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Originally Posted by Locke
And then the Japanese....China...Does Rwanda have a team?
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Our home country has plenty of ugly too. Even with respect to migrant workers we should probably not forget the estimated 4000+ Chinese immigrants who died building the national railroad across Canada.
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Between 1880 and 1885, 17,000 men emigrated from China, most from the province of Kwangtung (Guangdong). By some estimates, more than 4,000 workers died during the construction. In addition to facing racist discrimination, the immigrants were often given the most dangerous jobs in the already dangerous task of blasting through the Rocky Mountains to lay the Western section of the track. Many were killed by landslides, cave-ins, disease, and explosions. Despite the high risk involved in their work, Chinese were paid half as much as other workers.
The Chinese Railroad Workers Memorial in Toronto was erected to commemorate the contribution and sacrifice of these workers, who remained nameless in the history of Canada. After the railroad was complete, many of the immigrants who survived could not find new jobs. As a plaque on the memorial reads: “With no means of going back to China when their labour was no longer needed, thousands drifted in near destitution along the completed track.”
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https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/...rkers-memorial
I expect no one passes the history test very well, and our righteous indignation should probably be limited significantly.