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UN says discrimination embedded in Australia - GAF was right
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i_am_ben said:
Not so fast; you have at least one racist amongst you.
I was working in a restaurant in Perth once, and served a table of four from Melbourne. They had been quite chatty and friendly. Then one of the guys noticed a table of Asian customers further down the back.
"I see you have gooks in here. We call them gooks in Melbourne, what do you call them here?", he said with a bit of boldness.
"Human beings", i replied.
"...oh"
His partner then rebuked him and apologised. He acted pretty meek for the rest of the time they were there. He must've felt especially silly when my Japanese colleague and good friend walked in 15 minutes later and greeted myself and our colleagues with a hug.
The Storyteller
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i_am_ben said:
Orrrr maybe it was a Melbournite saying he was from Melboure, saying something racist so that the waiter would be appauled, write about it on gaf some months later and have someone reply accusing the racist person of being a Sydney sider pretending to be a Melbournite, all to make Sydney siders look bad.
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i_am_ben said:
WTF I thought Aboriginal was flat out wrong and Aborigine was the correct way to say it :O
I'm a kiwi though and we're not racist so it's just a mistake. (j/k)
jim-jam bongs
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to be fair, Australia is basically all crazies it's just that there are nuances to the crazy spectrumKritz said:
Alex Connolly
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Nice to see the Tassie defense force out and about. Antique shops, good beer, clean air and fine cuisine.
Historically though...race relations kinda soured fairly quickly in regards to the indigenous population, to the point of literal genocide. Rest in peace, Trugannini.
Historically though...race relations kinda soured fairly quickly in regards to the indigenous population, to the point of literal genocide. Rest in peace, Trugannini.
pseudocaesar
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Australia fucking rules. Also I would like to add that shouldnt people be blaming the British for all this? They were the ones that started it all lol
I agree with this post.Rez said:
Queenslanders are pretty damn racist.
I've never heard of journalists trashing our leaders disappearing. Hell, we have the Chaser team, which should tell you something. Google Chaser crashes APEC summit and tell me if that shit would fly in China. :loltino said:
Also, hopefully with the way things are going after the election, this Internet filter rubbish will disappear. Fingers crossed.
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Ripclawe said:
Wow, spot on.
I dunno, my town (Charlton) the most multiculturalism we got was the Italian couple running the fish and chip shop owners.Rez said:
Probably because of the above fact. Still, I can't tell you how many people called the tech support line I used to work for with an 07 area code tell me it was great to not have to talk to those 'farken' Indians. :lolSalazar said:
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speedpop said:
NZ is actually composed of 3 islands and it's more South East than South.
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Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaame dude. Lame.catfish said:
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