i_am_ben said:everything north of Melbourne should be burnt to the ground.
Carton 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.
"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"
i_am_ben said:Must have been Sydney sider trying to ruin our reputation.
The Storyteller 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.
speedpop said:Everyone knows the only good part of Australia is the little island to the south.
evlcookie said:We are meant to be elitists because of the ausgaf thread?
Sweet
i_am_ben said:really? I've never heard of it being offensive before. I thought it was just interchangeable with Aboriginal.
to be fair, Australia is basically all crazies it's just that there are nuances to the crazy spectrumKritz said:Tasmania might be small, insignificant, and lacking perspective on a lot of things. But at least we aren't full of fucking crazies.
Well, it is a country founded by criminals.tino said:They basically have worse freedom of speech policy than China, so yeah they can fuck right off.
tino said:They basically have worse freedom of speech policy than China, so yeah they can fuck right off.
:lol Oh you're just fucking special!tino said:They basically have worse freedom of speech policy than China, so yeah they can fuck right off.
tino said:They basically have worse freedom of speech policy than China, so yeah they can fuck right off.
hamchan said:What a weird thing to say about the UN.
I agree with this post.Rez said:A lot of people living outside of the major cities or Victoria/NSW/SA aren't exactly scholarly. I mean, look at Itainteasybeingcheesy. It's like calling the US homophobic based on a survey of Utah and Georgia. We're doing our best, I promise.
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:They basically have worse freedom of speech policy than China, so yeah they can fuck right off.
Zanken said::lolQueenslanders are pretty damn racist.
Ripclawe said:The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu: Multiculturalism has seemed to imply, wrongly for me, let other cultures be allowed to express themselves but do not let the majority culture at all tell us its glories, its struggles, its joys, its pains, he said.
If by "harmonious" just gloss over differences and have to change just so others can feel welcome, no thanks. Multicult is a warped idea that you can live and let live and just keep quiet about certain aspects that go against the majority norms and culture.
Now Assimilation is a much better fit for society because newcomers have to fit it and you get a different kind of another culture. Multiculturalism as it is practiced today just promotes a wretched form of tribalism.
I dunno, my town (Charlton) the most multiculturalism we got was the Italian couple running the fish and chip shop owners.Rez said:That's not true! Rural Victoria is very multicultural and lovely and rosey.
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:You're pretty tediously backward yourself.
speedpop said:Everyone knows the only good part of Australia is the little island to the south.
Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaame dude. Lame.catfish said:NZ is actually composed of 3 islands and it's more South East than South.
Korey said:Man the concept of Australia is really interesting to me. They're like England with a twist.
Korey said:Man the concept of Australia is really interesting to me. They're like England with a twist.
Holy shit it's legal to just run up and tackle somebody if they're a different race than you?Suggestions included negotiating a treaty with Indigenous Australians, giving them better access to legal aid and tackling laws in the Northern Territory that discriminate on the basis of race.