Media practitioners, Australian and global, have again proved themselves to be unreliable stirrers.

Attacks on Indian students are to be deplored, as are attacks on anyone; but they do not warrant the screaming headlines: “Australia a Racist Country”.

There are around 80,000 Indian students living in Australia, and a small handful of them have been attacked. And, it is said, attacked by people described as ‘islanders’: not your typical white, Anglo-Australians, who, despite the blather about multiculturalism, are still held up to the world as the chief ‘racists’ in the country.

The ragtag minority of Indian students who demonstrated in Melbourne clearly overlooked the institutionalised discrimination against people of different castes in their own country where Indian students are bashed regularly on the Delhi metro, according to Indian national, Akash Arora writing in The Age today. These incidents are not even reported.

“Don't believe the media hype: racism is often a two-way street”, was the heading of his article.

Good advice.

As usual, Leigh uncovers the all important voice of reason and sanity.

Agree fully Leigh,

Another excuse for proclaiming a mythical social divide

The whole charade is pure hysteria and something else for the institutional guilt peddlers (of the left and anarchistic styles) to pretend to beat us all with.

With the Indian Caste system still alive and well and practiced throughout the country, there is little India could ever be taught by Australia about any "ism".

Ok I admit it I confused, what is it that is actually the topic here.
a. The media went over the top,
b. because the Indian students are to blame for blowing up the incidents (their being attacked)in Melb out of proportion.
c. That this is what you get with having mixed races (and not insisting on assimilation?).
Or
d. it was probably them other foreigners anyway.

Leigh since it's your post can you please clarify ?
thanks examinator.ant

Have the Police commented on the statistics regarding disproportionate bashings on Indian students?.

I'm kinda asking if the students have a valid complaint...

Dear Leigh,

I didn't know too much about Indian Student bashings
until I began to scrawl the subject on the web, and read
the newspaper editorials online. They're actually
quite horrific, especially the case of that student
returning home to Werribee - where 16 year olds bashed
him senseless on the train - and no-one, I repeat -
no-one, came to his aid.

And you guys are complaining about a newspaper headline
calling the act 'racist,' because of the caste system
in India? This incident took place here - not in
India - and why aren't any of you outraged by it, instead
of being outraged by the newspaper headline?

Would you have been more outraged if the student would
have been a Brit - studying here in Australia?

Or even if the student would have been an Aussie?

I guess hidden anti-migrant prejudices aren't voiced in
public until they are highlighted by some well-publicized
event - like this bashing.

I guess this just proves that
some Australians still believe that 'a unique
Australian society and identity emerged with Federation...
and this identity should be the basis of immigrant
assimilation...'

And you question the fact of the 'racist,' label.

The profound absurdity of this thread is still sinking in.

There is no other way to interpret Leigh's argument than "foreigners shouldn't complain about being bashed in Australia, because they might have also been bashed in their own country.

Now I can't wait for the next time women march against domestic violence. I'm dying to hear Leigh opine that they should shut up because about it because they could just as easily have been assaulted outside their house.

Yep, two wrongs always make a right.