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>It is worth recalling that the Chinese came to this country in large numbers around 75 years ago, during the great mining and railroad-building era of the West. In the West 75 years ago a Chinese was but a bare notch above a coyote in the social scale. The Chinese got their start there at a time when there was no “race conflict.” Those who conflicted were promptly extinguished by men accustomed to dispatching Indians and rattlesnakes. Such a social chasm minimized the chances of racial antagonism. (Ralph Townsend, "Ways That Are Dark")