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6. Approximately what percentage of the "bachelors" the men who populated America's Chinatowns until the 1960s were actually married?
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
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 Old "bachelors" Leo Ong, Leo You, Leo Chee and Leo Yick. Photo Credit: Sweetwater County Historical Society |