I have heard many horrid stories from friends and in the news about Australia being very racist. But at the same time there are so many non-white people emmigrate to Australia. And their leader, excuse me for saying this; look like an a$$hole to me...

John Howard,



And how come he seem to be in office forever in Australia?

I think australia is not racist, except they dont like muslim population, but asians should not afraid of being there.

Many old Aussies have a paranoia of the Japanese from WWII

no more so than the uk.

u judged the austrailian president or whatever negatively based soley on his looks... what does that say

Ive been to sydney a few times and it's very multicultural never had any problems its like a home from home if I could its one of the places I would emmigrate to.

I've heard it's kind of racist but I've never been there. It depends on who you talk to I guess. Outside of Americans I've seen very few people admit that there is a decent amount of racism that occurs in their respective countries.

my cusin lives there.....i heard the asian kick it together im communties and are very strong over there

Yes, Anglo-Saxon Aussies are racist because they think every "coloured" person is out to attack their "values". Although alot of people with a non-Anglo-Saxon consider those "values" to be inferior.

BTW, to understand whether Australia is racist or not you must look at the plight of the Aboriginals.

I've been to Aussie land a few times and never experienced any sort of racism. Everything seems very laid back over there.

Interesting vids about racism towards aboriginals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GHPhYqMr4w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj203pbiDmo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBKicYGEpsU

Also, before they dispise the fact that Australia is considered to be part of Asia - pacific. They don't want to relate to those poor east and southeast asian people. Now they see east and southeast asia as a growing power, suddenly they want to join every asian organizations like the ASEAN and want to be part of the asian community. Pathetic if you ask me......

Aussies are not naturally racist

They may come accross racist because their a little ignorant side

Culturally they're from convict stock and are more apt to question authority and old colonial values...they're very aware of their negative history in regards to Australlian Aborigines and don't have the same contempt that some Americans feel towards African Americans

If anything they are racist to poms (the brits) they really cant stand them despite most of them originating from the UK.

^ Bloody POMS

It's all they ever say

"Hey, did you hear about the POM who married an Aussie Prostitute, and brought her down to his level??"

anyways, HELL-NO. All my 12 years here, i have never encountered racism..Plus, we have heaps of HOT-CHICKS yay.

^ Everytime I go over to Australia its funny coz they think I'm just a local ABC and freak out when they here my british accent half the time they think Im takn the p8ss and putting it on.

I hear them moan all the time about POMS, I remember standing at a Bar near a group of locals and all I heard was "look at them pommy Bstads man they are fukn ugly" "pommy bstads" and I will just be standing there smiling.

Well should be thankful that none of comments are directed to us Asians yet.

:P

the "real" aussies don't like anyone who isn't descended from a convict.

Well,I am in OZ,I'd like to say they're the nicest people u could ever meet. Nothing bad ever happens in OZ,except the occasional drought and recently some barber attracted outrage for not paying salaries to his apprentices.They hear more bad stuff about foreigners in their news and newspapers,so maybe they are cautious with foreigners rather than being racist.

Anyway,John Howard is an @$$ hole and is actually the butt of jokes in all Australian newspapers even in the pro-government newspapers.he's often protrayed as a short bald man with jutting lips.

yes it is. no one can stand the wogs.
"they're not gonna take away my slice of paradise"

What I remember from our family's couple years in Adelaide - the Italians and Greeks stuck to themselves. Clean and tight nit community - The Socceroos really benefit from their participation in Soccer. Aussies didn't seem to dislike them