Thursday, September 19, 2013
Chapter 6
During our class discussion of enclave neighborhoods, I posed the question as to why there weren't so many Australian neighborhoods for my dad when he came here, and I was fully satisfied with the answer but, then I got to thinking about the rate of Australian immigration in the 19th century and I found some information, and it wasn't as dramatic as I had hoped. In the 19th century Australia was just being colonized it's self, when the American Colonies had won they're independence. This meant that they had lost they're dumping ground for criminals and needed a new one. It became Australia. when the colony was first being established there was 1023 of which a little less then half were convicts. So the reason that there was not a high level of immigration from Australia to the United States is because there were not a lot of people there to begin with.
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When I went to Australia to speak at a Medical Conference in Sydney, I heard about the colonial criminals marooned on Australia. I found it interesting as well. I did see many different races and cultures represented in Sydney while sightseeing, but in more inland areas such as Toowoomba, it was much less diverse. I saw only white faces. Lets not forget the native Aborigines though too in Australia.
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