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bad, they had to endure many difficulties and challenges such as scurvy, poor (no pun intended) pay, the most dangerous jobs such as blasting through solid granite with tnt and the whites alienated the Chinese by their appearance. They had a rather racist nickname for the Chinese called "coolies". Most Chinese people didn't even save up enough money to go home>

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