rac·ism [rey-siz-uhm]
–noun
a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one’s own race is superior and has the right to rule others.
Many, many people have an odd view of racism (the strangest being “whites against everyone else”), but there’s the definition right there, but I have been called a racist because of what has come of my country. Racial tension is at an all time high in Australia and it’s constantly on the news and while I would never pick out an individual person and beat the crap out of them because of what my country is becoming, I can’t say with 100% honesty that don’t I understand why there are people who do, because I’m getting mad.
I love different food and learning how to cook it, learning about different cultures and hearing a person’s life story, but that doesn’t mean that I want things to change in my country and it doesn’t mean that a person can come into my country and tell me how it’s now going to be run.
For example: There is a Muslim couple who live in Australia, and they’ve decided that we need a Taj Mahal type structure here. Firstly, I look forward to seeing such a magnificient structure here in Australia. Short of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Opera House, there’s really not a lot of architectural prettiness here and chances are that come its completion, I’ll be one of the dorks rushing out there to take photos, but I know of people working on the structure that are forbidden to eat meat pies for lunch while they’re doing the job. It doesn’t matter that the structure is made on Australian soil – home of the meat pie, meat pies are forbidden.
In Australia, you’re were never forbidden from eating anything. If you want a tomato sauce and banana sandwich with pine nuts tossed in for fun, then you can eat it. If your previous country is so oppressed that you find something like a meat pie to be grotesque, then you’ve got no business being here and forcing your beliefs on a person on their home soil. It’s not like they’re forcing YOU to eat it, so what’s the fucking problem? Would you like it if someone came into your country and starting telling you that the way you did things was abhorrent to them? Would you wonder what they were doing in your country? Of course you would – so why are you doing it? Isn’t enforcing your dietary beliefs on another person a form of racism in itself? Why is your way of eating more superior to others, and why is it that you think it’s okay to FORBID someone else to eat it? You’re messing with OUR lifestyle and you’re ruling others.
Another example: I used to work for the Registrar General’s Office – the government department responsible for the recording of all births, deaths and marriages in the country. Our laws stated that when a child was born, that child took the surname of the father, the mother if no father was stated or a hyphenation of both names. It’s really kind of simple and makes all kinds of sense, but imagine my surprise when a muslim couple came in and abused me because their child’s surname was wrong because the child’s surname was the same as the father’s. Apparently, in their country, the child would be considered the father’s brother and not the father’s son because their surnames were the same. Apparently the “bin” means “son of” and the child’s surname should have been the same as the father’s given name. Firstly, you’re not in your country, you’re in my country and we have laws just like your country does. Has anyone gone to a Muslim country and demanded that their child’s surname be changed about because of the customs in Australia? And if they did, would they get what they asked for? I think the answer to that question would be a big “no”. But guess what? Australia rolled over and gave them what they want. Isn’t this a way of saying that your culture and laws are more superior and if this is the case, what are you doing here again?
Other examples:
No Christmas decorations up or nativity scenes in what was basically a Christian country in the event that it offends someone. Being frowned upon for saying “Merry Christmas” instead of “Happy Holidays”. It’s not happy holidays, it’s Christmas, and while people warily say “happy holidays” and roll over like pussies, one can’t help but wonder what would happen if this was tried in someone else’s country and what the outcome would be.
Welfare benefits paid immediately to people coming into our country if they have children. I was of the understanding that before you could immigrate to this country, that you needed to have a place of employment before you could move here, but after working for the welfare system here, I couldn’t begin to tell you how many people went there fresh off a boat or aeroplane and walked straight into a Centrelink office and demanded payments for their kids. Samoan families who, on average, had four kids or more were further given another bonus because they were a large family. That’s Australian taxpayers paying for kids from another country on an already over-stretched welfare system and I can say with absolute truth that Australian families don’t get that perk unless they breed like crazy, and if we were doing that, none of us would have time to work and pay our taxes and then who would be supporting these other people?
Speaking your language in an English country. I’m sorry, but it IS an English speaking country. I would never go to China, France, Japan or even Pakistan without learning some of your language. I don’t think I should have to be multi-lingual because you didn’t bother to learn anything basic – like, “please give me money for my 10 children. Here are their passports”.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m all for giving people a fair go, but I don’t support having to change my lifestyle and have my freedoms taken away in order to save the feelings of people that chose to come here. I don’t walk into someone’s house and tell them how they should be running it so I don’t know why we are allowing others to come into our home and do just that. I am appalled that our government has shown such utter lack of backbone when it comes to this issue. If we’re supposed to be a cosmopolitan country, why are we forgoing the things that make us Australian? If someone else’s country was so fantastic that they want to change Australia into the same type of country, why did they leave this beloved country in the first place?
