The Americans divided the Chinese into four categories: wholesale and retail merchants, trade workers (such as water-bearers, boatmen and cooks), general laborers, and servants.
當時在菲律賓的華人，被美國人分為批發商、零售商，以及挑水漢、船夫、伙夫特殊專長工人，還有一般工人、僕人四等。