But now i feel i need to rant about racism. Racist, ignorant, bitch, douchebag... for me, they can generally all be classified together. If you don't want to read an honest, pro-refugee, anti-Aussie Pride rant i suggest you close this now. if this makes you feel less of me, no dramas... i daresay i already do of you.
I can understand if a 'fear' of what is different can affect people but not recognising human rights and the kinds of things that everyone should be allowed to enjoy is downright deplorable. Due to this difference factor, not every race is being forced to deal with racism. Europeans, Americans... they are like us. There's nothing wrong with them. but when it comes to Africans and Asians... you may as well be trying to walk down Cronulla beach with the cast of Fat Pizza.
I wish more people would understand how wrong their stances are. not so much even in terms of compassion and empathy, because not everyone can feel this. but just with their purported facts and brainwashed minds. Studying social work this semester gave me the opportunity to look at many facets of refugee life that i would have never known and see and read things that i wish i didn't. ignorance is not bliss. but sometimes knowledge isn't either.
Media construes work in such a way to assist governmental parties and inject fear into the Australian people. Tony Abbot wants to keep the boats out?? a total of 2% of our annual refugee intake per year. couldn't that money be better spent elsewhere? people get on boats out of desperation. i get queasy when it gets rough on Sydney harbour and, one of the few times i have ever wished i could die was on a boat in the Mediterranean. i would not wish it upon many enemies to have to take a small boat for weeks on end in. but these people have reached their last tether. they have no choice. apparently a better life awaits them and their families. in terms of queue jumping... there are no queues. when will people realise this? it is about luck, not waiting in line. and, from what i witness trying to get on to buses and trains, no Australians are too keen to wait in a queue either!! perhaps they are embracing our way of life and assimilating to our practices!!
Ban the Burqa seems to be rife on facebook which, although i probably would rather read about this than something about nan and the c-word, really promotes some of my friends as a bunch of racist elitists. aussie pride can easily become nationalism and maybe one day neo-nazism... and that is really scary. These people seem to cite that it is our culture so they need to assimilate...their religion is not welcome... well excuse me but i might just take a look and...yep!! Australia does not have an official religion!! we are welcoming to all religions and people are not allowed to be lambasted due to their beliefs. In fact people can walk around in whatever get-up they desire and have a right to be able to strut it. and why should't they? what if they commit crimes with their faces covered up? Have you tried to run away from a crime scene in a burqa? it looks pretty flipping difficult.
our nation was created on immigration. the first boat people, the First Fleet, came here because of over-crowding. Now, people are coming to Australia because of war and famine. It is within anyone's right to take refuge in another country when they feel they are in danger. Just because we cannot empathise as much as possible due to our luck of being born and raised here, it is no need to say that no one else should enjoy the splendours that Australia has to offer. I hope you have been watching Go Back To Where You Came From and seen how badly some of the people on it have been portrayed.. no, not the refugees, but the Australians. if that is what you want to look like maybe we should put you all in a closed community somewhere in the South Australian desert...
it's disjointed and badly put together but okay i'm done.
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