoe483 that's what us media has led you to believe

This is shameful, and I'm glad it's coming to light. They certainly didn't teach us this in school.

@bobwilson679

2 жыл бұрын

I was taught this in school? Wdym?

@jk-gb4et

2 жыл бұрын

@@bobwilson679 Depends when or where you went to school.

@nolife1199

2 жыл бұрын

Because it doesn't matter

@SwagHyde

2 жыл бұрын

@@nolife1199 you're wrong

@MichelleIbarraMHAEdD

2 жыл бұрын

@@nolife1199 it matters a lot. Kids don't know racism until they're taught it, usually by their parents. It matters that we've had such hypocrisy in oyr history. It matters so that we can know what mistakes not to make again. We can do and be better.

"All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others" P.D: The animation is very well done. :)

@ember_may2

2 жыл бұрын

Animal farm

@yivunqp963

2 жыл бұрын

Classic

@yivunqp963

2 жыл бұрын

@@ember_may2 at least in Animal Farm they wrote it down rather than pretending equal is equal

@sm1purplmurderedme583

2 ай бұрын

@@ember_may2good book

Sadly, I was never taught any of this in my American history classes in Texas...

@nyltiac169

2 жыл бұрын

American history class will never show all the country's faults...

@oliviacolas5816

2 жыл бұрын

Actually I was taught this in school.

@dianalaura2276

2 жыл бұрын

@@oliviacolas5816 Same, from California

@devpratap7322

2 жыл бұрын

@Pinned by New Money you are on wrong channel scammer

@akhost3929

2 жыл бұрын

You probably were not paying attention it was in my history textbook. It is not an unknown piece of history.

*"I hate you, but don't go! You are very useful to me and I need a scapegoat to excuse my lazyness!"* Seriously American history reminds me so much of an abusive relationship but with many different people

@emberhermin52

2 жыл бұрын

But they wanted them to go. They barred them from coming back in.

@sm1purplmurderedme583

2 ай бұрын

literally. this is how american treats all its citizens who aren’t white

As a chinese person, it is disheartening to see the struggles our ancestors went through all over the world as immigrants, same here in my country of Malaysia where chinese citizens are seen as a threat and takes the blame for everything, even to today. But that is the exact thing that makes us so successful, our resilience and drive. Hence, many chinese immigrants find success even in unfavorable situations.

@MichaelChong100

2 жыл бұрын

@@siqiweng3188 Please, he never live in Malaysia before, how will they know what we been through? He only look with his White men eyes instead of having empathy!

@divineintervention6318

Жыл бұрын

thank you for bringing us this Kung Fu flu 19.

@tonywang4032

Жыл бұрын

@@divineintervention6318 You're welcome. Hopefully you and your family receive our gift.

@tonywang4032

Жыл бұрын

@@divineintervention6318 Good luck getting one lol, we're here to stay and spread our gift

@Animeal_Tv

Жыл бұрын

@@tonywang4032 Hatred +1 Processing all hatred derive from this confession alone. * Processing (Ding) Procession complete Hate +1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+ +10,000 Hatred points and rising.

THIS NEEDS TO BE TAUGHT IN MORE SCHOOLS. For all my life, growing up as a Cantonese American I always felt that I Asians as a whole aren’t represented enough in our history classes. Every person of any background deserves to share their story.

@cluckingduck2576

2 жыл бұрын

I feel like Latinos aren't represented much in history. Also, are the problems facing Latinos lesser than that of blacks and asians? I feel like it is that way, with society focusing more on blm and anti asian hate crimes. Us Latinos also exist!

@flufflecake9232

2 жыл бұрын

@@cluckingduck2576 I whole heartily agree with your statement but at the moment it kinda just looks like you're trying to push the main point away I'm Latina too by the way so I get what you mean, the injustices done to us throughout history are never really mentioned much.

@cluckingduck2576

2 жыл бұрын

@@flufflecake9232 I wasn't trying to push away from people talking about the video, I just wanted to bring this up as many people were watching the video and going through the comments.

@flufflecake9232

2 жыл бұрын

@@cluckingduck2576 Ah, understandable. I kinda meant that with the way people take things nowadays they may have perceived it that way

@Jose04537

2 жыл бұрын

@@cluckingduck2576 It's not a competition, it's not the "victimhood Olympics". And even if it was, you would loose them, because you weren't slaved.

