New chums
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- Student from Wellington High School
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How were the new immigrants treated by the old immigrants?
- Jock
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Depends where they came from. There’s always been a bit of joking, teasing attitude towards new immigrants from England. In the 19th century they used to call them ‘new chums’, and they used to enjoy making practical jokes against them. And they always said that a ‘new chum’, you know, needed the lemon juice squeezed out of them. They hadn’t yet become good, tough colonial people, and there was always a little bit of teasing of the ‘new chum’. And in the 1920s the English people were called ‘homies,’ which is an interesting sort of term in the present context. And of course in the 1950s and 60s, they were often called ‘poms’. So there was always a little bit of… teasing particularly of the English people. Some of the non-white peoples got treated, you know, pretty badly. I mean obviously the worst in terms of the treatment were the Chinese.