Chinese restaurants became common in the United States before the 1964 immigration reform in part because people exploiting a weird loophole in the Chinese Exclusion Act.
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We need more Thai restaurants. Maybe Korean, Japanese, Colombian, Peruvian… Damn! I’m just hungry…
It's important to understand that the "Chinese Exclusion Act" was a series of measures that steadily escalated over time.
A reminder of the problems with "travel bans" and what not, what starts small, soon grows big.
Fun fact, the Chinese Exclusion Act reduced white male
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another fun legal history quirk is apparently many Chinese restaurateurs were in better position to survive prohibition because they didn't rely on alcohol sales as part of their business
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