The relationship between the US and east Asia is very strangely colonial in nature despite the US defining itself as the reaction against colonialism at the time. For instance the colonisation of the phillipines, the invasion of China in the eight nation alliance against the boxer Rebellion, and the forceful reopening of Japan's borders by the US Navies commodore Mathew Perry

@Ygyoyu

2 жыл бұрын

Basically ye even today with Puerto Rico

@god-bv5wo

2 жыл бұрын

@@icrushchildrensdreams4556 stop spamming everywhere

@RealUlrichLeland

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ygyoyu and Guam and American Samoa. Not to mention how they still have Guantanamo bay occupied in Cuba as a result of them conquering it from the Spanish. And the British Indian Ocean Territory had the indigenous population forcefully expelled by the British at the request of the Americans in the 1950s so they could build a military base there which is still in use and the UN has declared must be decolonised.

@user-gr6cy8nx3z

2 жыл бұрын

@@RealUlrichLeland But not all of the territories (colonies) the US maintain today desire independence. Guam, along with other Pacific colonies, have a considerably higher standard of living than other neighboring island nations. That’s why some of these polities don’t have strong independence movements (that’s not to say _all_ though, some of them like New Caledonia are very close to independence). And that isn’t to say America and France are necessarily “good” colonizers, but from the perspective of the colonies, they would lose more than they would gain from not being a part of a large, wealthy nation.

@icrushchildrensdreams4556

2 жыл бұрын

@@god-bv5wo cry about it

Ah yes “national security” is what they were worried about. Sure.

@BeaverChainsaw

2 жыл бұрын

that's hillarious, the qing dynasty was literally starting to crumble at the time of the exclusionary act.

@andreoka

2 жыл бұрын

yes, much like always, much like china is despite being the one doing military drills and sponsoring coups and dictatorships literally next door.

This should be taught in US History and Government classes.

@funkydiscogod

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, seems like we could use another one.

@CHRISPYakaKON

2 жыл бұрын

@1350 scapegoating a whole ethnic group definitely doesn’t parallel harassment and hate crimes today 🤡

@ANCIENTWARRI0R

2 жыл бұрын

I actually learned this in a high school history class. It was 20th Century US history.

@CharlieQuartz

2 жыл бұрын

I live in the South and we were taught about every event of racial injustice that I’ve heard claimed “should be taught in every school”

@TimeAce

2 жыл бұрын

@1350 did you just say rightfully ignored 🤨🤨

As someone who is Chinese, it infuriates me how people so often in history and currently blame those of colour for anything bad that happens. I never even knew this happened until I watched this video, which just goes to show how often Asian history is ignored or erased.

@gravel7614

2 жыл бұрын

@@EzioIlMentore probably because it needs to be addressed and not ignored. Media isn't enough. It need to end

@curtiswong7280

2 жыл бұрын

@@fabio_ferrari That's literally whataboutism.

@sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149

2 жыл бұрын

@@curtiswong7280 Is it though? He simply cited another example, it didn't I any way go against or invalidate what the OP said.

@curtiswong7280

2 жыл бұрын

​@@sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149 Possibly.

@curtiswong7280

2 жыл бұрын

@@sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149 He could've mentioned many other cases, but he chose the one case that is directly tied to the Chinese. I'm not saying this was wholly intentional, but it comes out as being less than ideal.

I absolutely hate people who discriminate others by literally anything and treat them like inanimate/soulless objects. No one is better than anyone and we should all celebrate our differences and not take pride in other’s unfortunates.

@negativeiqpoints396

2 жыл бұрын

This x1000. Too many people see each other as hive minds who all act the same in their own interests, definitely not the case

@thesauce1682

2 жыл бұрын

This is what US news are doing. They spread propaganda against China. Just look at donald clown. Embarrassing.

@negativeiqpoints396

2 жыл бұрын

@@zabuki1740 ok look no offense but china got railed in the 20th century. Now America is more significant because of china's communist dictatorship

@depduc3615

2 жыл бұрын

How are you doing Jocelyn ?

@divineintervention6318

Жыл бұрын

you're posting this simply to defend your ilks because you're one of them too.

For every USA citizen that feels offended or attacked for exposing the history of racism in his country shouldn't feels that way. There is no country in the world, especially the big once has a clean history. Talking about the atrocities of the past is a sign of progress and everyone should be proud of it.

@mobilegamesonly3170

2 жыл бұрын

Fully agree!

@MrGong55

2 жыл бұрын

Agree

@kartikshrivastava6233

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@andromedamessier3176

2 жыл бұрын

Agree. In my country, talking about it or atrocities now could lead you to prison or death. It is ironic, how I know more about America than my own country.

@Jose04537

2 жыл бұрын

It's curious how they always bring attention to things USA did decades, even centuries ago (a lot of them already fixed) and completely ignore what bad things said countries did RECENTLY. How the USA wronged China back in 1890s, and not how China is wronging the rest of the world and it's population RECENTLY? (Hong Kong, Uyghurs concentration camps and organs harvesting, invasion of Tibet, threatening Taiwan, The Famine during Mao Zedong, Tianamen Square, and much more). Why only address the bad things of one side, and only the good thing on the other side? The only videos with a diferrent approach where "Hystory vs" they stopped making.

