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The racism in a Vancouver, Canada newspaper shows the anti-Asian sentiment of the time.

Date: 1907

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The paper writes: "Eleven hundred & seventy-seven of the little brown men were on the steamer...The decks were crowded with the swarming Japanese, who covered her from stem to stern like a swarm of ants."