The Mongolian octopus is an Australian cartoon made in 1886, its showing the emotions of the white Australia's thoughts on the Chinese coming over to their country. It shows that the Mongolian octopus is referring to the Chinese as being the cause of our cheap labour, customs robbery, opium, typhoid and immorality. It is the cause for our white Australian policy because of the racism involved in this nasty situation. The white Australians were very racist, some thought that the Chinese will take all their jobs and invade and cause lots of trouble on their land.
Our societies attitudes of today are a very dramatic in change, we now welcome every different race and are not racist towards other skin colours or languages. Although i do believe there are still some racist people in our society.
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