I admit to reading that entire piece. As a new immigrant in Australia, it's hard to find someone who is actually willing to talk about racism. "Aussies" will tell you that they are an open tolerant society and that they like the multicultural country Oz has become.
Immigrants are equally unwilling to let on that they are not getting houses, jobs, even good service because of the colour of their skin, accents...
I was recently reading The Age and found columns by a Sushi Das to be especially refreshing because she seemed to be saying what a lot of us thought.
I only felt it was right that Australia needs to depend on a British Indian to tell us what its immigrants are going thru/feeling. go figure
I think it's almost the same scenario here in the states. I mean everybody tells you the states is a tolerant society and they are, on a comparitive basis. But really none of the real real racisim issues are never ever discussed.
I think that's because racism is not really fashionable anymore...People who say they're being discriminated against get these weird looks - "Oh, that's so last century, when colonialism was still around!" But it's a BIG big issue everywhere...Especially in places where people deny its existence.
How very true!! When Katrina hit, my students were discussing the whole issue of how sometimes when you are stripped away of everything, how do we judge people who resort to stealing to get basic necessities. And one of the kids said, "Yeah like Nikes, yeah? I am sure "they" really needed that." And it hit me that ignorance or illiteracy is not the only reason for having a those people vs. our people attitude.
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M.L.
hee hee Best Friends Forever.
I admit to reading that entire piece. As a new immigrant in Australia, it's hard to find someone who is actually willing to talk about racism. "Aussies" will tell you that they are an open tolerant society and that they like the multicultural country Oz has become.
Immigrants are equally unwilling to let on that they are not getting houses, jobs, even good service because of the colour of their skin, accents...
I was recently reading The Age and found columns by a Sushi Das to be especially refreshing because she seemed to be saying what a lot of us thought.
I only felt it was right that Australia needs to depend on a British Indian to tell us what its immigrants are going thru/feeling.
go figure
I think it's almost the same scenario here in the states. I mean everybody tells you the states is a tolerant society and they are, on a comparitive basis. But really none of the real real racisim issues are never ever discussed.
I think that's because racism is not really fashionable anymore...People who say they're being discriminated against get these weird looks - "Oh, that's so last century, when colonialism was still around!"
But it's a BIG big issue everywhere...Especially in places where people deny its existence.
M.L.
How very true!! When Katrina hit, my students were discussing the whole issue of how sometimes when you are stripped away of everything, how do we judge people who resort to stealing to get basic necessities.
And one of the kids said, "Yeah like Nikes, yeah? I am sure "they" really needed that."
And it hit me that ignorance or illiteracy is not the only reason for having a those people vs. our people attitude.
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