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03 Jun 05:14am

Filed under: Chk Chk Boom, India Violence, Racism, Sol Trujillo

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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Leisha says:

10:56am | 17/10/12

It isn’t Scott, I would never do it in a million years and cringe when I hear others doing it. Imagine if you had just arrived in this country and someone called you a curry muncher? Imagine how that would make you feel? You would be made to feel isolated… Read more »
Leisha says:

10:32am | 17/10/12

It’s interesting you make that point Chris because I have travelled to other parts of the world whereby I am consistently asked if I am American or English, simply because I am white and speak English, I must say it really doesn’t bother me, I find it kind of funny… Read more »

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