The surname is Chae. He should be referred to as 'Chae' or 'Chan Ping', not 'Ping'. It's like calling Donald Trump 'Do'.

@Just_som_Ottur

2 жыл бұрын

If this is true, then this should get some more likes so the makers see it ~

@jamesrodriguez9256

2 жыл бұрын

If transfer his name in an English form, it’s like “Chanping Chae” while “Chae Chan Ping” is exactly how Chinese pronounces and each syllable stands a Chinese character.

@jivvyjack7723

2 жыл бұрын

The Chinese usually call a person by the last name if they are familiar with the person. So in this case, Chae (surname) Chan Ping's friends & families might call him Chan Ping, Ping, Ah Ping, Siaw Ping, Ping Ping, Lao Chae .... depending on age & degree of relationship. But agree that in this instant, it might be preferable to refer to him by his surname as is the customary practice for English formal speeches. Unless of course, the author has already written his name in the English style, ie. Chae Chan (name) Ping (surname), in which case he is correctly referred to in the speech by his surname Ping.

@kleuafflatus

2 жыл бұрын

chae is the surname in this case. I looked it up on wikipedia, his name was 柴禪平

@keystrokes2516

2 жыл бұрын

Literally don’t care

This was very satisfying to watch. It's rare to see an amarican documentary about America not giving some sort of vague defence for the country's historically horrendous action. Thank you for the informative video.

Imagine work more than the locals, but instead of being well treated, you get excluded from society all together with excuse of being an outsider. It's ironic how the U.S claims to be a stronghold for dedicated work and individual liberty since it's birth, but it choose to create laws that are just as oppresive as the Soviet Union.

@ladeansimpkins3448

2 жыл бұрын

In Australia the views and stereotypes about "Asians taking our jobs" are still prevalent. They talk about the Asians "stealing" occupational doctor, nursing and STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) positions. I always have to remind people, if you're studying to be a hairdresser there's no way you will get the same job or pay rate as someone studying to become a doctor. If someone's actually qualified, better at the job than you - then they are going to hire that person, regardless of their race.

@andromedamessier3176

2 жыл бұрын

The law has been abolished 71 years ago.

@mrvn000

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the real world.

@ryanergo754

2 жыл бұрын

@@andromedamessier3176 So?

@andromedamessier3176

2 жыл бұрын

@@ryanergo754 because the op acts like the law is still in-affect today. Today Asian has the best stereotype. When dealing with police, they actually got good treatment cause of that stereotype.

The Three American Lies: 1. "It's not about oil." 2. "We're here as liberators." 3. "An American signature on a treaty is worth something."

@sonofben3322

2 жыл бұрын

4. “On account of national security...”

@QHoang-tt5ht

2 жыл бұрын

5. We never lost to Vietnam, we just runaway.

@shariyarshajid

2 жыл бұрын

We have achieved a lot in Afghanistan.

@uglytruthbombs5122

2 жыл бұрын

7: The "defense" budget is for defense.

@a_moth_probably

2 жыл бұрын

8. "America, the land of the free"

I love how America poses Itself as a defender of human rights whereas America was itself established in the blood of massacred Red Indians and racism runs deep through American blood.

@jury3656

2 жыл бұрын

@MassesOfHypocrite war?

@therobro5089

2 жыл бұрын

@@jury3656 yeah the Indian-American wars 1607-1900 were a series of raids, border clashes, invasions and battles. It’s not that hard to understand

@cheetahk1

Жыл бұрын

according to your defense china can say it's just war as they rip us to shreds over Taiwan and dismiss it frankly it's greed and human racism. anyone who thinks otherwise is part of the problem not solution.

@dopedagoth1789

24 күн бұрын

If a criminal changes its way and becomes a cop, are they not now a defender of law?

Thank you so much. This is a topic that definitely needs to be covered. Asian struggles have continuously been brushed away and this sort of content is extremely important.

@kamdeoray3573

2 жыл бұрын

So true like American and European ones take like all the shine

@biswasbudhathoki8144

2 жыл бұрын

Any struggle will be brushed away if they sullied some kind of reputation.

@lizardguyNA

2 жыл бұрын

Oh if only there were some THEORY that could be taught to make us CRITICAL of the RACIAL impacts of America's laws and systems.

@unstables8237

2 жыл бұрын

As an asian myself, I can definitely agree.

@icrushchildrensdreams4556

2 жыл бұрын

@Prince Talleyrand manchus should come back again.

