Chinese Australian

Chinese Immigration-Report INTRODUCTION Modern Day Australia has become a vast multicultural society complete with people of diverse ethnic backgrounds. This aspect has developed over a time period of immigration to the great extent that people of different cultures can now call Australia their home. Immigrants in the past years have become a crucial part of Australia as they have benefited the community by assisting and introducing the development of an inclusive and accepting nation. GOLD FRENZY WHICH CHANGED A NATION A discovery of gold in a waterhole in Bathurst in 1851, by a man named Edward Hargraves, had a profound impact on Australia and the rest of the world. People came in their thousands from places globally hoping to strike gold…

Australians have long represented many features, and like the Ancient Greeks, they only show the ideal representations of their characters, take the best of the features and mix them together. These constructions, or rather stereotypes; are just that, a general representation, one which has been idealized. Since the beginning of the colonization of Australia by the British, Australians have represented themselves as egalitarian, giving everyone a “fair go”. These representations give a bad…

Croft, Destiny Deacon, Michael Cook, James Tylor, Ricky Maynard, Michael Riley, Brook Andrew, Leah King-Smith and Tony Albert. After viewing the exhibition, it becomes apparent that Over the Fence is not just a collection of photographs by artists that share a similar cultural heritage. Instead, it is a deeply personal and reflective view of Australian society through the lens of…

treatment of native peoples all over the world has been an issue for centuries. In the eyes of today’s society it is seen as unacceptable and inhumane but to those in power at the time these measures may have seemed like the best way to an ideal country. An example of this can be seen in the Aboriginal Australians, who weren’t even seen as humans until 1967 and the native Americans, that had their country taken away from them and their traditional ways disrupted beyond belief. Before the 1962…

In the Australian Model, author Tim Southommasane touches upon the idea of multiculturism in Australia. The reading starts out with Southommasane describing fond memories of his home town, Carbramatta, a suburb of Sydney which at one point served as the nation’s drug capitol. Southommasane relates a sense of pride of having grown up in a town that represents such a cultural melting pot. The Cabramatta freedom gate currently bears a number of incriptions, all in English, Chinese,…

over Britain. Chinese, entertainers, publicans, liquor sellers, and prostitutes from across the world joined them in pursuit of a better life. The British governor in Victoria tried to impose law and order, but the use of mandatory licenses and heavy-handed troops led to intense struggle of Eureka stockade in 1854. In 1880, both Melbourne and Sydney became modish cities, due to immense investments for gold and wool, despite aggression on the gold fields; Australia became a nation on 1 January…

of history are open-minded and that there is no information asymmetry between them. Saying this, Australia is in a unique perspective to acknowledge its ‘shared sense of history’. The history of Australia has often been surrounded with much stigma that has stemmed from the disdained treatment that the Aboriginal people received from the first English “settlers” in 1788. The vast difference between these two cultures has led to a conflict filled chapter of Australian history that is often over…

yet to achieve. Firstly, the aboriginal civil rights movement 's political achievements meaning achievements that directly relate to law and legislation, are extremely influential if you recognize where we have come from. In 1901 the white Australia policy excluded indigenous Australians from the vote and pensions. The roots of this policy can be seen all the way back in 1850 with the white miner 's hatred to the Chinese…

individuals backgrounds, both social and cultural. This gives rise to context, which in turn, is influenced by each persons social and cultural background, and the social situation that they are in. According to Ethnologue (Lewis, Simons & Fennig 2016) there are currently 7097 known languages in the world today. Chinese (and its many dialects) is the most commonly spoken language in the world, it is spoken by 1,302,000,000 people, English is far less at only 339,000,000 (Lewis et al 2016). As…

brothers were not happy to accept this law and so decided to use force to capture the three sisters causing a major tribal battle. As the lives of the three sisters were seriously in danger, a witchdoctor from the Katoomba tribe took it upon himself to turn the three sisters into stone to protect them from any harm. While he had intended to reverse the spell when the battle was over, the witchdoctor himself was killed. As only he could reverse the spell to return the ladies to their former…