Why Are Australians So Bigoted?

[seer]

Or are they just rational?

Transgender barred from women’s Aussie rules football draft due to ‘unreasonable physical advantage’

http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/10...cal-advantage/

[Sparko]

I thought Australia and New Zealand were so much more progressive than everyone else?

[seer]

I thought Australia and New Zealand were so much more progressive than everyone else?

Not when it comes to football! Good to see some sanity from downunder,...

[KingsGambit]

What do you expect from a lot of convicts?

[seer]

What do you expect from a lot of convicts?

Yep! That explains Tassman!

[EvoUK]

I was travelling around Oz in 2006, and spent almost all my time in the smaller ‘outback’ communities, rather than the larger, more cosmopolitan cities.

It may be the farmers and construction workers I was spending all my time with, but I must admit that I was mildly surprised & shocked by the casual racism.

My boss hated the government at the time because they were the ones to give the -excuse the term- ‘Abbos’ the right to vote a few years previously.

I won’t even go into the term they used for Asians.


However, I suppose if I went into a lower socioeconomic group here in the UK I’d probably find similar opinions, so I doubt it was exclusive to Australia.

[One Bad Pig]

I was travelling around Oz in 2006, and spent almost all my time in the smaller ‘outback’ communities, rather than the larger, more cosmopolitan cities.

It may be the farmers and construction workers I was spending all my time with, but I must admit that I was mildly surprised & shocked by the casual racism.

My boss hated the government at the time because they were the ones to give the -excuse the term- ‘Abbos’ the right to vote a few years previously.

I won’t even go into the term they used for Asians.


However, I suppose if I went into a lower socioeconomic group here in the UK I’d probably find similar opinions, so I doubt it was exclusive to Australia.

Racism is unfortunately more common than not. My cousin speaks fluent Japanese, and was able to find the occasional job in Tokyo, but could find absolutely no work in Kyoto. Anti-Semitism is rampant in Europe, and Muslim Arabs look down on non-Arab Muslims.

[seer]

Racism is unfortunately more common than not. My cousin speaks fluent Japanese, and was able to find the occasional job in Tokyo, but could find absolutely no work in Kyoto. Anti-Semitism is rampant in Europe, and Muslim Arabs look down on non-Arab Muslims.

That is true, I had Mexican neighbors for a number of years and they were bias against other Latinos who were "natives." They, the Mexicans, considered themselves European.

[Mountain Man]

In-group bigotry is a curious phenomenon, especially among minorities. For instance, blacks who think other blacks aren't "black" enough.

[Sparko]

In-group bigotry is a curious phenomenon, especially among minorities. For instance, blacks who think other blacks aren't "black" enough.

Or people like Tassman, JimL and Shunya who go around complaining about white people.

[seer]

Or people like Tassman, JimL and Shunya who go around complaining about white people.

No, that is not bias, it is mental illness.

[rogue06]

Racism is unfortunately more common than not. My cousin speaks fluent Japanese, and was able to find the occasional job in Tokyo, but could find absolutely no work in Kyoto. Anti-Semitism is rampant in Europe, and Muslim Arabs look down on non-Arab Muslims.

Big time. I had a friend who lived in Saudi Arabia for awhile when he was a teen. His accounts of how Pakistani and Filipino workers were treated makes the Jim Crow era South sound positively enlightened

[demi-conservative]

It may be the farmers and construction workers I was spending all my time with, but I must admit that I was mildly surprised & shocked by the casual racism.

Only small number of whites not racist (or tell themselves that). In rest of the world, racism is just air they breath.