The Chinese exclusion act alongside other discriminatory/targeting bills really goes to show how over the top the US government will go to deal with “threats to national security”. While a small number of these acts did help protect a bit of national security (ie catch spies but this debatable if the number was substantial enough), the damage caused by most if not all of these laws was too immense to be considered collateral. That’s why I think learning from history is crucial for our society as if we erase, alter, or never teach about it, it will be bound to repeat itself.

@eastsouth9548

2 жыл бұрын

eh history already repeated itself.

@bubble4472

Жыл бұрын

@@Stevie-J It shows some injustices in their part, because some schools do not always taught the full extent, but a glorified version.

@EricLing64

12 күн бұрын

Not even sure there was much espionage to be done back then. Well, there were some trade secrets and special crafts like glass making and stuff I think, forget which country it was that was at the peak back in the day, but I think they had other ways of safeguarding such secrets than outright country wide bans. That said these days there is actually a real threat of odd espionage, I think it's mostly still trying to steal trade secrets, but there are also some people that get arrested for stealing more classified secrets, even some idiots posting them on discord... not that that guy was chinese but others are. That said, still not a great reason to ban all such immigration. Though there is still a massive amount of people trying to get in, many trying to cheat the system I hear, and I don't mean the drug smugglers and stuff.

I feel a theme I’m seeing learning about stuff like this is people are so afraid of loosing power. Losing their high ground, and they would stop at nothing just to keep it. They would kill, threaten, torture. All for power, or at least to keep it.

Wow the animation is jaw dropping and so is the racism

It's always a good day when Ted Ed uploads.

@jatticusbruhman3554

2 жыл бұрын

ikr

@Hacksolotl

2 жыл бұрын

early

@fullpowergaming4403

2 жыл бұрын

Right

@voyager8958

2 жыл бұрын

For us it's good night....

@unstables8237

2 жыл бұрын

@@voyager8958 LOL

This is a reason why I don't favor judicial systems based on precedents. Sometimes a judge's ruling will go against the spirit of the law, and can't be relied on as precedent on a vaguely similar case.

@Jose04537

2 жыл бұрын

If judges could rule whatever they wanted, what would be the point of having laws then? Only the Supreme Court should be able to declare laws unconstitutional.

Thank you for making this video

Thank you for letting me understand more of my ancestor's history, Ted.

There was also a Canadian version of Chinese Exclusion Act.

@simkiankiong3599

2 ай бұрын

1924 to 1947....sadly, chinese are never accepted in the new countries, even at present....perhaps they are envies of the chinese resilience and hardworking & never say die attitude...Be proud of being a chinese descend...the dragon blood flows in you....

It's also important to note that the Asian Exclusion Act (which is different from the Chinese Exclusion Act) didn't bar immigration from the Philippines since it was a colony of the United States at the time, making them US Nationals instead of foreign immigrants

@sohamchikte9171

2 жыл бұрын

No phillpines was allowed because they are christian

@user-cr3pn7rk2v

2 жыл бұрын

@@sohamchikte9171 Many other East Asian immigrants were Christian though.

@sohamchikte9171

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-cr3pn7rk2v yes that's why they are allowed

@jianhongzhao6336

2 жыл бұрын

@@sohamchikte9171 no they weren’t

@xXxSkyViperxXx

2 жыл бұрын

actually funny thing about the Chinese Exclusion Act is that it did have a loophole and yes, it was in the philippines where the loophole was and no, it wasn't about native filipinos, it was about chinese filipinos in the philippines lol. since the philippines already had chinese filipinos long residing for centuries in the philippines and then the philippines became ruled by the United States that had the chinese exclusion act in effect, chinese migration into the philippines was conditionally allowed for family of chinese filipino merchant families so what many chinese migrants did from fujian province where most chinese filipinos come from was that their relatives in the philippines would legally adopt them lol and use their local chinese filipino family surnames when in fact their real surnames are of a different character lol, so if you go to the manila chinese cemetery for many elderly people born during american colonial era in the philippines, you will see that for many people, their latin letter surname does not match their family name character in their chinese name. also, some families bribed government officials in the philippines to basically buy local hispanic surnames so many ethnic chinese filipino families in the philippines also use common hispanic surnames in the philippines despite technically being pure or majority ethnic chinese lol

"Welcome to America: the greatest country in the world"

@homosapien5156

2 жыл бұрын

I think that perception is changing now within America even. A lot of people including acknowledge that most developed states in Europe are much better places to live as compared to US

@Byotch

2 жыл бұрын

@@homosapien5156 yeah, but no, Europe is having the same problems as the United States with its middle eastern refugee crisis in which many countries in the EU are reacting the same exact way as Americans in this video.

