these women were sent to America as prostitutes, and lived as virtual slaves in the enclaves of Chinatown. Thus, Americans began to view all Chinese women as whores.
             The entire Chinese culture in America suffered because of the ban on immigration. "The almost total exclusion of Chinese immigration had devastating long-run effects on Chinese Americans. Because the early Chinese immigration was almost exclusively male, all hope of a normal social or family life was destroyed for the great majority of the Chinese population of the United States." 4 Most of these men could not afford the return trip to China, thus, after
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