coolies in English

noun
1
an unskilled native laborer in India, China, and some other Asian countries.
noun
noun
    cooly

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1. Our forefathers came here and worked hard as coolies – weren't ashamed to become coolies – and they didn't send their money back to China.

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3. One day four coolies came with a huge sea turtle for sale.

4. He then fights for the Coolies rights and faces challenges from a businessman.

5. Coolies are at the bottom of the social ladder and treated badly by

6. Early nineteenth century Chinese workers in the United States were called “Coolies,” which soon acquired a pejorative connotation.

7. In 1727, Dr. Engelbert Kämpfer described "coolies" as dock labourers who would unload Dutch merchant ships at Nagasaki in Japan.

8. Anand shows how the racial and class hierarchies imposed by British colonialism have intersected, or overlaid, the existing caste system to make life impossible for “Coolies”.