Why?
I love your kebabs and your Turkish bread and I love learning the history behind Hannukah – I will even participate in any ceremonies that come with your culture if I happen to be in your home. It’s not that I’m just tolerant, it’s because I am truly interested and I like learning new things. This doesn’t mean that I suddenly want to resemble a muslim person and I’m not going to forego Christmas because that’s not what I’m about. If I can be tolerant of what is, essentially, strangers coming into my home; they can, in turn, be tolerant of my lifestyle. I didn’t ask anyone to come here, even though you are welcome, so why am I changing stuff about to accommodate you?
113 boats have, so far, made it to Western Australian shores. That’s thousands and thousands of illegal immigrants running from an “oppressed” country that want to come here and live on our dime, pleading poverty and hardship, yet had the money in the first place to make the trip.
Should I be mad? Or am I being a racist for supporting sending them home?
If loving the way my country used to be and becoming distressed at the direction things are going is considered being a racist, then maybe I am one after all.
I’ll be sure to tell all my friends – which brings up another point…
Yes, I have friends of different races, yet there are some who say that pulling out that card can still make a white person a racist.
Here’s a news flash, I’m never going to be anything but white and it’s time people from other races got over this fact. You’re not special because your ancestors were oppressed or used. You’re not special because of the colour of your skin any more than I’m special. In fact, when it’s pointed out that I’m white and have no understanding of how it is to be oppressed, you come off looking uneducated and stupid.
I’ll tell my friends that, too.
–noun
1.
a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one’s own race is superior and has the right to rule others.
Many, many people have an odd view of racism (the strangest being “whites against everyone else”), but there’s the definition right there, but I have been called a racist because of what has come of my country. Racial tension is at an all time high in Australia and it’s constantly on the news and while I would never pick out an individual person and beat the crap out of them because of what my country is becoming, I can’t say with 100% honesty that I understand that there are people who do, because I’m getting mad.
I love different food and learning how to cook it, learning about different cultures and hearing a person’s life story, but that doesn’t mean that I want things to change in my country and it doesn’t mean that a person can come into my country and tell me how it’s now going to be run.
For example: There are a couple who live in Australia, and they’ve decided that we need a Taj Mahal type structure here. Firstly, I look forward to seeing such a magnificient structure here in Australia. Short of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Opera House, there’s really not a lot of architectural prettiness here and chances are that come its completion, I’ll be one of the dorks rushing out there to take photos, but I know of people working on the structure that are forbidden to eat meat pies for lunch while they’re doing the job. It doesn’t matter that the structure is made on Australian soil – home of the meat pie, meat pies are forbidden.
In Australia, you’re were never forbidden from eating anything. If you want a tomato sauce and banana sandwich with pine nuts tossed in for fun, then you can eat it. If your previous country is so oppressed that you find something like a meat pie to be grotesque, then you’ve got no business being here and forcing your beliefs on a person on their home soil. It’s not like they’re forcing YOU to eat it, so what’s the fucking problem? Would you like it if someone came into your country and starting telling you that the way you did things was abhorrent to them? Would you wonder what they were doing in your country? Of course you would – so why are you doing it? Isn’t enforcing your dietary beliefs on another person a form of racism in itself? Why is your way of eating more superior to others, and why is it that you think it’s okay to FORBID someone else to eat it? You’re messing with OUR lifestyle and you’re ruling others.
Another example: I used to work for the Registrar General’s Office – the government department responsible for the recording of all births, deaths and marriages in the country. Our laws stated that when a child was born, that child took the surname of the father, the mother if no father was stated or a hyphenation of both names. It’s really kind of simple and makes all kinds of sense, but imagine my surprise when a muslim couple came in and abused me because their child’s surname was wrong because the child’s surname was the same as the father’s. Apparently, in their country, the child would be considered the father’s brother and not the father’s son because their surnames were the same. Apparently the “bin” means “son of” and the child’s surname should have been the same as the father’s given name. Firstly, you’re not in your country, you’re in my country and we have laws just like your country does. Has anyone gone to a Muslim country and demanded that their child’s surname be changed about because of the customs in Australia? And if they did, would they get what they asked for? I think the answer to that question would be a big “no”. But guess what? Australia rolled over and gave them what they want. Isn’t this a way of saying that your culture and laws are more superior and if this is the case, what are you doing here again?
