http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/stephen-evans/ Stephen Evans presents Business Daily on the BBC World Service.  Before that, he was the BBC’s North America Business Correspondent, based in New York.  He’s married to an Australian and spends much time in Sydney and even more in Melbourne.    en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/is-australia-too-immature-to-examine-its-racism/ Ed’s note: Stephen is the BBC reporter who asked former Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo whether Australians are racist. Here he explains why he asked the question. G’day, mate! Strewth. Did you hear what Kevin said about that Mexican and his amigos. Gave it to him straight, cobber, like a true blue Aussie. Senor Sol won’t be going walkabout near our billabong any time soon. Offensive, isn’t it? And it’s offensive because it’s patronising. It’s a tired cliché that portrays Australians falsely as hicks and provincials and so distorts and devalues a modern country. Which is presumably exactly what all those sombreros and cheap Mexican tunes and words like “adios” were meant to do. Rather than take Sol Trujillo on his merits, it was his background that was the salient point about him. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Stephen Evans) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/is-australia-too-immature-to-examine-its-racism/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/is-australia-too-immature-to-examine-its-racism/#item443 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:58:14 +0000 Stephen Evans | Author bios | The Punch