Hello bloggers today I will be talking about gold mining and discrimination
Gold mining & discrimination is all about the gold rush that happened here in New Zealand mainly Otago Dunedin. It was very rare cause there were mainly like tiny specs of it but sometimes if you are at there at the right time you might find a massive nugget of gold. People would dig for days sometimes even months just for this gold. You might just find gold and try to sell it but it might turn out to be fools gold. Fool’s gold is a type of rock that looks like gold but its actually just a shiny rock looking thing.
During the 1800s thousands of Chinese people left there homes and rode a boat to earn money on the gold fields. The voyage from China to New Zealand was very dangerous and very far. Very bad storms could of happened. When the Chinese people came there just stood out and there luggage was made out of bamboo baskets and they carried the luggage on there back. The Chinese people were abused on the Goldfield. There were jeered and also received beatings or had stones thrown at them.
Because of their language and the culture and also the unfriendliness of the Europeans. The Chinese people had to support each other from the hate. They didn’t want to live close to the Europeans of the abuse and beatings so they would live far away from them. The miners were very hard workers they didn’t give up until they got the job done.
The poem I just read which is called following gold I think what he meant was that on the first line he meant he left his home hoping to find gold and has a lot of question like what if he doesn’t find gold or maybe what if the someone finds out I found gold. The second line is basically saying is what are the chances of finding gold and whats the fate of him stumbling upon gold. The next one means what if someone else find gold and the person in the poem is determined to get that gold. The following line is about him keeping gold close to him self just incase someone takes it. The last two are about i’m not to sure.
Here are some facts about Chinese gold miners
- Ah Lum saved a British miner from drowning and he became a hero
- The Chinese people came from Guangdong Province Also known as in Southern China
- The area that the Chinese came from was very overpopulated and still shaken by the opium war.
Here is a DLO I made
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