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I talking about percentages of Muslims in America compared to Australia. Yes America has more muslims but seeing muslims is not an everyday occurance in many big towns and cities in America. You are much more likely to see Black and Hispanics than Muslims there. Muslims are only 0.08% in America. That is small percentace compared to some other western countries, especially for Western Euorpe where there are some cities there now there at least 25% or more of the people that are Muslim.
Yet even so Islamphobia is not a bigger problem in Europe than America. I even met a muslim guy living in Australia and he said the primary reason he would not like to live in America there is due to Islamphobia. Yet his word is just his opinion only and does not necessary make it fact.
Anyway you state that the Whites seem to be the only ones racist. There were attacks on Indian students here but not all the attackers where White, some of them were from Lebanese background.
Well just becuase your friend in Australia claims that Australians are racist is just an opinion. I have a friend in America and she thinks a vast majority of Americans are greedy and selfish. Yet it is just her opinion and I don't really agree with her there.
Yes there are racists here but the number of people involved in racist groups is very small. Anyway I have a hard time believing Australia is more racist than Australia. Examples are the recent Indian American woman winning the title "MIss America" has resulted in many racist insults via the internet to her since then.
One Twitter user wrote: “This is Miss America... Not Miss Foreign Country.”
I have seen that racism is a bigger problem in some Asian countries than my country.The reason being is anyone from any religious and ethnic background can got to school and university. Some Asian countries there is a strict quota that exists for people of a certain ethnic background. In addition there are laws here in Australia that make it illegal to hire someone because of their race (except for native Aboriginals as some job adds are only targeted to them). This practice is not really put into law in some Asian countries.
I agree very much with what you said I probably should've said its not whites just being racist, in fact here in America the blacks and Hispanics are actually probably more racist than whites in my opinion.
Yes,they have to live somewhere. Did they choose to live there,or where they forced to live there?
But why doesn't anyone bring them up on here,as if they don't exist.
Didn't Australia try to breed them out?
Oh,the reservations topic.
You ever been to a casino on the reservations?
They ARE winning.
Any Aborigine? How about the Chief Minister of the Northern Territory, the Deputy Leader of the NSW Labor Party, federal Senator Nova Peris, former Senator Aiden Ridgeway, Douglas Nichols - former Governor of South Australia? That's just a few indigenous Australians I thought of in 30 seconds.
Its strange that Aboriginals living semi traditional lifestyles in their traditional, remote homelands (where there are very, very few white or Asian Australians around), are ones who are seriously disadvantaged. Have you got a theory on that fact? And when famous, and celebrated indigenous singer Yunupingu died, he was given a state memorial service - eek how "racist?".......http://www.theage.com.au/national/hu...629-2p46k.html
As for out of sight, out of mind....the ARIAS are Australia's most significant music industry awards.. I guess this is "racism" in action too.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBCytQZvOMo
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Any Aborigine? How about the Chief Minister of the Northern Territory, the Deputy Leader of the NSW Labor Party, federal Senator Nova Peris, former Senator Aiden Ridgeway? That's just a few indigenous Australians I thought of in 30 seconds.
Its strange that Aboriginals living semi traditional lifestyles in their traditional, remote homelands (where there are very, very few white or Asian Australians around), are ones who are seriously disadvantaged. Have you got a theory on that fact? And when famous, and celebrated indigenous singer Yunupingu died, he was given a state memorial service - eek how "racist?".......Hundreds to honour Yunupingu
I don't think a few famous aboriginal people represent the average indigenous person, who is much worse off, has a much lower lifespan, and is much more likely to be incarcerated than other Australians. They do live, even in cities, for the most part in a separate world which other Australians don't really see. I don't think just pouring money in is going to fix the problem, it's a societal problem with deep-roots, very complex. Most people here either don't give them much of a though or have generally negative opinions of them. A few footballers or token politicians don't change that. There's a long way to go.
They do live, even in cities, for the most part in a separate world which other Australians don't really see. I don't think just pouring money in is going to fix the problem, it's a societal problem with deep-roots, very complex. Most people here either don't give them much of a though or have generally negative opinions of them. A few footballers or token politicians don't change that. There's a long way to go.
I agree that it is a extremely complex problem, and that large quantities of money spent over the decades doesn't seem to have made the difference many (most) hoped for. But to write the issue off as simply "poor helpless victim" and "evil racist everyone else" is a gross simplification that serves no purpose. Further, it does nothing to assist those aboriginals who are disadvantaged. Many of the worst issues facing many aboriginal communities are social in nature, with origins within the communities themselves.
It's also wrong to characterised all Aboriginals in that light. The last Aboriginal I had any real contact with worked in health care, was doing quite well, drove a brand new Audi and owned a pretty nice house. The negative stereotype that some hold is so strong, they probably wouldn't have realised she was indigenous.
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Anyways I don't see a point in the old thread, I said the exact same things I said in this thread and the last one.