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This is just a guess, but during the gold rush they were cooks and diggers.

Cooks: They would cook a lot of Chinese food that all the gold diggers loved which they would of made bundles of money and gold.

Diggers: they would just dig for gold and hope for the best.

But in most cases they would be discriminated against any attacked for their race.

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