Chinese coolies were from china , with different dialects and came from different parts of china --- Hokkiens , Teochews , Hakkas , Cantonese , Hainanese ,Foochows , Henghua , Shanghainese , Hockchia , they came from their hometown , due to droughts , disasters , for money earning opportunities in Sinapore , or to start a new life .
They have different kinds of jobs , unskilled & skilled . The skilled workers' jobs are Chinese middleman , Coolie agents .
The unskilled people , had all kinds of different jobs --earpicking , merchants , food vendors , richshaw pullers , samsui womans , slaves etc.
Now we are going to present to you what they do at their different jobs to help Singapore grow as a prosperous city .
Thanks I am doing a project on coolies too. Thanks for the help anyway :D
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