The Treatment of Aboriginals and Chinese People in Australia by the European settlers

Aboriginals were the oldest people who ever lived in Australia many years ago before Europeans arrived. European settlers treated these individuals harshly. They were violent toward Aboriginals and caused clashes to displace these individuals from their original settlements. Some Aborigines died due to wars and the illnesses that Europeans introduced to Australia (Blakemore, 2019). When European settlers occupied Aboriginals’ settlements and farms, they laid down fences to prevent these people from returning. Some Aboriginals who tried to trespass were killed. Moreover, European introduced new ways of farming that disrupted Aborigines’ lifestyles. For example, they reared rabbits and sheep, which devastated the environment. As such, Aboriginals' hunting grounds and sources of food were affected adversely. On the contrary, Chinese immigrants arrived in Australia in the 1850s. They came to the country as cooks, rural laborers, gardeners, and shepherds. Since the Chinese peo...