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=__**CHINESE EMIGRATION TODAY V.S. THE 1800s**__= BY CIARA MERKSICK

__Why People Leave China__ ‍‍‍From Asia, Chinese immigrants continue to arrive in America where they are able to work hard so they can fill their dreams of a better life. ‍‍ ‍‍Beacause of the impacts the Chinese put on the people they met in the past we now have a better life. Acording to Scolastics.com, in the 1800s about 90,000 people from China emigrated to the U.S. for food and to escape poverty. And now in 2010-2012 about 10,000,000 Asian immigrants are still going to the U.S. for food because of their country being overpopulated with so many generations. ‍‍ ‍From the stuggles they have on us to the stuggles they have on themselfs today, are entoxecating that we judge them on how they speak and how they react instead of looking deeper and realising that they aren't different from us at all. When the Gold Rush ended in the 1850s, the Chinese were just thought of as cheap work. But, today they have their own Chinatown's, and the biggest one is in New York City, where almost 100,000 Chinese American Residents live and work. But, still even though they have a place to call "home", acording to professor Tracey Derwing who co-authored the study with NorQuest College says that "Mandarin speakers over time are becoming harder to understand over time." But still, others seem to think that the attitude of the learner is how much effort they put in and a Mainland Chinese woman named Li proved that the attitude can make a difference. And Li quoted that, "If you cannot listen or speak proper English, you feel discouraged to participate in a conversation because you are afraid others don’t understand you,” she said at age fifty-two to Thestar.com. ‍

‍Acording to pbs.org, in the 1850s the Chinese //first// flocked the U.S. eager to try their luck on the gold rush and get away from the economic chaos in their country, but most got rejected from the U.S. Though today they make up the largest Asian population in the U.S.A., totaling to 2.5 million Chinese immigrants out of about 10,000,000 people emigrating from Asia.‍

So, even though some critisize them online the Chinese have a 4,000 year-old culture they have spent 150 years here in America.