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I find Aussies and Brits to be quite different in terms of what they're willing to be talkative or open about. But the whole issues of ethnicity, race and diversity is something the average Aussie is quite sensitive to. Why? If you're not an immigrant yourself, have a parent who is, or have grandparents who were/are, you're actually in a comparatively small demographic.
While this is no doubt true demographically, I am not sure that there is always an automatic, direct correlation with political and societal views.
Children and grandchildren of immigrants in the new world don't automatically reject contemporary anti-immigration rhetoric as they don't see themselves as immigrants. And they most definitely don't see that type of rhetoric as a threat to them personally. They're "landed".
If you're a second or third generation Australian with people born in the UK, Italy, Greece or even Lebanon not too far back in the family tree, you won't necessarily feel kinship with refugees from God-knows-where on boats in the Indian Ocean or FOB battler immigrants from Bangladesh living in scuzzy apartments in Sydney's "West".
I don't know, there are millions of 'non-whites' of all denominations in the UK, I get the feeling that the diversity of the UK (specifically but not exclusively England) is somewhat under estimated 'over there', not just diversity of skin colour either! The South West or far North are probably the least diverse places in the country. I don't live in a city but I do live in the SE of the UK (between London and Brighton), if I could show you my daughters school photograph you would get an idea as to just how diverse her class is - I genuinely think it would surprise you somewhat, that's one reason why I think that none of us can really appreciate 'race relations' in each others countries, I did work with a French woman of Ghanaian heritage that told me racism was a lot worse in France but even then it could have perhaps just been her own unfortunate experience..............she now lives and works in Germany.
It's the same way in the U.S. People from all over the world live here.
The overarching categories that most people are classified in are white, black, hispanic and asian. But it's a complicated picture when you get down to the details.
It's the same way in the U.S. People from all over the world live here.
The overarching categories that most people are classified in are white, black, hispanic and asian. But it's a complicated picture when you get down to the details.
And of course, people like Casey Kasem and Ralph Nader are considered "white" under this system.
One thing I've noticed is that America seems to be the only developed country where black and white people sound different. In the UK I'd struggle to telling what colour skin somebody has just by hearing their voice down the telephone.
One thing I've noticed is that America seems to be the only developed country where black and white people sound different. In the UK I'd struggle to telling what colour skin somebody has just by hearing their voice down the telephone.
Yep, to the point to where when you come across someone like me who does not speak AAVE, we get told that we "sound white". Most idiotic thing about the race identification in this country.
The rest of it is unimportant rambling. You stated all that needed to be said in that first sentence.
Nah, you were simply tunnel-visioned towards what you wanted to hear and/or were willing to accept. The echo-chambers on Reddit are probably more your scene
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