@homosapien5156

2 жыл бұрын

@@Byotch Yeah. But I refering more towards things like free or reasonably priced healthcare, good public transportation etc. Germany and Scandinavian states I think are the better places in terms of what you said. Even though lately there have been American like reactions from some people it's very small compared to say England or France.

@Byotch

2 жыл бұрын

@@homosapien5156 true I understand, and, your right, healthcare and transportation is much better in those countries at the cost of extremely high tax rates though. So it is a give and a take and I prefer keeping more money to myself to be honest.

@Byotch

2 жыл бұрын

@@homosapien5156 it also depends on what you want to work as because it is undeniable that the US has the best colleges and amazing STEM programs and opportunities

I’ve been waiting for this video, I needed more info!

Wait till Americans learn what they did to the indigenous people

@lyzhia__.3597

2 жыл бұрын

Well, some Americans doesn’t know, I have just literal saw a tweet saying that they didn't know that the America colonized Philippines and other countries and how they didn't teach that at their school.

@MaheshAdhikari

2 жыл бұрын

@@lyzhia__.3597 they don't unless you take history as major

@dianalaura2276

2 жыл бұрын

@@MaheshAdhikari Umm that’s false. People who didn’t graduate High School nor payed attention in class may not know that. However everyone that does and payed attention learns that. I learned about the US colonizing the Philippines last year in US History (11th Grade).

@weebishusername9288

2 жыл бұрын

Wait till the Chinese learn what they did to Uighers

@usedsocks6810

2 жыл бұрын

@@weebishusername9288 Wait till Americans realize Muslim countries all support China and the Uighur genocide was CIA propaganda.

The quote in the beginning sums it up so well; After all, who is the Statue of Liberty welcoming if there is nobody to welcome?

Thanks for making this great video!💐

I am very grateful to you because she is really a translator. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you

Ah yes, the “American dream”

Those decisions back then still influence much of the population today. Is it any wonder there is such anti-Chinese sentiment in the US? We need to own the fact that a lot of what we don't like about Chinese policies towards us was in fact caused by the rivalries we put in place. The same thing is happening today in Australia - their relationship with China is a disaster now because of political rivalries causing a change in economic and migration policies. As always, it's the innocent people who suffer.

@bclaytz

2 жыл бұрын

I think it has more to do with China's communist government than Chinese people. Of course there are, and should be, tensions between democracies and totalitarian regimes.

@bibliotheek357

2 жыл бұрын

@@bclaytz Snowden is enjoying some US democracy right now.

Ted-ed, thank you. You are important. ❤️

I saw this mentioned in a book series ( it's called Book Scavenger ) and I'm really glad there's a video about this. Thank you :)

The animation for this is so gorgeous

Thank you, TED ED so much for making this video. Thank you.

@depduc3615

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Chloe how are you doing?

Thank you for this video

You should do a video on the White Australia policy that ended in the 1970's

@nolife1199

2 жыл бұрын

Or how Japan stayed 99% Japanese in the age of immigration

@nolife1199

2 жыл бұрын

@@h3nry_t122 Yes they did. Have you heard of ww2

@icrushchildrensdreams4556

2 жыл бұрын

@@nolife1199 stop forcing immigration onto countries that don’t want them.

@Hypernefelos

2 жыл бұрын

@@h3nry_t122 Yes on all counts, massively so, in Korea and China at first and then across their other conquests in the course of WWII. There were times when German Nazis thought they were overdoing it.

@keystrokes2516

2 жыл бұрын

@@nolife1199 a country is supposed to stay homogeneous? What’s wrong with Japan staying with Japanese?

Hi TED Ed, this is a long time watcher. I've been watching TED Ed video for about 3 or 4 years, and I have to say that I love these videos that use history to show us modern day situations in a brand new light. Keep up the good work!!

This was the bill in the famous School House Rock skit “I’m Just A Bill”

When the mightiest Rome laid in dust Which grave does the mightiest American future lies?

@icrushchildrensdreams4556

2 жыл бұрын

America will have many destinies succeeded by its influenced countries which will grow to destroy China one day.

@justiceleague9658

2 жыл бұрын

@@icrushchildrensdreams4556 joke of the day

@icrushchildrensdreams4556

2 жыл бұрын

@@justiceleague9658 at least Americans don’t have to worry about collapsing every 200 years

@noobnub7305

2 жыл бұрын

@@icrushchildrensdreams4556 yep funny huh? No country will destroy America more than itself. From discrimination, racism, homophobics and more. Every few months, another riot pops up lmao.

@chanbricks4461

2 жыл бұрын

@@icrushchildrensdreams4556 America was built on the back bone of British technology, is an island country (in a way) with no enemies to bother it, was created less than 500 years ago and had help from France against Britain. Truly amazing how an isolated country in a land full of raw materials waiting to be used would grow to be a super power huh?

