Youthful Viciousness Summary

The author of “Youthful Viciousness”, is a lawyer who helped the protestors, is against the segregation of the Chinese in British Columbia. The lawyer stated that if British Columbia continues with the discrimination of different ethnicities it could have profound consequences and a negative impact on the society. For he states “Some of whom are vivacious hoodlums, and whose bad example is followed by smaller boys.” As well as “If boys are encouraged to wantonly assault Chinese in this way one of these days, as a result there will be a dead Chinaman or white boy.” He provides an example, of a severe incident that happened in March, 1907 involving the discrimination of Chinese Immigrants, “a little Chinese boy, carrying a school bag containing

Hastings is the organizer of the school strike. His perspective on the school segregation in the British Columbia educational system is against the segregation of children based on their ethnicity. For “he agreed to conduct the fight of the Chinese against separate classes for Chinese children. The main allegation made by the Victoria School Board was that Chinese Immigrants did not have a fundamental understanding of English. However, Mr. Hastings contradicts this statement by stating that, “The fact was that they (referring to Chinese children) stood at the very top of their classes.” As well as that it was “Less expensive and more secure to educate your child in this country rather than in China because of the very unsettling conditions around Canton.” In the protest the children of Chinese descent resumed going to their classes in the Victoria school system, and were specifically told not to accept any certificates. This action was described as “a clever way of trying to divide the community against itself.” In Mr. Hastings point of view he thought “the educated and enlightened part of the public in Victoria was swung over to the Chinese side.” In retrospect, Mr. Hastings was in full support of the integration of Chinese children in the Victoria educational system and was the organizer of the school strike in order to stop the discrimination of Chinese children in Victoria’s public