ORIGINS OF MAN,
It's not that simple because these monkeys have been trained in australian institutions plus you offered no peanuts.

Susan

when you say things like,

'the majority of Australians these days (well, the younger ones at least) are far more willing to take everyone on their individual merits rather than the colour of their skin, or their country of origin.'

'...for the hopefully more tolerant future in Australia.'

you imply we are still clinging to the attitudes of the past and haven't changed terribly much. You imply were are intolerant and unwilling to be non racist.

That is bringing your experience in the past into our present. It is an attempt to assign yesterdays sins to us today.

We have already changed from those attitudes and you haven't accepted that.

Either way,

How can any chinese come from Sarawak?

@Chek Ling,

<<He is sometimes aware that his views do not endear him to Chinese community leaders as a whole>> aint that a fact!

Yet he still has the gall to subtitle his rant:
<<Free speech, bigotry, from a Chinese Australian perspective>>

He should have said: from *one (individual) Chinese persons* perspective!

SPQR...I think the meaning of the words fits well with-in the given understandings of which all are exercising the boundaries of the individuality right, which one should exercise with extreme caution:)and I just love anthropology, hence the title I come up with, that reflex's a bendable fine line that we all ride on from time to time as evolution/God plays its cards however big or small it may seem.

Now, we are all playing in the same sand box, and by all means, think of the world as one......its not that far away.

Kat

<<we are all playing in the same sand box...>>

By "we" I take it you mean you and Chek Ling?