Thank you for sharing.

And yet, here we are again...

As an Asian person, I am sad and angry that it took so long for the people of America to see that the law was unfair.

May this channel TED-Ed live long to produce video I like these videos the most as it was not too long nor too short

Let’s say TedEd made a video on the Berlin Wall and how the German people suffered under Soviet rule, would anger towards TedEd be justifiable for only covering how the German people suffered instead of covering how Germans committed atrocities against the Jewish people? No, it wouldn’t, and I’m pretty sure most people would agree with me on this. Now please keep this comment in mind before making a comment full of whataboutism.

@MrStealthWarrior

2 жыл бұрын

German people suffered because two super powers decided to play political games on German lands.

TED-Ed should add Chinese subtitles to this video, I’d love to share it to my non-English speaking friends.

@deniselyraamago

2 жыл бұрын

You can translate it for them

@TEDEd

2 жыл бұрын

Our volunteer translators are working on it at this very moment. Hopefully they will be available soon.

@xuefalan

2 жыл бұрын

@@TEDEd thanks!

The fear of the “yellow peril “ when Chinese became more innovative and successful Usa government felt national security threats, This fear has surfaced from time to time, contributing to the rise of anti-Asian violence in America.

@Jose04537

2 жыл бұрын

It was because of the virus.

@sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149

2 жыл бұрын

It's not entirely unjustified. In many ways China is a totalitarian state. And it was far worse back in the day under the rule of Mao. Know people who fled the famine. Horrible stuff.

@seieieor186

2 жыл бұрын

@@sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149 what? Do you mean the anti Asian hate crimes??

@sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149

2 жыл бұрын

@@seieieor186 God no, I'm not condoning hate crime. I'm pretty sure this comment has been edited. I believe it had other stuff included in it before about China as a nation.

thx for the vid!

Stunning animation!

So basically, the Chinese were the "Model Minority" in the 19th century too, working hard and getting rich, but back then, it was a problem since other Americans at the time didn't want to work as hard. Or save as much.

@remembertotakeshowerspleas355

2 жыл бұрын

They also drove down wages and working conditions for everyone while also throwing a wrench into the collective bargaining dynamic that was already less than ideal for workers.

@Zuckerpuppekopf

2 жыл бұрын

@@remembertotakeshowerspleas355 Indentured servitude was also widely used until it was outlawed in 1917, so your claim is more demagoguery than reality. However the hard work of the Chinese did make Indentured servitude more worthwhile for the servitude owners, hence the Chinese and Irish became the default face of such servitude.

@remembertotakeshowerspleas355

2 жыл бұрын

@@Zuckerpuppekopf Do you think Chinese slavery somehow didn't have an impact on labor conditions in the US? That business owners and the wealthy having access to almost free labor that they could subject to utterly inhumane conditions without consequence didn't shift the economy in ways that put non slaves in less ideal position than before?

@divineintervention6318

Жыл бұрын

it's still a problem.

@gerald9113

Жыл бұрын

@@remembertotakeshowerspleas355 Wait, are you saying that it's the fault of the people who were willing to work hard despite low wages? Instead of rectifying the exploitation and holding the exploiters accountable, you blame the exploited? Did you think those Chinese were so happy and fulfilled living on pennies? What are you suggesting exactly?

Rather fitting that this is published on July 1st which is Canada day. In Canada we had a similar law that called for a head tax on every Chinese immigrant, a very shameful part of Canada's history.

wow didn't know about this, just helping the video along

Great video

Others know not that in this quarrel we perish. He who knows this thereby has his quarrels calm down. Anger in excess is madness.

Tons of American history lately, and I'm loving it.

Ted Ed History videos are just awesome .

I didn't even know the existence of the Chinese Exclusion Act until this video. Thanks for always helping me learn new things, TED Ed :)

@depduc3615

2 жыл бұрын

Hello lee how are you doing?

U.S. Government: We welcome all people! Also U.S. Government: Now that you're here, we don't like your kind of people.

@unstables8237

2 жыл бұрын

ironic, right?

@ladygrinningsoul357

2 жыл бұрын

Hipocresía.

@fraderiktan1505

2 жыл бұрын

It all just because Chinese immigrant found success man that is like a bully jealous of the nerdy kid at school

@icrushchildrensdreams4556

2 жыл бұрын

It’s their country they can do whatever they want.

@upvotecomment2110

2 жыл бұрын

they've blurred the lines of being a citizen and their government so much. is it unreasonable to take these measures?