Other examples:
No Christmas decorations up or nativity scenes in what was basically a Christian country in the event that it offends someone. Being frowned upon for saying “Merry Christmas” instead of “Happy Holidays”. It’s not happy holidays, it’s Christmas, and while people warily say “happy holidays” and roll over like pussies, one can’t help but wonder what would happen if this was tried in someone else’s country and what the outcome would be.
Welfare benefits paid immediately to people coming into our country if they have children. I was of the understanding that before you could immigrate to this country, that you needed to have a place of employment before you could move here, but after working for the welfare system here, I couldn’t begin to tell you how many people went there fresh off a boat or aeroplane and walked straight into a Centrelink office and demanded payments for their kids. Samoan families who, on average, had four kids or more were further given another bonus because they were a large family. That’s Australian taxpayers paying for kids from another country on an already over-stretched welfare system and I can say with absolute truth that Australian families don’t get that perk unless they breed like crazy, and if we were doing that, none of us would have time to work and pay our taxes and then who would be supporting these other people?
Speaking your language in an English country. I’m sorry, but it IS an English speaking country. I would never go to China, France, Japan or even Pakistan without learning some of your language. I don’t think I should have to be multi-lingual because you didn’t bother to learn anything basic – like, “please give me money for my 10 children. Here are their passports”.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m all for giving people a fair go, but I don’t support having to change my lifestyle and have my freedoms taken away in order to save the feelings of people that chose to come here. I don’t walk into someone’s house and tell them how they should be running it so I don’t know why we are allowing others to come into our home and do just that. I am appalled that our government has shown such utter lack of backbone when it comes to this issue. If we’re supposed to be a cosmopolitan country, why are we forgoing the things that make us Australian? If someone else’s country was so fantastic that they want to change Australia into the same type of country, why did they leave this beloved country in the first place?
Why?
I love your kebabs and your Turkish bread and I love learning the history behind Hannukah – I will even participate in any ceremonies that come with your culture if I happen to be in your home. It’s not that I’m just tolerant, it’s because I am truly interested and I like learning new things. This doesn’t mean that I suddenly want to resemble a muslim person and I’m not going to forego Christmas because that’s not what I’m about. If I can be tolerant of what is, essentially, strangers coming into my home; they can, in turn, be tolerant of my lifestyle. I didn’t ask anyone to come here, even though you are welcome, so why am I changing stuff about to accommodate you?
113 boats have, so far, made it to Western Australian shores. That’s thousands and thousands of illegal immigrants running from an “oppressed” country that want to come here and live on our dime, pleading poverty and hardship, yet had the money in the first place to make the trip.
Should I be mad? Or am I being a racist for supporting sending them home?
If loving the way my country used to be and becoming distressed at the direction things are going is considered being a racist, then maybe I am one after all.
I’ll be sure to tell all my friendsrac·ism [rey-siz-uhm]
–noun
1.
a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one’s own race is superior and has the right to rule others.
Many, many people have an odd view of racism (the strangest being “whites against everyone else”), but there’s the definition right there, but I have been called a racist because of what has come of my country. Racial tension is at an all time high in Australia and it’s constantly on the news and while I would never pick out an individual person and beat the crap out of them because of what my country is becoming, I can’t say with 100% honesty that I understand that there are people who do, because I’m getting mad.
I love different food and learning how to cook it, learning about different cultures and hearing a person’s life story, but that doesn’t mean that I want things to change in my country and it doesn’t mean that a person can come into my country and tell me how it’s now going to be run.
For example: There are a couple who live in Australia, and they’ve decided that we need a Taj Mahal type structure here. Firstly, I look forward to seeing such a magnificient structure here in Australia. Short of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Opera House, there’s really not a lot of architectural prettiness here and chances are that come its completion, I’ll be one of the dorks rushing out there to take photos, but I know of people working on the structure that are forbidden to eat meat pies for lunch while they’re doing the job. It doesn’t matter that the structure is made on Australian soil – home of the meat pie, meat pies are forbidden.
