Evident in other various episodes relating to Chinese ethnicity (Scarlato 2, 3):
Example 1: “[...] you had to be registered to vote, but in 1930 the Chinese didn’t have the vote.” (Wang 56).
An example of the classism experienced by Chinese immigrants in Canada throughout history.
Chinese Canadians were only allowed to vote after 1947 (Chan).
The vote is not just placing specific people in charge but it is a manner of decision and free expression.
The reason for which the vote was repressed was to prevent the proletariat from achieving further status and further keep them in poverty.
Example 2: “Those who died were buried in a field of white crosses.” (Wang, We Two Alone 113).
The “white crosses” represent the everlasting domination of colonizers across the world and the presence of their everlasting atrocities.
Many deaths were recorded of coloured peoples under unfair living conditions dying of smallpox (Centres for Disease Control), which demonstrated how they were treated as lumpenproletariat at this point in history.
Example 3: “It was a different world yesterday.” (Wang, We Two Alone 98).
The different world that has been created describes how social classes were established overnight and artificially created to separate the unity of human beings.
The reason for this is that the Nazis, as the bourgeoisie, would be able to maintain control over the rest of the proletariat German population or the lumpenproletariat Jewish population.