And you have never watched video's like those. Some how I don't believe you!!! It is always interesting to see people make total fools of themselves and that is what people telling others they are not real Americans are doing. Of course that is only my opinion, what is yours?
1763 --
First known Filipino settlement in America was recorded in the bayous of St. Malo, near the city of New Orleans.
1815 -- Battle of New Orleans
The Battle of New Orleans became the final major battle of the War of 1812. Outnumbered American forces commanded by Major General Andrew Jackson defeated an invading British Army intent on seizing New Orleans and the vast territory the United States had acquired from the Louisiana Purchase. Many Manilamen joined the U.S. Army and fought against the British. It was the first involvement of Filipinos in America's war.
1806-1862 -- "Coolie" Trade
British end of African slave trade spurs "Coolie" trade to replace slaves throughout the Caribbean, Central and South America.
As British ships stopped the trade in African slaves, Latin American landowners and others with requirements for large, cheap labor forces turned to Asia for their needs. This form of indentured servitude was supposed to act as a transition phase, at least in the tropics between slavery and wage labor. The plight of the British West Indian sugar planters, where sugar production had dropped by one-third because of the loss of labor, carried more weight in the arguments between moral beliefs and the pragmatic need for labor. In July 1844, British authorities opened up the emigration of Indians to British colonies.
-- James L. Huseman, "
The Chinese in Costa Rica, 1855-1897"
1882 --
Chinese Six Companies foundedBegun to promote community cooperation and to protect ethnic identity in the face of discrimination and violence against first-generation Chinese immigrants in the Chinatown district of San Francisco, the Chinese Six Companies quickly grew into a powerful national organization that worked to defend the civil and political rights of Chinese Americans in the face of increasingly anti-Chinese federal legislation enacted by the U.S. Congress between 1880 and 1920.
1863 -- Chinese workers commence building railroads
A worried Charles Crocker, one of the railroad barons, decided to try out fifty Chinese -- miners, laundry men, domestic servants, labourers and market gardeners. You wouldn't think, from their diminutive build, that they would be much good at it, but the Chinese proved such satisfactory workers -- so "quiet, peaceable, patient, industrious and economical," the President of the company was to observe -- that the Central Pacific had twelve to fourteenth thousand of them on its payroll before the project was finished.
Lynn Pan,
Sons of the Yellow Emperor
1869 -- Transcontinental Railroad completed
1870 -- Anti-Chinese movement begins
Seeking the end of Chinese immigration, violence, race riots, and destruction of property are among the tactics directed against Chinese scapegoats. Popular poetry reflected the racism toward the Chinese.
That for ways that are dark,
And for tricks that are vain,
The heathen Chinese is peculiar--
Which the same I am free to maintain.
Francis Bret Harte,
Plain Language from Truthful James, "
Table Mountain, 1870"
1869 -- Frederick Douglass rails against the anti-Chinese campaign
I want a home here not only for the negro, the mulatto and the Latin races; but I want the Asiatic to find a home here in the United States, and feel at home here, both for his sake and for ours.
--
Frederick Douglass
Are those people's descendents not real Americans. I think they are.
If it were me, I'd be a bit wary of considering that a defining characteristic of my countrymen.