Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Chinese's experience in Australia, the five W's.
Who were they?
· They were the Chinese
Why did they come to
Australia?
· Hoping to find Gold, as Victoria was having a
‘gold rush’
· Once all the gold was gone most still
continued to stay in Australia as farmers or owners of fruit and vegetable
business.
When did they come
to Australia?
· In 1861 most of Victoria’s population was
Chinese
Where did they go?
· Victoria
What kind of work
did they do?
· First they came to Australia to find gold
· Once there wasn’t any gold left they stayed and
worked in fruit and vegetable businesses.
Racism in the society today.
Today’s society there is still some racism in different
people of the world, shown in 2010 in Melbourne when an Indian man was stabbed
to death in the city trying to promote a travel
review from the Indian government. The man only just graduated university and
was attack, stabbed and set alight but police found there wasn’t any motive
from the attackers just racism.
Another explain of
racism in the society today was also in 2010 when a man only 29 years old
walking home with his wife was ganged up by a gang of four as they poured fluid
all over the man’s body and set him alight. The man was put in hospital for
many months as he had burns on 15% of his body.
Racism is still around
today and over the years to come there will be more attacks and cruel things
said to people of the opposite colour. Racism has been around since the black and
white coloured people had to be around together and hopefully one day won’t end
up with people getting hurt, emotionally or physically.
Tuesday, 5 June 2012
Mongolian Octopus cartoon.
The Mongolian
Octopus could mean the labour of children, the robbery of place, opium, smallpox,
pakahpu, bribery and fan-tan. The meaning of it is to show things that were a
major issue back then.
Children getting
used for jobs adults could be doing and getting paid a lot less while getting
hurt on the job for not doing it. In the cartoon of the Mongolian Octopus shows
children getting used for labour. Robbery was a major issue back than with
families trying to be feed and having to end of stealing food to feed the
family, people also became to turn to bribery, trying to feed their family and
get medicine and other items. Shown in the cartoon stealing. Smallpox is a
disease mainly got back than, meaning people’s skin was ruined by the virus
going around. People became to act ‘immorality’.
This was all shown
in the Mongolian Octopus cartoon.
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