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 * __Chinese Immigration__**

In 1853 the news about the Australian Gold Rush reached China.The Europeans didn't like the Chinese because they were very hard workers.There was ignorance about the Chinese customs and culture.Europeans thought that they were superior to the Chinese.They were afraid that the Chinese were taking European jobs.The Chinese seemed to be very strange and different to the western diggers.The diggers were suspicious of the Chinese,resentful of their mining methods. In 1885 the Chinese people entering Victoria would have to pay 10 pound tax and 1 pound protection fee.Chinese diggers were subject to growing resentment on the gold fields. European miners were angered by an increasing Chinese presence in the fields, and on several occasions violently lashed out at the Chinese camps in an attempt to drive them away. The Europeans did not like it that the Europeans were taking gold out of Australia and back to China. There were many things that the Europeans thought were strange about the Chinese diggers, such as the way that they dressed, wore their hair in long pigtails, their method of traveling( in large groups), their small eyes and how they carried long poles with baskets on each end.

The Chinese worked hard and found more gold than the Europeans. They left the Chinese Immigrants their leftover claims but the Chinese still found large sums of gold that the Europeans had missed. This made the Europeans very angry, they called the Chinese “long tailed devils”.

The Europeans made laws that all furniture made by Chinese, must be stamped “Asian labor only”. They also attacked Chinese camps to try and drive them away. Chinese were trampled and beaten by Europeans. Their camps were burnt and robbed too.

Eventually Chinese have been welcomed and excepted in Australia.

Written by Rukshi.P and Brittany.K.