Migrant Experience In Australia Poem Analysis
How does your poem and the related text material convey the changing attitudes of the migrant experience in Australia in the 20th and 21st Centuries?
Today Australia is known as a multicultural society even though for the past few centuries migration and immigrants have been a sensitive topic in the Australian politics. Throughout the development of the Australian society many laws and policies and been put and taken out of actions to create the country that Australians live in today.
Originally Australians were fearful that the country would be overtaken by the immigrants that we welcomed into the country to prevent this from happening the Australian government in 1973 put in place the white Australian policy, which refused to take any …show more content…
Like most texts and poems studied in class her story and content is based on the negative experiences. This text allows the readers to continue on with the negative attitude that comes along with the migrant experience. With most texts being about the negative experiences and having a negative tone the happiest refugee challenges with stereotype. Anh dos story is one full of negative stories that would crush any other person except giving in on life his uplifting tone inspires all.
During the timeline of Anh dos' life he encounters many people that have enhanced his life; he has also met thoughts who had hindered them. This can be seen as the changing attitudes of the migrant experience in Australia. Throughout the years Australians have warmed to the idea of having a multicultural society. In 1970's during the Vietnam War the Australian government and citizens welcomed the asylum seekers (refugees) fleeing from their war torn country to find a safe refuge. Anh do happened to be one of the lucky children to survive the voyage and make Australia his new …show more content…
____ band, shorts and a t-shirt with the “Sydney 2000 emblazoned across the front” but there is a change of tone in the second stanza, third line. This is when Andrea states “on my brown feet are thongs” yet again another Australian icon that has been shadowed by the word brown. This is stating the nature of her skin. This could be seen as reason to reflect her experience of racism. Andrea could believe that she has to part herself from the “Australian peoples” because she is not truly
Today Australia is known as a multicultural society even though for the past few centuries migration and immigrants have been a sensitive topic in the Australian politics. Throughout the development of the Australian society many laws and policies and been put and taken out of actions to create the country that Australians live in today.
Originally Australians were fearful that the country would be overtaken by the immigrants that we welcomed into the country to prevent this from happening the Australian government in 1973 put in place the white Australian policy, which refused to take any …show more content…
Like most texts and poems studied in class her story and content is based on the negative experiences. This text allows the readers to continue on with the negative attitude that comes along with the migrant experience. With most texts being about the negative experiences and having a negative tone the happiest refugee challenges with stereotype. Anh dos story is one full of negative stories that would crush any other person except giving in on life his uplifting tone inspires all.
During the timeline of Anh dos' life he encounters many people that have enhanced his life; he has also met thoughts who had hindered them. This can be seen as the changing attitudes of the migrant experience in Australia. Throughout the years Australians have warmed to the idea of having a multicultural society. In 1970's during the Vietnam War the Australian government and citizens welcomed the asylum seekers (refugees) fleeing from their war torn country to find a safe refuge. Anh do happened to be one of the lucky children to survive the voyage and make Australia his new …show more content…
____ band, shorts and a t-shirt with the “Sydney 2000 emblazoned across the front” but there is a change of tone in the second stanza, third line. This is when Andrea states “on my brown feet are thongs” yet again another Australian icon that has been shadowed by the word brown. This is stating the nature of her skin. This could be seen as reason to reflect her experience of racism. Andrea could believe that she has to part herself from the “Australian peoples” because she is not truly