In Australia, you’re were never forbidden from eating anything. If you want a tomato sauce and banana sandwich with pine nuts tossed in for fun, then you can eat it. If your previous country is so oppressed that you find something like a meat pie to be grotesque, then you’ve got no business being here and forcing your beliefs on a person on their home soil. It’s not like they’re forcing YOU to eat it, so what’s the fucking problem? Would you like it if someone came into your country and starting telling you that the way you did things was abhorrent to them? Would you wonder what they were doing in your country? Of course you would – so why are you doing it? Isn’t enforcing your dietary beliefs on another person a form of racism in itself? Why is your way of eating more superior to others, and why is it that you think it’s okay to FORBID someone else to eat it? You’re messing with OUR lifestyle and you’re ruling others.
Another example: I used to work for the Registrar General’s Office – the government department responsible for the recording of all births, deaths and marriages in the country. Our laws stated that when a child was born, that child took the surname of the father, the mother if no father was stated or a hyphenation of both names. It’s really kind of simple and makes all kinds of sense, but imagine my surprise when a muslim couple came in and abused me because their child’s surname was wrong because the child’s surname was the same as the father’s. Apparently, in their country, the child would be considered the father’s brother and not the father’s son because their surnames were the same. Apparently the “bin” means “son of” and the child’s surname should have been the same as the father’s given name. Firstly, you’re not in your country, you’re in my country and we have laws just like your country does. Has anyone gone to a Muslim country and demanded that their child’s surname be changed about because of the customs in Australia? And if they did, would they get what they asked for? I think the answer to that question would be a big “no”. But guess what? Australia rolled over and gave them what they want. Isn’t this a way of saying that your culture and laws are more superior and if this is the case, what are you doing here again?
Other examples:
No Christmas decorations up or nativity scenes in what was basically a Christian country in the event that it offends someone. Being frowned upon for saying “Merry Christmas” instead of “Happy Holidays”. It’s not happy holidays, it’s Christmas, and while people warily say “happy holidays” and roll over like pussies, one can’t help but wonder what would happen if this was tried in someone else’s country and what the outcome would be.
Welfare benefits paid immediately to people coming into our country if they have children. I was of the understanding that before you could immigrate to this country, that you needed to have a place of employment before you could move here, but after working for the welfare system here, I couldn’t begin to tell you how many people went there fresh off a boat or aeroplane and walked straight into a Centrelink office and demanded payments for their kids. Samoan families who, on average, had four kids or more were further given another bonus because they were a large family. That’s Australian taxpayers paying for kids from another country on an already over-stretched welfare system and I can say with absolute truth that Australian families don’t get that perk unless they breed like crazy, and if we were doing that, none of us would have time to work and pay our taxes and then who would be supporting these other people?
Speaking your language in an English country. I’m sorry, but it IS an English speaking country. I would never go to China, France, Japan or even Pakistan without learning some of your language. I don’t think I should have to be multi-lingual because you didn’t bother to learn anything basic – like, “please give me money for my 10 children. Here are their passports”.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m all for giving people a fair go, but I don’t support having to change my lifestyle and have my freedoms taken away in order to save the feelings of people that chose to come here. I don’t walk into someone’s house and tell them how they should be running it so I don’t know why we are allowing others to come into our home and do just that. I am appalled that our government has shown such utter lack of backbone when it comes to this issue. If we’re supposed to be a cosmopolitan country, why are we forgoing the things that make us Australian? If someone else’s country was so fantastic that they want to change Australia into the same type of country, why did they leave this beloved country in the first place?
Why?
I love your kebabs and your Turkish bread and I love learning the history behind Hannukah – I will even participate in any ceremonies that come with your culture if I happen to be in your home. It’s not that I’m just tolerant, it’s because I am truly interested and I like learning new things. This doesn’t mean that I suddenly want to resemble a muslim person and I’m not going to forego Christmas because that’s not what I’m about. If I can be tolerant of what is, essentially, strangers coming into my home; they can, in turn, be tolerant of my lifestyle. I didn’t ask anyone to come here, even though you are welcome, so why am I changing stuff about to accommodate you?
113 boats have, so far, made it to Western Australian shores. That’s thousands and thousands of illegal immigrants running from an “oppressed” country that want to come here and live on our dime, pleading poverty and hardship, yet had the money in the first place to make the trip.
Should I be mad? Or am I being a racist for supporting sending them home?
If loving the way my country used to be and becoming distressed at the direction things are going is considered being a racist, then maybe I am one after all.
I’ll be sure to tell all my friends.
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