Chinese immigrants have played a significant role in Australian history‚ and have influenced our culture‚ economy‚ and how society perceives them. The purpose of this essay is to answer the following key question: How has Chinese migration had a significant impact on Australian economy and Australian culture? This key question will be divided into three inquiry questions in order to frame and direct this essay: Who are Chinese migrants and why did they migrate to Australia?; How have Chinese migrants
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GUANXI AND ITS ROLE IN THE CHINESE BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENT AND WHAT THIS MEANS FOR NON-CHINESE BUSINESS PEOPLE IN CHINA Guanxi Guanxi is a Chinese term that literally means “relationships”. It stands for any type of relationship‚ whether it is a family relationship‚ or a relationship between friends. “Guanxi is the basic dynamic in personalized networks of influence‚ and is a central concept in Chinese society” (Wikipedia). The culture of guanxi is based on family‚ school‚ workplace‚ and
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In American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang‚ the main theme would have to be identity. Despite the graphic novel consisting of three separate storylines‚ the main characters in the book all share the same issue – being uncomfortable with whom they are and connected to. If one were to simplify and boil the message of the book down to one word‚ it would be self-acceptance. The morals of identity and self-acceptance are what American Born Chinese is about. Yang’s novel serves as a reminder that we must
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forcing the Chinese to pay head taxes reveal Canada’s racist and unjust past. There is a significant relationship between the increasing amount of head taxes and the decreasing Chinese population in Canada. With the Gold Rush in the 1860s‚ many Chinese immigrants arrived in Canada to search for a fortune of their own. Little did they know that the head taxes would increase from fifty dollars to five hundred dollars in a matter of three years (n.a.‚ Taxing) to reduce the numbers of Chinese immigrants
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joining work camps or bettering themselves through private business in the US. What is not necessarily common knowledge is the response to this increase in immigration by U.S. citizens‚ whose population were predominantly made of “White” Americans. Chinese Immigrants were socially‚ politically‚ verbally‚ and many cases physically abused at the hands of “White” natural born citizens. The political cartoon featured
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Achelous: River god; son of Oceanus and Tethys and said to be the father of the Sirens. Acheron: One of several Rivers of Underworld. Achilles: Greek warrior; slew Hector at Troy; slain by Paris‚ who wounded him in his vulnerable heel. Actaeon: Hunter; surprised Artemis bathing; changed by her to stag; and killed by his dogs. Admetus: King of Thessaly; his wife‚ Alcestis‚ offered to die in his place. Adonis: Beautiful youth loved by Aphrodite. Aeacus: One of three judges of dead in Hades; son of
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The goddess I personally love is Persephone‚ the queen of the underworld. A quick lay down of the tale of Persephone‚ which will be more in detail later on. Persephone is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. She was abducted by Hades‚ the God of the underworld‚ enraged her mother‚ who made the crops and the green of the earth‚ made earth wither and barren. Zeus involved oneself and tried to save Persephone from Hades; Nevertheless‚ Persephone ate the seeds of a pomegranate that Hades had given her‚
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The image of the flowering plum has been played a popular role throughout Chinese paintings and poetry. What was the significance of the flowering plum motif during the Southern Song Dynasty (960-1279)? The period of the Song dynasty (960-1279) was particularly noted for its artistic achievements. Although landscape paintings of the Northern Song (960-1127) was predominant during this period‚ flower painting became equally as important during the Southern Song (1127-1279) where artists tended
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despite this‚ its mythology still continues to influence our western society. References to Greek mythology can be found all through time and in our western culture. The influence of Greek mythology can be found in our science‚ arts and literature and our language. When Ancient Greece fell to the Roman Empire‚ Rome adapted its mythologies which still influence us today as they have through history. That is not to say that Greek mythology wasn’t influenced itself – Greek mythology has links with the
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The Mandarin Chinese language (and all other dialects of Chinese including Cantonese) lacks any kind of overt inflectional morphology. In Chinese‚ words are typically formed by one or two written characters. Each character is monosyllabic and can usually stand alone as an unbound morpheme‚ making inflectional changes more or less impossible. As a result‚ the Chinese language family has no method of overtly expressing tense‚ number‚ gender‚ etc. Instead of inflectional changes‚ Chinese uses context
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