Strangers From A Different Shore Chapter 9

I'm beginning to get the idea: lots of discrimination against lots of ethnicities:  Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipinos, and Indian.

In the first few pages, Takaki provides evidence that the first Filipino immigrants were overwhelmed and clueless.  For instance, many of them were "swept" into taxis which charged them way more than it would have been to take the bus.  There was also Juan Dionisio who didn't realize that he was working for "'a house of prostitution.'"  He implies a large cultural gap in between Filipinos and white Americans.

What specific differences between Filipino culture and Mid-Northern Asiatic cultures lead to the vast difference in positions favored by members of each?  Or was it the timing and nature of immigration, as many differences such as contract vs non-contract and early 1900s vs 1930s.

"A threat to white racial purity" is what the Filipino men were perceived as.  it wasn't just Filipino men that were discouraged / prohibited from marrying white women.  Was the issue of "white racial purity" just as valid a reason for the inability of Chinese men to marry white women?

The point that immigrant men had sexual issues such as going through adolescence seems to be emphasized more with Filipino men than with Chinese men, with the only real reference there being use of brothels.  Did Takaki not have as much to write about in terms of the Filipinos, or did he simply not have time to focus so specifically on the sexual obstacles facing immigrants of other nationalities?

The dancing at dance halls for the Filipinos served them in the same way that gambling served other immigrant ethnicities.  It helped them to "forget the humiliations, abuse, and racial violence" that they experienced.