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We in Australia have a blind spot concerning the Chinese in our history. The Chinese first came to Australia in the 1850s for the Victorian Gold Rush. Rumours were started culminating in the Lambing Flats Riots in NSW and similar incidents in Victoria, https://victoriancollections.net.au...he-chinese-on-the-goldfields/conflict-harmony.
The terribly underexposed issue with China dates back to how we treated them as a nation in the 19th and early 20th Centuries. You want to talk about stuff that isn't discussed in US History (and especially impacts current events), let's talk the Opium Wars!
incidentally I had holidays in near Robe, South Australia in January and noticed a plaque on the pier at Kingston SE stated that many Chinese landed there and walked to the Victorian Goldfields - 450kms!