Do you think Australia is a racist country?
Jiorgia
2012/08/19 04:02:17
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Australia has copped alot of shit in recent years of being a racist society, especially after the jackson jive skit on Australia's hey hey its saturday, but do you think we really are racist or infact just true egalitarians?
Australia is known as being an egalitarian culture, one in which everyone is equal and must remain that way, one of the problems with the egalitarian culture is that it often results in criticism being directed at foreigners who intentionally or unintentionally communicate attributes of superiority. The criticisms are not designed to make the foreigner feel inferior, rather, they are designed to stop them feeling superior.
racism
noun
the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, esp. so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.
Australia is known as being an egalitarian culture, one in which everyone is equal and must remain that way, one of the problems with the egalitarian culture is that it often results in criticism being directed at foreigners who intentionally or unintentionally communicate attributes of superiority. The criticisms are not designed to make the foreigner feel inferior, rather, they are designed to stop them feeling superior.
racism
noun
the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, esp. so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.
So racism is defined as believing a race to be inferior or superior to others, Australians believing that everyone is the same would make them not racist in the least, but our use of offensive remarks in order to keep everyone on the same level is being construed at racism none the less.
I am not saying that no australians are racist, I am only speaking of society as a whole.
so what do you think?
Is australia racist or just egalitarian...
Top Opinion
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WWZ Captain 2012/08/19 19:56:53Other...
+3Living in America, you hear the term RACIST so much, it's lost all meaning and shock value. Using common sense, equates to RACISM now, common sense has taken flight. If you say you wouldn't walk thru a low income ghetto at midnight, you're being RACIST, never mind the fact that somebody is murdered there every night ! When real racism really does crop up, it's like the boy who cried wolf, nobody really cares.
But yes i do... oh lordy...LMAO!!!! Some of the best racist jokes have come from Australia.
Believe it or not, there are many Australians who feel badly about the aborigines, just like there are Americans who feel badly about how the native Americans were treated.
In every official ceremony the speaker thanks the original owners of the land for allowing them all to congregate on their land.
27 May, is the anniversary of the 1967 Referendum in which more than 90 percent of Australians voted to give the Commonwealth the power to make laws for Aboriginal people and for Aboriginal people to be counted in the census.
In 1967 90% of Australians voted to give Aboriginal people a vote as well as a personhood in the eyes of the law.
We treated aborigines horribly for a very long time, but we are strides ahead of America when it comes to treating our natives well now.
And every school assembly starts with the phrase "Let us remember and thank the traditional custodians of this land...". And there's National Sorry Day.
But yeah, people still discriminate against them horribly, despite some people's attempts to make up for what's happened. As if that'll ever happen.