C
. Chinese immigrants endured discrimination based on hatred.
Explanation:
Chinese immigrants faced discrimination based on hatred and racism. The Chinese Must Go started in the period of 1850s before federal border control established strict divisions between citizens and immigrants. Across decades, Chinese workers faced escalating racial conflict and unrest due to their alien nature which increases fear among the people of immigrants.
It is true that semantics (a branch of language dealing with the meaning of words) considers both the connotation (the feelings a word evokes in you) and the denotation (the actual meaning of the word) of words.
