yARN: Is Australia the lucky, racist country?

Back that one up and you might have a shred of credibility.

So who's the racist now?

Such generalisations are an insult. And they only display a lack of desire to see what is before you. A few media beatups a few bad eggs and suddenly we are all like that. every country has its own share of people that are unsavoury have a poor attitude to others around them whether its based on race colour sex or creed. Every Country! In some countries you can be jailed, murdered or raped with the offender having no fear of retribution. in fact be honoured as the result of their crime.

How many asian countries for example would allow an Australian to be mayor?

Pull your head out of the sand and take your offensive remarks elswhere. preferably one of those other countries your are so fond of.

Oh and do some research into Sol's history prior to Telstra

DC

We Must Introspect

Why is that every time somebody holds a mirror in front of us, we start to get defensive and criticise him instead of a dispassionate debate and analysis? Australia is the only country in the anglo-saxon world where racism is practiced unashamedly. The question is not whether we are racist? Just look at the way we treat aboriginal people. The attacks on Vietnamese people in 70's and 80's. Violence against the Chinese in the past decade. Killings of African refugees last year. Or the latest attacks on Indian students.
In such racist attacks, right from the Police to the political administrators ask the victim to change behaviour instead of punishing the culprits and change their behaviour? Its time we looked at ourselves from the perspective of non-white citizens of Australia and those tourists and students who come here temporarily and find this country inhospitable. The world is changing. China and India are going to be the future dominant powers. Unless we change our racist attitudes now, we will not prosper in years to come in this fast changing world.

australia is unashamedly racist

Australia is definitely racist. and it is the unashamedly that is more important than the level. Again as others have said, having lived in many different countries, UK, germany, USA to name a few Australia is living in the 70's (CF UK) with regards to racism. I think the main problem is people do not think laterally enough about what gets said or goes on, but would rather stick their heads in the sand. It is not, in my opinion, racist to want a white australia, but normal to want to live around and with others of similar cultural values as yourself. What is racist, although argued away as a joke, is the public, media, governmental allowance of the use of names to identify set groups of people. Wogs, poms etc. are wholly racist comments which in Australia are argued vehemently as joking comments. "i have a friend who is a wog and i call it to his face" so hence it must be ok!! what is missed is the minority of people who exist in every country who are willing to act violently against a group due to their origins. when this type of person sees the acceptance of racial slurs, as i call them (and they do cause offence), they use this to convince themselves of general agreement from the populace and use it as a rational to their violence. Again every country has racists in them, but as a modern western society it is unacceptable that Australia does not show to itself and the world that it deplores anything racist. Come out of the 70's and accept it

who is racist

Most Australians are not at all racist, we take people as we find them and judge them accordingly. What we don't like are people of limited ability who blow in and arrogantly display utter contempt for our elected government and anything else Australian while living high on the hog at our expense.

To say this puts us in the 50s and then roll out the old gender and race stereotypes is so silly that it needs no reply. You are the one who is being racist and sexist, and you obviously need to get out more.

My Observations

As a 35 year citizen of Australia (WA/SA/ACT/NSW) and a 3 year current resident of Germany, through daily observations it is evident to me that sadly Australia is more racist than modern day Germany. Not to a major degree, but the difference can be seen.

the white australia and australians

I have no doubt or hesitation in saying that Australians (ozzie..Ozzie..Ozzie..) are racist. The thing “racism” is in their blood because their ancestors (The White Australians) had this type of mind and thinking which has become their culture, because they have no other own culture or cultural background except this. This is a bitter truth so every one should accept this.

I am a WASP; I am a white POM from the motherland. None of these terms are my terms for me; I call myself an Australian from the UK.
I have lived in Hong Kong pre 1997 where I have been spit at for being white in an Asian country despite it been "leased" by the UK from China. I understand what racism is to a small degree.
Australia is a country that is significantly racist; it is not necessarily violent, unless you consider the riots at Cronulla when to sections of Australian society stupidly "went to war" according to some newspapers.
You can gauge how racist people are by asking a few simple questions, do you hear from your family the phrase, curry munchers, wogs, poms, kiwis, saffas, chinks, etc, and then the question you need to ask is, why did I say nothing about that word being used? If the answers are that you did not want to make a fuss, or it is not that harmful as it is common language, or even worse you could not be bothered as you use those terms yourself then you are inherently racist, to prove this point, you would never call a person of colour from Africa a “ni**er” as that is incredibly offensive, however the word is no more than a degree from the commonly used words above.
I consider myself to be a person that has stereotypical views on people from other origins and races, for instance I hate the French (being English this is completely understandable of course), however I have never met a French person that I did not like, this is pure racism. I support everyone that plays against the Australian cricket team (because you beat us for about a century at our own game), unless you are the French of course, then I am neutral, does this make me unAustralian, as I love this country, just not the sporting part (envy is a good reason for this degree of racism)
The reason that I felt that I needed to write this reply, was the Australian's are not consciously racist, it is something that is bred into them by their parents, grandparents, friends, politicians, certainly not consciously, but it is always there. It is a question of how we stop accepting it, rather than is it there?