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Welcome to another edition of I Call Bullshit, a column dedicated to codswallop. Today we’re going to look at racism in Australia.
We were treated to nauseating scenes yesterday of a bunch of dumb, drunk idiots taunting, bullying and threatening a woman who was singing in French.
Today in news from the UK we hear that a New Zealander was branded a “stupid, fat Australian bitch” by her neighbour… and a court found the neighbour guilty of a “racially aggravated public disorder”.
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Traditionalists worry about the undue influence of American culture on Australia. Republicans stress about our British links. Hansonites panic about Muslims and Asians.
But it’s the French we should be keeping an eye on.
‘What French Women Know: About Love, Sex and Other Matters of the Heart and Mind’ is the latest book by American-in-Paris writer Debra Ollivier. In it, Ollivier decodes the French mystique, arguing French chicks are so sexy because they “don’t give a damn”.
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Tim (actuallly in France) says:
Despite what Australians might think of France, I have yet to meet a French person who doesn’t like Australia. Read more »
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Tim (actaully in France) says:
All of this is pretty funny. I am an Australian living and working in France for the past twelve years and these clichés are obviously rooted in some truths but the reality is always more nuanced. Of course there are the super-chic, as well as the super-snobs, the super-peasants, the… Read more »
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