The Negative Impact Of Blackbirding In Australia

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The purpose of this report is to show the impacts of Blackbirding on societies in the Pacific. This case report will show that Blackbirding had a negative impact on cultural interaction. Blackbirding caused two cultures to learn about each other in a negative way. It forced the pacific people to be taken away from their families through trickery and kidnapping. These people were then forced to be slaves. Any situation where the human rights of one group of people are disregarded by another group of people leads to negative cultural interaction.
In some parts of the world this still happens and people are forced into labour with very little or no pay.

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These people were brought to be used in slavery. This was done by telling the people that it would be a better life. They were told that they would be paid and return to their families soon. This was all lies and misleading the people. If they did not agree, one of the consequences would be, they would fill them with alcohol and would not be able to control their feelings. Some were beaten. I think that the Australians did this for several reasons. I think one of them were to take control over another culture to show power. I believe another reason is that the Australians didn’t want to do some of this work therefore they got the pacific people to do it for them. The biggest shame was they even used children for labour. Australians would charge more for the labour so it would cost little or nothing to have slaves. Black birding was then practiced in many other countries and recruiting was done by cruel pirates. They were forced to work on cotton farms, domestic houses and sugar cane farms. The Australians used force to control the Pacific Island people. The Queensland government’s only attempted to control the treatment of workers in 1901 with the Polynesian Labourers Act. Blackbirding only ended in 1904. Blackbirding had a cultural impact on Australia as many of these cultures still exist in …show more content…

They would work in the mines. Some survivors were sent back to the Cook Islands many years later.

Many people left the islands in fear of blackbirding or to find a better life. This had an impact on the culture today in many ways.

• Some of their ways and traditions were lost because people were scattered.
• They suffered a loss In language and arts and cultures
• Today the official languages are English and Maori

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