Are the Australians Racist ?

Your post is well written and many points are taken... though In All nations there are racists, even in the Eastern Nations you speak proudly of, though more so in religion than in color. It is just unfortunate that ALL People can not see past their predjudices.

thanks for the comment , it is hard to believe and heard about Racism

Lot of Australians are racist but the majority are not. The racist ones
are mainly the second generation offspring of foreign migrants in the country. You will also find that most Australian Aborigines are very racist at that blaming everybody for their problems exept themselves. 31/5/2009.

thanks for the comment

I will not attribute racism to an entire nation of people and I don't think that is what you are doing in your story but you raise some interesting points that are hard for some to swallow. When you are raised to believe the lack of pigment in your skin color entitles you to superiority by birthright, you are a racist. There are many Whites who believe this but I am thankful that in America that mindset is becoming more unpopular with each generation as cultures mix and people are able to be raised among diverse groups of people. It is a "common survivalist" mindset that allowed the US to elect a president of African American descent after experiencing a severe economimc downturn. I personally had to work hard at improving my attitude toward Austrailians after the '96 Olympics in Atlanta. Many Austrailians traveled here as part of a committee hosting the 2000 Olympics. Everyone I met from there treated Blacks in Atlanta like they were diseased, ignorant and unworthy. It hurt their image in my eyes but instead of blaming an entire continent I reached out to people from Austrailia when I did meet them to discuss the issue whenever I could. I also tried to research more of their history to try to figure out where this mindset may have originated. Countries are becoming more economiclly dependent on each other resulting in a global economy and the internet is allowing people to erase borders to find common ground. Let's hope that as this develops there will be no place on this planet in the future for racism and the superiority mindset.

Atlstoryteller, you have some interesting points and what you say is true
but even I have experienced it myself. Although I grew up in Australia from ten years of age and I consider myself as an Australian because even
my education is Australian I experienced a lot of hate from people who I don't know. For instance, some idiot would ask where you come from? I was
born in Yugoslavia. They yell out go back you Dago bastard. I tell them,
excuse me but the word Dago was a slang that was applied to the Italian Migrants and I'm not one of those. I wouldn't know what my country of birth looks like anymore, nobody there would know me, nor I
them and I don't have anything to go back to. I'm an Australian from Migrant parents so what are they talking about? What these kinds of people should remember is that Australia is a multicultural country and
is tolerant of all races regardless of color or creed. Except for a few
bad eggs as I call them it's a wonderful country to be proud of. 1/6/2009.