Like a billion other people in India, I am sick of listening to and watching news of Indian being mobbed, attacked, and cursed at by a small bunch a racist idiots in Australia. While it is but natural to react to such incidents, and slam the governance and security, it is also important to research and find the root cause of this violence and hatred against non-whites — Indians just happen to be in the news because of the massive population.
Australia is a beautiful country. Personally, I had an opportunity to work with Australians while at Google. They are a great bunch of people who enjoy their Fosters and their Cricket. I made a few great friends and we talk almost on a daily basis.
The only time I hate Australia is when they beat India at a Cricket game. That sucks! But then, they have a brilliant cricket team — thank God Macgrath and Warne are now retired.
All the love aside, Australia in the past had adopted certain policies which were racial and internationally criticized. One of the outstanding ones is the White Australia policy which comprises various historical policies that intentionally restricted “non-white” immigration to Australia from 1901 to 1985. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_policy)
Though this policy is now long gone, I fear that there are still some morons out there who swear by it and consider other races a threat (in early days Chinese and Japanese immigrants were considered a threat)
If this is not cruel enough, I was shocked to learn about “The Stolen Generations.” These are non white kids (mostly mixed) who were taken away from their parents and forced admitted into a missionary school/ establishment.
Australia’s history has tons of episodes full of racial discrimination and burns in hate and violence. That said, over the past few decades Australia has taken great strides and have opened up its border for people from all races and color.
Unfortunate, even in the 21st century there are a few folks out there who on the name of color and superiority end up discriminating and take the path of violence.
Stop it! It sucks.
Peace
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