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Race, media and cultural identities in Australia : Comments
By Andrew Jakubowicz, published 12/4/2010The level of inter-cultural knowledge in Australia remains extraordinarily low: the media ensure there is very little presence of people of colour.
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Civillisation wasn’t built on anglo saxon communitys . if you can trace the rise of civilized societys Anglo Saxon societys flourished after the roman Invasion . They were an invasive Colonial force in the 18th and 19 century . All races depending on their environment and culture will produce intelligent humans . If you look at all the inventions of different civilizations you might find quite a surprise as to who invented what. But its endemic in right wing nationalistic Australian society that they are superior
To others and their languages they use fails to show common universal respect for the all the people of the civilized world . If you have a facist nationalistic agenda then you control the media . The problem we have now is a new generation who were brought up under the Howardism . They are extremely right wing , more aggressive and have limited understanding of universal values . They have a redneck Top Down approach . In aworld of 20 million australians and 6 billion people in the world who are of different multi racial origins . It will become a problem when Australia run’s out of resources and Australians are trying to compete for international markets Just the other day an unemployed person I know was asked by an ethnic trade employer are you a racist . I was quite surprised by this and the nationalistic agenda started by Howardism is dividing a cohesive society Coupled together with Silent Racism in the media . The rudd govertmenis slightly better but is no different . the move to the right may serve the needs of the rednecks but the implications for the future will be a setback for a greater Cohesive Australi