Not much has really changed with how the West treats China now. I'm sure in 100 years from today we'll look back on our current policies towards China and it's people in much the same way as this video

@Jose04537

2 жыл бұрын

It's curious how they always bring attention to things USA did decades, even centuries ago (a lot of them already fixed) and completely ignore what bad things said countries did RECENTLY. How the USA wronged China back in 1890s, and not how China is wronging the rest of the world and it's population RECENTLY? (Hong Kong, Uyghurs concentration camps and organs harvesting, invasion of Tibet, threatening Taiwan, The Famine during Mao Zedong, Tianamen Square, and much more). Why only address the bad things of one side, and only the good thing on the other side? The only videos with a diferrent approach where "Hystory vs" they stopped making.

@djtan3313

2 жыл бұрын

Yup.

@enrique5850

2 жыл бұрын

China is a murderous criminal dictatorship witch concentration camps, RIGHT NOW

@JYGoat

2 жыл бұрын

@@enrique5850 ever wondered what happened to the aborigines of the US? You wouldn’t want to know

@enrique5850

2 жыл бұрын

@@JYGoat and?

Happy 14.1m subscribed Ted Ed crew

@cophead9984

2 жыл бұрын

Cool

Nice video.

The land of freedom...

@Tiberon098

2 жыл бұрын

Or just about every single nation, empire, & government in all of human history.

@sebbyramirez2031

2 жыл бұрын

@@perfectogaming5240 r/woosh "You're not smart are you boy"

@perfectogaming5240

2 жыл бұрын

@@sebbyramirez2031 keep crying boy 👍😎

@lorisperfetto6021

2 жыл бұрын

@@perfectogaming5240 I insulted your country boy? Are you mad, boy? Sleep, boy

@perfectogaming5240

2 жыл бұрын

@@lorisperfetto6021 answer the question boy

I am very disappointed to think that many people in these countries still work hard to get to America. :(

@Mmmmmmmwwww

2 жыл бұрын

Because the US is very good with marketing, “land of free”, “freedom and democracy “ which none of these is true.

@jaydani1996

Жыл бұрын

They have a right to restirct to unwanted foreign aliens

@onlinedweller

3 ай бұрын

@@jaydani1996 they are the aliens

Well done to the TedX team

I love my country, but hate my government.

@tripmracek1580

2 жыл бұрын

Completely agree.

@shambhav9534

2 жыл бұрын

That's everyone in the world basically(except tribal people).

@quyenluong3705

2 жыл бұрын

then change it. DEMOCRACY! PEOPLE RULE!

@mr.e2962

2 жыл бұрын

@@quyenluong3705 watch the D word, we are a republic. When you talk about people rule, you reference rule by gang or mob rule.

@quyenluong3705

2 жыл бұрын

@@mr.e2962 oh is that so? that's not what you guys have been preaching around the world. It's all about individual rights. No lockdown because it's limiting the rights of the PEOPLE. blah blah blah.. everything is about individualism! We don't listen to the govnt because govnt has no rights to limit our rights... blah blah blah.

This is the reason why Grover Cleveland is one of the worst president in American history

5:30 "it wouldnt be the last time America violated human rights" ... yeah....

@funkydiscogod

2 жыл бұрын

And why should there ever be a last time? We need more human rights violations if you ask me. Also, I'm voting for Trump, not that you asked.

@fyviane

2 жыл бұрын

@@funkydiscogod i'm sorry i have to bring this to your awareness, but in civilised societes, it's generally considered bad to hurt people

@SM-xd2xv

2 жыл бұрын

@@funkydiscogod come'ere lemme violate your human rights

@victoria-ss8sz

2 жыл бұрын

@@funkydiscogod This is one of those trolls who try to damage the reputations of Trump supporters

@tripmracek1580

2 жыл бұрын

@@victoria-ss8sz agreed

5:24 this make me thinking of 吳冠中 Wu Guanzhong's painting style.

Good video.

As far as I know the US has still to ratify the Humans rights act.

@annoyingcat6980

2 жыл бұрын

Pog

@rickrolld1367

2 жыл бұрын

Bruh what

@momo9594

2 жыл бұрын

@@rickrolld1367 is there still the death penalty in the US?

@rickrolld1367

2 жыл бұрын

@@momo9594 Yes, and there's still solitary confinement, an even more egregious violation of human rights. Insanity street here I come!

@momo9594

2 жыл бұрын

@@rickrolld1367 well, the US aren't perfect for sure, but there are much worse.

See America you've always been this way.

@Pat2006

Жыл бұрын

Just Because i love america doesn't mean i support the bad things america did

Thank you for making this part of history heard again.

Reminds me of an old political comic that showed americas looking down on the immigrants while their shadows showed their ancestors also immigrated here

When people seem to be wealthier and prosperous, others take it as a serious problem to them and try to ruin the incidents. Benefit and property are the most issue that affect directly to human's action.

