Friday, October 9, 2009

are Australians racist?

From the outside looking in Australia has had a dubious past with race and racial issues, begining with the treatment of Indigenous persons when The First Fleet arrived through until the 1970's when the white Australia policy was abolished to wednesday nights episode of Hey Hey it's Saturday where people blacked out their faces and act like the Jackson Five.
Let's face it, all countries have some form of racial bias no matter how hard they try to hide, Australia has always been bad at hiding it.
There's just a difference in how it has been handled.
A lot of people ignore it, others will be outraged and some will try to use the episode as tool to teach people not to be so inconsiderate of others.

There is good and bad in all societies
Please don't lump all of us together for what a select few people are doing
til next time

1 comment:

  1. I agree that we shouldn't
    stick every culture in a group
    just because some of that group
    choose to be dick wads.
    I like your blog..
    Im gonna flow :)

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