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From the Chk Chk Boom girl to the anti-Indian ratbags in Melbourne, Australians are racist. I’ve come to this conclusion not because I’ve got three university degrees but because I’ve spent the past four decades being asked if I’m a curry-muncher.

Not in a rude or insulting or abusive way, well, generally not. But in that genial, good-natured, piss-takey Australian way.

Which is still racist, and which explains why so many foreigners – to use a popular and racist Australian term for non-Australians – regard us as such.

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  • Scott says:

    10:15am | 21/01/10

    This is a major issue, there are SO many things written just here, this all pains, depresses and angers me deeply. I’ve had to go on about this a lot recently, so I shall make this is short as possible. Australia was founded, settled and built by British (Cornish, English,… Read more »

  • Fortune Dagger says:

    10:09am | 07/01/10

    Penbo, agree with you 100%. I’m a first-gen with Germanic and Asiatic parents - I speak the best Strine (maaate) and received a first-rate suburban Aussie upbringing. Like you I’ve spent 40 years explaining “where I come from” to people who ask, sometimes from benign motives, sometimes not. Living in… Read more »

 

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