The Chinese immigrants were not welcomed by locals when they first arrived in the American continent. The United States even enacted the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882.

踏上美洲大陆之初，华人群体并不为当地所容纳，美国甚至在1882年通过了《排斥华人法案》。

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By eighteen eighty-two, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act.

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