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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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Jayb - I'll make it simple for you.

You classify people on the basis of discredited and biologically meaningless 'racial' categories. Ergo, you're a racist.

To help you understand why such categories are meaningless to anybody except racists, perhaps you could tune into the documentary series called "Human Journey" that is currently screening on ABC1. While it's dumbed down for general viewers, the science upon which it is based is up to date. There's been two episodes so far, both of which are available for viewing on iView.

Ask yourself this: how does it increase your understanding of people to arbirarily divided them into categories based on their skin colour or other phenotypic differences?
Posted by CJ Morgan, Saturday, 20 March 2010 9:18:25 AM
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I merely quoted some of the Anthropogical books I have in my Library.
Eg; A History of Sth East Asia. Books 1/2 Parts 1/2 each,
(Cambridge), The History Atlas of Sth East Asia, (Macmillian), The Penguin Atlas of Ancient History, (McEvedy), The Atlas of World Archaelogy, (Bahn). Just to point to a few of the many books on the subject I own. Admittedly not Uni standard, but enough. I have one of Pilmers as well. One can only go on what information is available & quote that. It may or may not be what one agrees with personally. But the people who write these books are supposed to know so I tend to believe that. Some books differ in thought on exact origins , but that's a healthy thing.
I've spent 3 years living in Sth East Asia with the local people as an equal, not in the cities. I come from country Nth Qld so most of my mates were/are Abo/Islanders, (Now, they... don't like one another). I served in the 15 years in the Army with many Indigenious soldiers who are still great mates. None of the 40 or so ethnic or idigenious people around here that I regularly associate with consider me to be racist. (I've asked them.) On the contrary the said they wished everybody was more like me. I personally don't care what colour, creed or ethnic background anybody is. It's the person you are dealing with that matters. So there ;-p
Posted by Jayb, Saturday, 20 March 2010 10:16:40 AM
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Dear CJ, did you see all your ethnic friends rioting in Melbourne last night. I couldn't find it on your favourite hate website but it is in most of the papers and video footage is easily available. As you can see most are your Southern European friends. I believe it was a warmup rehearsal for harmony day (dirty propaganda day). So sit back, relax and soak up the Ethnic Violent culture, how wonderful.
Posted by ozzie, Saturday, 20 March 2010 7:38:17 PM
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