Mnemonic wrote on Jul 15th, 2013 at 10:40pm:Lol. It's white vs white!!!
My "racist" father says nasty things about white people from time to time. |
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Tell him I forgive him.
I too say nasty things about white people from time to time ~ and my own ass is
white....
Mnemonic wrote on Jul 15th, 2013 at 10:40pm:| Those racist rants on public transport I have seen posted on YouTube recently are getting interesting. I would hate to see my father, a first-generation, foreign-born immigrant, get into an altercation with those xenophobes. That would be embarrassing. I wonder what he'll say. I hope I'm miles away when it happens. I wouldn't want to be in the middle of that storm. |
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I've watched them too. In a couple of cases I personally would have physically shut them up myself rather than be made an unwilling accomplice to their rude and unfair behaviour by not intervening.
But there were a couple of YouTubes of women in England having a rant on buses in London, and in those particular cases I probably would have said nothing.
I would have left it as an education to all the ethnics in these buses that there IS an alternative view of Britain having been invaded by foreigners than the cozy view that the politicians and self-haters would have the ethnics believe.
The mass-immigration that has swamped Britain was imposed on the population from on high. It was 'push'-politics, not 'pull'-politics that has resulted in London now being a shrinking white minority with nearly 2 million Muslims living in the London area.
What people refer to as 'racism' is in fact 'tribalism'. Polish immigration is deeply resented in parts of Britain by the local whites. Tribal loyalties come to the fore when ones town becomes flooded with Polish shop signs, Polish this and Polish that.
Mnemonic wrote on Jul 15th, 2013 at 10:40pm:| I think Charles Teo was right. Racism isn't just a problem for white people, but ethnic minorities as well. If white people have to stop being racist, ethnic minorities have to stop being racist as well. |
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I believe that in many cases where whites are being accused of 'racism', this is a lazy substitute for the far more correct 'culturalism'.
Mnemonic wrote on Jul 15th, 2013 at 10:40pm:| I think what Chard is misunderstanding here is that white people everywhere are always the dominant group. I think the "Battle of Brisbane" riots showed that not all whites are equal and white people don't even always respect each other, even if they speak the same language. The white American soldiers that landed in Australia during World War II were condescending and patronising towards the white Australian soldiers. I think the white Australian soldiers were so annoyed at being treated like second-class citizens in their own country that they started being friendly toward the African American soldiers. They even allowed their women to hang around them. I suppose their logic was, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend," and fraternising with African American soldiers was a way of "sticking it to the white Americans." |
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Interesting.
The way I heard it, when the Americans arrived here, the Australian women couldn't believe how well-mannered and courteous these soldiers were. The Australian women found themselves being treated as equals to the men, and their conversation was valued by these Yanks.
Previous to this Cultural Shock event, the Australian women were used to being relegated to a corner where the women were to gather in complete separation from the men.
The Americans had money, manners, sophistication, were good at conversation and dancing ~ and ENJOYED the company of women.
And so... the average Aussie thought of them as 'poofs'.
If you weren't a drunken, swearing, fist-fighting, vomiting Aussie male ~ then you were a 'poof!'. ;D ;D ;D
My father spent the war years here in Australia before returning to north China. He hated both Australians
and the Yanks. ;D
Those American soldiers were nearly all of Irish, Italian, Polish, and Hispanic background.
Mnemonic wrote on Jul 15th, 2013 at 10:40pm:| Because white Australians were part of a tiny, insignificant nation of only several million and had never had any big influence on the world, they didn't have the same "big ego" as white Americans. |
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I'm not too sure about that. When I came to Australia from England in 1962, the first thing that struck me was how loudly the Australian male talked. Everything was said in a loud and forceful way. You were practically shouted at by them.
Mnemonic wrote on Jul 15th, 2013 at 10:40pm:| The original intention was for Australia to be a "white paradise." Until the 1970s, Australia was one of the whitest and most "British" (by ancestry) nations in the world. However, the progressive faction in politics decided that the White Australia Policy just couldn't continue. I'm not sure if it was the "populate or perish" argument or because of the number of non-British people already living in Australia, married to white spouses or who were born here and couldn't be deported. |
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I'll say this about your ordinary, working-class Aussie male ~ I think they are genuinely the least racist people in the world. And even I'm surprised by this.
