something for nicholas

Problems faced by immigrants in the olden times

1. People were trying to hide from the law in their own countries, so they decided to immigrate to other countries to hide out and wait for the commotion to die down. They might also have decided that the place where they were taking shelter in was a better place to live in than the country they were residing in prior to their crime.

2. Last time, in some countries it was compulsory to be trained as a soldier and fight in a war if one comes(like Singapore. That’s so sad eh nick?) so, people may not have wanted to be trained as a soldier and fight and instead learn different professions like belly dancing(unlikely) and music. Thus they feld to other countries. This is not running from the law(I think)

3. A poor family may not earn enough money in the country they are living in, so the father or maybe even the whole family if they were confident of where they were going, may have used their savings and taken a boat to a different country that they felt would have given them some form of livelihood. For example, Singapore had much land to be used as farm or to be used a fishing settlements. If this was after Stamford raffles discovered Singapore, they may have used some of their fish/crops to sell to traders and earn money.

4. (this is active if immigrants can be counted even if it wasn’t by choice. There are two points). Ok, it is similar to point three. The person or family or whatever wanted to find a different country to live in. However the ship they were on was captured by pirates or maybe the crewman were already baddies. So they are taken prisoners in either case and taken to a country to maybe be sold of as slaves or to be servants of their captors.

5. People have committed a terrible crime, but the country or judge does not want to execute him. The person is then exiled and is taken to another country to live.

6. Ah- Ha! This one may be good. People from rural (slap yourself if you dun noe the meaning) countries did not have schools and thus did not have any proper education. So the children’s’ parents might have wanted them to go overseas to a good school to study and to get a good job next time. The children themselves may also have wanted to do overseas. Another similar reason is that a parent may have been teaching in a school but when the school closed down, the parent found another job in a faraway place(this does not mean Disneyland or another such shit this just means place was far away from where they were staying) so they moved. (olden times did still have school ya know)

7. In 1845, the Irish’s staple food crop died out and then a disease called typhus broke out and rampaged across the land. There was an exodus and the country’s population decreased significantly. In one year the potato crops started growing back but people still died till 1851. In the end, it was estimated that more than 1million people had died.

8. In 1848, the Germans rebelled against their government, but when they failed, they immigrated to United States to start out a new life because they were unhappy with their government.

9. In some countries, there was a high rate of crime and murder as well as many kidnappings. People would definitely wanted to travel to a different country maybe to save their lives and so that their children would not be harmed and would grow up without knowing the stuff that only very grown adults should witness.

10. I think this should be enough if not, can’t help with that.