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My Understanding of China-Australia Relation: Problems There are three kind of problems in the history of China Australia relation namely racial conflicts, third party problems and trade problems. Racial conflicts As I knew there are mainly two reasons for the Australia racial conflicts that days. Firstly, competition. It is said that there were about 40 thousand Chinese living in Australia in the year of 1858. They had several features including hard-working, gambling, opium smoking, etc. Searching only for gold, they did they best to find all gold they would find even in the closed mine. Because of this competition the white fought against Chinese settling in Australia. Secondly, theory. Apart from competition, the theory of social Darwinism is also an important factor leaded to the White Australia Policy afterwards. Australian who held this opinion often thought that they are the advanced race and the Chinese is like animals as dogs, wolf and etc. To build a country with bright future Chinese and other colored people should be deported. Opposite to the White Australia Policy, in the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 the government said a multi-racialism country is rational and necessary. But that did not change the situation quickly. In the 1990s there are many students went there for further study. Many students were treated unequally by their professors and classmates. Do the Chinese face such problems nowadays? Compared to most other countries, No. Compared to a theoretical ideal, yes. Even though many people agree that Australia is still a racist country, but the colored with competency will always be respected. How people view the question of whether or not Australia is a racialist country or not in survey? Those grew up with the White Australia Policy are always terribly embarrassingly racist. Who these racialism discriminate? Normally speaking all other races except those come from southern Europeans. A 12-year-survey, conducted by leading universities, found NSW and QLD to be the most racist state, while Victoria was one of the most tolerant. 23.8% among 12512 people surveyed Australia-wide were negative towards Asians. Chinese is not the most who are unwelcome, the most discriminated is the Aboriginal and the Muslims.
Oct 1, 2014 10:09 AM