Australians racist ? By my experience in communities I have to say that the %age of racism in Australia is roughly thus; 50 % indigenous, 25 % non-white non-indigenous & 25 % white. Perhaps the scale is different in the dense population of the cities.
I base this on my observation that the indigenous place their loyalty towards their own kind no matter how right or wrong. For me loyalty towards integrity is #1. My loyalty towards a friend ceases as soon as I believe he/she is doing wrong. If I point the finger at wrongdoing race does not come into the equation. Why does it make someone a racist when someone from another race is doing something wrong ? That's a matter of right or wrong , not racism !

Country girl,

What point are you making?' Culture'is not synonymous with 'race',so what's the significance of a 'multicultural' award? If, in fact, they were equivalent terms 'multicultural awards' would be, in my opinion, rather patronising and er.....'racist',as they would single out ethnic groups as special categories and therefore not part of mainstream society.Why not 'Australian awards'?

CJ Morgan,

<<The racists will claim that because Islam is a religion rather than a 'race', their bigotry isn't racism,
but this is a disingenuous rationalisation at best.>>

What you say is complete balderdash, as we've come to expect.

I know from speaking to others that the following are not my sentiments alone:

Arab Christians, you are more than welcome to come to Australia to escape
the 1400 years of persecution by Muslims in the Middle East.

Arab Muslims, if you believe in the Koran, which clearly exhorts all Muslims to
"kill the disbelievers wherever you find them"(Sura 2:191),
then please stay in the Middle East.

Does that make me a racist or merely anti-Islamic?

Why don't you actually read up on Islam CJ?

You're free and easy with the word bigotry, but you don't seem to understand what it actually signifies.

Re: “The spread of anti-aboriginal sentiment to immigrants”

How might such sentiment develop?

A young Asian woman related the following to me just the other day .

“My daughter had to fight long and hard to get into dentistry – and we worked long hours to get enough money to afford coaching for her.
Just down the hall from my daughter is a girl of aboriginal descent, she got into the same faculty the easy way ”

From our relationship I doubt anyone prompted her –her experience of life in multicultural Australia nurtured that sentiment!

When you start distributing benefits/rights on the basis of ethnic identity you create inter-group discord.

Yes,Proxy,

Moslems aren't a 'race' anymore than communists are a 'race'(if there are any left). The equation of race and religion is simply a tactic to silence criticism of those repugnant ideologies that threaten our liberties.There are many 'useful idiots' who are conned by this trick, unfortunately.

Very Perceptive Mac...

yep..there are a couple.. maybe just a few more..not many.. definitely a sad minority.. who would vilify National Socialism as 'odious'...but when more clearly expressed ideas of hate, loathing and racism are found in another ideology.. they are mute.. see no evil hear no evil and speak no evil..

It's a concern when people who claim a decent education come up with rubbish like this.. it's complete irrationality and has no academic merit whatsoever.. to the point where it makes you wonder if they ever completed a critical essay on anything.

Only an irrational fool would equate religion with race. The simple fact that 'white' caucasians can be Muslim and equally subject to the criticism of their ideas or beliefs would convince all but the most bigoted hater of truth.

Bigoted anti australian racist fearmongering is a huge challenge here.. we need to combat it wherever we find it. Don't let it get any air mate. Expose PC bigotry at every opportunity. All they do is generate an odious fear and loathing for people based on their political or religious opinions. I suppose we should add "sheer hypocrisy" to the list of things to denounce :)

Here is a site which is one of the most loathesome examples of this awful blight on our society.
Please check it out.. you won't believe how racist it is.

http://www.acrawsa.org.au/