@MrStealthWarrior

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a big part of reasoning behind creation of USSR.

"the land of the free"

@mobilegamesonly3170

2 жыл бұрын

"- is America, the most free nation on earth." We fought the revolutionary war to be free of the crown. We fought the civil war and paid dearly in lives to free the slaves. We fought the fascists and the communists. And now we decide the bombing kids in syria is "freedom". Still better than 99% of nations, if not 100. We have the first amendment, to my knowledge the only one that has freedom of speech. We have the second amendment, to protect the first. We have rights that no other nation on earth has and we paid for it with blood.

@mechanikalbull5626

2 жыл бұрын

thailand

@mohsinbeigh9525

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

@garybrown2039

2 жыл бұрын

Considering what other countries are currently doing with the pandemic I agree that it still is. This country isn’t a saint but we’re a lot more tolerant.

@trollkenobi6727

Жыл бұрын

@@mobilegamesonly3170 glorifying history

Very amazing and informational video, love the animation❤️

This artwork is beautiful

Ted Ed’s videos are timeless

Currently H1B holder applying for green card, have not been able to apply for a visa to reentry Haven't gone home for 4 years Same story still happening

@idkhowtospelllol5551

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, I am half Chinese and my relatives have not been able to go back for almost ten years now trying to get a green card

I always enjoy these TedEd animations

This was in my high school US History textbook but the teacher never mentioned it or called attention to any racial injustices.

Funnily enough Chinese in this country despite all this are now doctors business owners and generally upstanding citizens if only everyone could follow their example

It is so sad that this anti-Chinese sentiment and propaganda never subsided and its lesson never learnt.

@amylau4086

2 жыл бұрын

I know, :( I feel so upset, I keep thinking 'Why would people hate me for things I never even did?' I don't carry the virus inside of me 24/7, and I'm on the other side of the earth, so how am *I* responsible for everything? But I still believe that in the future, discrimination against everyone will be gone, and things will be better. :)

@wotshish

2 жыл бұрын

@@amylau4086 'Why would people hate me for things I never even did?' try being blamed for slavery, and colonization, and jim crow and the middle east.

@amylau4086

2 жыл бұрын

@@wotshish Okay, yeah, I can understand that. I don't blame most Americans, just the ones that support discrimination. I haven't quite looked at it from others' point of view. Sorry :(

@gadzadhamgaacaan8488

2 жыл бұрын

@@wotshish you live in the US. You are enjoying the benefits of being a US citizen, then you bear the burdens too.

@bookqnome

2 жыл бұрын

@@wotshish :(

Never forget!

The Chinese Exclusion Act was the basis of the government’s claim that US-born Wong Kim Ark was not a citizen. The Supreme Court ruled in that case that birthright citizenship was absolute and not affected by the parents’ status.

I do hope that the day will come that a country, such as America, will cease to be significant to the world that one immigrant has to endure racism and call it justice.

Once I read a tele of Jack London that pictured the situations of how Chineses were treated in the 1800's in the US. I was really shocked for imaging how bad their lives were.

Lots of American history could be labeled "dark history..."

@xinfinity4756

2 жыл бұрын

Lots of history* could be labeled "dark history..."

@Ace7sankar

2 жыл бұрын

Lots of history could be labeled " dark history " ..

@Ace7sankar

2 жыл бұрын

@@xinfinity4756 you were 20 seconds ahead of me, we wrote the same thing.

@andromedamessier3176

2 жыл бұрын

Every history all over the world is dark history in my textbook. I still haven’t learn one good thing that humans have done yet.

@mrvn000

2 жыл бұрын

@@andromedamessier3176 Create internet?

The judge just made a plane of his papers *brutal*

And then they dare to ask not to rock the boat and stay "model minority"

For people who wants to know more, you can also look for "coolie" and the " Executive Order 9066" by Roosevelt.

who animated this? its gorgeous!

*"bUt WhAt AbOuT cHiNa NoW?!"* KZread comments a bit later.

@Jose04537

2 жыл бұрын

It's curious how they always scrape the bottom of the barrel, bringing attention to things USA did decades, even centuries ago (a lot of them already fixed) and completely ignore what bad things other countries did RECENTLY. How the USA wronged China centuries ago, and not how China is wronging the rest of the world and it's population RECENTLY? (Hong Kong, Uyghurs concentration camps and organs harvesting, invasion of Tibet, threatening Taiwan, The Famine during Mao Zedong, Tianamen Square, and much more). Why only address the bad things of one side, and only the good thing on the other side? At least in the USA you don't get actively censored and persecuted for talking about it. The people alive today is only responsible for the present, not the past.

@andreoka

2 жыл бұрын

do you think your silly capitalization of the rethoric is a valid argument? No.