Sol did have a point, all Australians are, to varying degrees, racist and intolerant like any society anywhere.

There is nothing new or unusual there.

Unfortunately some Australians like to point out that everyone but themselves are racist .. don't they?

The fact that Sol didn't appreciate the Australian sense of humour, and did not take enough interest in the country and its people to know that we treat everybody the same here - we are not Americans or Mexicans - was the problem.

Sol came here to make big bucks. He was like many of the Hollywood faded stars who come to Australia when they are on their last legs. They are not interested in Australia; they are interested only in themselves,and they don't know that the rest of the world is not a copy of the good old US of A.

Whatever rascist attitudes exist in Australia Sol Trujillo is not a good example. Adios and many over foriegn words have become part of the Australian language. They are used with without judgement of their origins. If someone used the french or Itailian expression for goodbye anyone thing it was rascist.
Sol Trujillo is a horrible little man who destroyed customer service at Telstra and drove the share price down. For this he recevied indecent amounts odf money. I would like to add 'please don't come back' to Mr Rudds farewell.
Rascism is some thing we need to look at, but using Sol Trujillo as an example is going to help the cause.

No, Sol Trujillo doesn't have a point in my opinion.
The cry of 'racism' or that other term 'fascism'is just very poor anti-intellectual sloganeering.

People in every antion desire that their countries reamin sovereign nation states. It is the aim of international capital for reasons of power and profit to utilise their willing accomplices who are liberals, libertines and socialists ( these three latter groups operating out of ideological reaons)to destroy national and ethnic identities of the majority within nation states.

Yes most people have a desire to ensure th survival of their culture and national group and most Anglo and Celtic descended Aussies, of whic I am one, feel comfortable with that and will not entertain or be ashamed by either big corporations nor their ideological enemies who make strange bedfellows with their cries of 'racism'.

Corporates are allegedly anti-'racist' so as to fllod all nations with immigrants so as to drive down wages and organised labour through 'diversity'( another nonsense term). Liberals and socialsits are strange bedfellows also as they wish to see the death of our Christian heritage and what better way than to get the majority to feel ashamed and to get out the secualr sackcloth and ashes.

the argument that "all countries are racist and australia is nothing special" is just plain wrong. when one arrives here from another country one is instantly confronted with the obvious racism and blatant exclusion of whole sections of australia's population from mainstream culture. no australian black people anywhere, not on buses or in taxis, not in school yards or in supermarkets, and never on tv unless standing on one leg looking at the sunset. and the unconscious racism is so deep most aussies actually believe they live in an “egalitarian” country. and the "well we aussies just treat everyone the same" and the “they should pull themselves together and stop asking for special treatment” argument is also complete rubbish as well..people are not "all the same". peoples’ experiences, histories and heritage are different. committing near complete genocide on an entire race of people and then expecting the survivors to just "behave like us aussies" is simply insane and shows the deep structural hatred inherent in the colonial australian education and cultural system. people who say this kinda denial stuff, at best i think, need psychological treatment of some kind. at worst they need locking up before they harm themselves and others.........and yes, you might not like it, but it’s really obvious, have a real good hard look at yourselves, for the sake of your children.

The majority of Italian, Greek, Maltese and other immigrants from the assimilationist periods post World War II to the 1970s era accepted tehn and demand now via theri views to me that assimialtion is the best way forward and that it is not an insult to them at all.
They saw they continue with their customs which are Catholic or Orthodox and this chimes in well with the majority of Anglo and Celtic Catholic Aussies here.
It is only some recent arrivals who have hostile attitudes to our majority way of life and values.
Not all values are the same and many are not morally equivalent either. Some customs and beliefs that are not consistent with Christian charity, Catholic trade union heritage which built this antion up with good wages and standards and knock off time after 5pm shouild be preserved. The low standards of soem more recent arrivals need to be met with the full force of our laws and in fact many of our laws ditched under political correctness need to be restored. The ungratefulness of a small minority will be thus hit head on as such attitudes deserve! Most old style patriotic Labor working class people who are sick of the elites that run the ALP today will be cheering heartily. Bring it all on I say.