For many years it was common in the United States to associate Chinese Americans with restaurantsand laundres1.People did not realize that the Chinese had been driven into these occupations by theprejudice2 and discrimination that faced them in this country. The first Chinese to reach the United States came during the California Gold Rush3 of 1849.Like mostof the other people there,they had come to search for gold.In that largely unoccupied land,the men staked4a claim for themselves by placing markers in the ground.However.either because the Chinese were so For many years it was common in the United States to associate Chinese Americans with restaurantsand laundres1.People did not realize that the Chinese had been driven into these occupations by theprejudice2 and discrimination that faced them in the country. The first Chinese to reach the United States Came during the California Gold Rush3 of 1849.Like most of the other people there, it was had to search for gold.In that largely unoccupied land,the men staked4a claim for themselves by placing markers in the ground.However.either because the Chinese were So