Chinese immigrants were often discriminated against because they were easy to spot. They spoke a different language and looked different physically. Irish immigrants, however, had an easier time blending in because they had similar physical characteristics to Americans. They weren't so easy to spot in a crowd. Erika Lee states, “Immigrants have been excluded and restricted based on their race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, moral standing, health, and political affiliation, among other factors.” (Lee, p. 39) Lee is saying that Americans will do anything to discriminate against immigrants. If immigrants were distinguished by their physical characteristics they could be more easily targeted by society. Those immigrants who could integrate better were more likely to be included within a society. Racially, those who were different were not wanted in America, but why? The Americans liked the idea of ​​having a transnational race. When immigrants of another race arrived and began breeding with white American people, cultures began to mix and racial lines became blurred. Erika Lee states, “It provided a powerful framework, model, and set of tools to use to further understand and racialize other threatening, excludable, and undesirable aliens.” (Lee, p. 42) In this quote Lee states how, with the exclusion of the Chinese, this further pushed Americans to be more discriminatory towards immigrants based solely on race. This