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| The city's history of attrition with foreign colonisers, migrant workers and refugees, began in 1842 when Shanghai was chosen as one of the first five Treaty Ports in which foreigners would be allowed to trade, but not reside. It is no surprise that white Australians -- who are ambivalently located in the colonial discourse by being both colonised and colonisers -- affirm resistance, difference and space through the mix. The image of the "primitive" ways of the Ainu in the wilds of Hokkaido was an important commodity to the Wajin colonisers who were already benefiting from natural resources that exist in the northern island. |
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