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Land of opportunity, but not for monoculturalists : Comments

By Rachel Woodlock, published 17/2/2010

While young Muslim Australians can positively appreciate Australia as a land of opportunity, Ms Pauline Hanson cannot.

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A prime indicator of racism is known of its inherent characteristic of fear. Alike a financial bottom line, the principles of its tracing are a straightforward exercise.

Of that characteristic, a prime indicator is its proclivity and need to define ‘us and them,’ as alternative to reasonably considering the perspective of factors shared in common. Its aberration may be analogous to the axiom; the optimist sees the doughnut, the pessimist sees the hole.

I am able to extrapolate this train of thought in my subsequent posts.
Posted by Ngarmada, Saturday, 6 March 2010 1:15:22 PM
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Of my latter comment, the key may be observed of ’sharing.’ For another characteristic of racism is its ‘carpetbag’ culture, synonomous of sacking and pillaging, which demands unassailable right to own everything.

I may be able to exemplify this with the current example of the search for the Neanderthal Gnome. The Neanderthal Code is currently in the process of identifying that Gnome, as a number of western scientists are now contesting the notion Neanderthals became extinct with the onset of modern humans. They are challenging the long held assumption of modern humans forcing their extinction, observing scientific evidence potentially identifying the ‘assimilation’ of the Neanderthal with modern humans.

According to reasonable consideration, we may observe this new theory as synonomous of further aberrant assumption, for why may the Neanderthal not have ‘integrated’ with modern man. Indeed they cohabitated in the same environment for enough millenia for that potential to be highly possible.

Although there is no current evidence for such postulation, noone has actually been looking for such evidence. Reasonably, it may be observed such potential is severely restricted when the evidence available to work with is fossilised skeletal remains.

However the anomaly between the immediate consideration of ‘assimilation’ as alternative to ‘integration’ is readily observed of the cultural mindset in play. For the current assumption suggests potentially the only interaction between modern humans and Neanderthals, was conflict or war, flying in the face of known attributes of human cohabitation.

Observation of evidence pertaining to cultures of the age of only a few millenia, demonstrate their development of the enlightenment to generally live together without killing each other.

I am able to appreciate the inherent general psychosis of western culture that potentially realised such inherent fear, with its recorded history of rampaging through europe sacking and pillaging each other. However, in the 21st Century, you would reasonably consider it time it got some therapy, and resisted that urge to wilfully inflict the symptoms of its malaise upon others.
Posted by Ngarmada, Saturday, 6 March 2010 1:17:24 PM
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I think you mean Neanderthal genome. A gnome is something you put in your front garden.

Erfanka, if you go back a couple of hundred years there weren't really any breeds of dogs. So much of the breeding of dogs for specific physical traits has resulted in so many of the genetic defects and health problems that we see in dogs today. So yes dogs and humans are comparable - but with humans nazi eugenics was discredited decades ago.

And btw a beagle can be just as friendly as a lab, collie, a cav spaniel, a yorkie etc and so on and so on. So all the hoopla about dogs having behavioural traits is bunk. Its what you train them to do that matters and how you socialise them. Even pit bulls can be docile if socialised properly.
Posted by David Jennings, Saturday, 6 March 2010 1:42:07 PM
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Brerbare; My two children have a Torres Strait Islander mother and a Scottish/English/Irish/German father. What "race" do they belong to?

Apparently, according to CJ, The notion of Race is obsolete. But according to my book, "The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia Vol 1 & 2 parts 1 & 2 each" It would make your wife Proto-Australoid, your self Causcasoid; Sub; Nordic, Aryan, Celtic. Fairly much the same as everyone else in Australia of European descent, including me.

The Wikipedia has Race as;
The Current Concept as, Asian, Black & White.
The Major Historical Concept as, Capoid, Casasoid, Mongoloid, Negroid, Proto Australoid & Australoid.

The notion of Race can be based on many different things. Eg; Medical (Lactose intollerance, disease susceptability) & language, etc. I see now there is a therory that "Red Hair" is a trait left over from Homo Sapians interbreading with Neanderthals !? Does it realy matter?

Me, I don't care. People are just people & I treat them as I would want them to treat me.
Posted by Jayb, Saturday, 6 March 2010 1:48:16 PM
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So Jayb my children belong to the Proto-Australoid/Causcasoid; Sub; Nordic, Aryan, Celtic race?
And as my children both married members of the Causcasoid; Sub; Nordic, Aryan, Celtic race, my grandchildren belong to the Proto-Australoid/Causcasoid; Sub; Nordic, Aryan, Celtic race/Causcasoid; Sub; Nordic, Aryan, Celtic race?
Cripes Ngarmada has struck again.
Posted by blairbar, Saturday, 6 March 2010 2:56:18 PM
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It seems so, brer bear, it seems so. ;-)
Posted by Jayb, Saturday, 6 March 2010 3:07:04 PM
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