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What was life like for the Chinese children on the Australian goldfields?
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∙ 14y ago
The Australian gold fields were rife with racism and xenophobia. because of the differences between the cultures of the Europeans and the Chinese there would have been little contact between Chinese and European children. In any case there were very few children brought along from China because it took a lot of saving for a Chinese person to get to Australia. he was even charged extra to enter the country. I am not Chinese and I arrived in Australia in 1958 I did not speak a word of English when I got here from Holland, luckily I was white and looked European so most of the time I did not get bulled by the Australian kids. this would have often been the problem in those early days as well. The Chinese kids would have had the problem of always looking different and having to learn to put up with the bigotry that remained a big part of Australian culture. This is why to this day there are still many Chinese community's found all over Australia.
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