After many years of famine and poverty plaguing the land of China hundreds of thousands of Chinese in seek of opportunity began immigrating to the United States. Many motivated by the discovery of gold in California others came to the United States to seek better economic opportunity. Yet there were others that were compelled to leave China either as contract laborers or refugees. The Chinese brought with them their language, culture, social institutions, and customs. …showed first 75 words of 1115 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1115 total…and Seattle. By the earlier twentieth century, approximately over eighty percent of the Chinese population were found in Chinatowns in major cities in the United States. In Sum Chinese Americans have made an indelible mark upon what can be considered the national American culture. Their customs, their food, their dress, their art, and their voices have been added to the Nation of Immigrants in which creates the unique melting pot experience of the United States.