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You Americans are so sad

posted 10 years ago by StakkaDakka
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I've just looked at the first couple of pages of this board and about 90% of the discussion is devoted to discussing RACE. Why are you all so goddam obsessed with RACE? I am Australian, we have a very multicultural society. While it certainly has its pockets of racism, it is nowhere near as colour-coded as your awful society. I can say in all honesty it never occurred to me even for a second while watching this film that the lead actors were different skin colours. I did not even notice, let alone care. That's because I wasn't raised in a culture that talks about 'us' and 'them' and what one colour does or doesn't do and the differences between colours and who should or shouldn't mix and BLAH BLAH BLAH. It;s all product of hate and fear. Why can't you just treat each other like human beings instead of dividing up into your little 'teams'. It really is both sad and sickening.

/end rant

[–] CaptainSexMachine 8 years ago

Why can't you just treat each other like human beings instead of dividing up into your little 'teams'.

So ironic coming from a guy who started his rant with "You Americans"

[–] sleepingtiger (712) 8 years ago

Stakka:
Racism is just as bad in Australian society as it as anywhere else---it's no multicultural paradise, from what I've read,either.

[–] BourbonKing (5789) 7 years ago

Australia is majority Caucasian country and has been for a while due to their European-only immigration policies that weren't fully dismantled until the 1970s. They also weren't nice to the Aborigines for the longest time. There's a reason Australia has a particularly low amount of citizens of Asian descent even though Billions of Asians surround the continent.