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The Promise of Gold Mountain: Tucson's Chinese Heritage (8546 words) |
 | Moreover, in the north, Mexicans began to focus a widespread, general hatred of foreigners more narrowly on the Chinese, who were numerous and visible in their capacity as small local merchants, yet totally vulnerable because of China's own internal chaos and weak international position. |
| Before the Revolution, the Mexican workers directed their hostility primarily toward the American owners and managers -- as was clearly the case during the 1914 strike -- but during the Revolution, they also turned on the large Chinese colony with a vengeance. |
| The Chinese monopolized the garden industry, he charged; they were not good citizens because they sent money earned in Mexico out of the country, "instead of spending it here as other foreigners do." Worst of all, in running laundries and restaurants, they took traditional work away from Mexican women. |
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