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The Chinese Experience } Quiz Answer

6. Approximately what percentage of the "bachelors" — the men who populated America's Chinatowns until the 1960s — were actually married?

a) 5%
b) 10%
c) 20%
d) 50%

Incorrect! You answered (c) 20%.

The correct answer is (d) 50% of these men were actually married, but the Exclusion Act prevented them from bringing their wives over from China. As Bill Moyers says in the series, these years tell a story, "of a people in between countries, often unsure to which they belonged. It's about families kept apart — lives shaped and mis-shaped by Chinese custom as well as U.S. law."
Eyewitness: Charlie Chin - The End of Bachelor Society

Old 'bachelors' Leo Ong, Leo You, Leo Chee and Leo Yick

Old "bachelors" Leo Ong, Leo You, Leo Chee and Leo Yick. Photo Credit: Sweetwater County Historical Society


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