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Slimebeast on 07 November 2010
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Doobie_wop said:
Slimebeast said:
Doobie_wop said:
Chairman-Mao said:
deskpro2k3 said:
Chairman-Mao said:
deskpro2k3 said:

this used to happen in America too.


What's that got to do with anything?


You'll be surprised.


Why don't you be more specific instead of wasting my time?

I think his trying to say that it's a problem that's exclusive to that region. Discrimination attacks happen in first world countries as well, in Australia for example, 5,000 people gathered together and started a riot against the Lebanese community, bashing anyone that looked middle eastern and marching through the streets calling for middle eastern extermination and pretty much being blatantly racist ( a few radio hosts and political figures joined in as well).

My cousin and his friends had been leaving a party a few months ago and they were bashed close to death by a local football team, pretty much because my cousin and his friends are Lebanese. These kind of attacks happen all the time, it's obviously going to be worst in that part of the world, but it isn't something exclusive to that region.

That's what I think he meant anyway.

That was a reaction against years of increasing violence by Middle Easterners in Australia.

Something you see far too seldom in the West because they're letting their own people get raped.

The actions of a few thugs doesn't warrant a 5,000 strong riot, which involved the bashing of many people. The Lebanese community was always treated like shit in Sydney, people had to go to beaches and parks in groups, because they were scared they were going to get bashed by Australian elitists back in the 80's and early 90's. When you've been involved in enough attacks like the one my cousin was in, you'd be willing to flex some muscles as well. I've been the victim of the same type of discrimination, I've got a scar on the back of my head, because some Aussie guy decided that it'd be funny to hit that Lebanese kid with a cricket bat.

Australia has some serious issues when it comes to racism and discrimination, I've had friends commit suicide, been bashed and abused based on their background. My parents went through the same thing back in their day, but no one cares, we have a negative stereotype placed on us and it's easier for people to stay ignorant about us, instead of actually learning about the people. Indians, Vietnamese, Greeks and Macedonians went through a similar situation. It only depends on what's 'in' in Australia, 15 years ago it was Greeks, 10 years ago it was Vietnamese, 5 years ago it was Lebanese and now it's Indians. These things shouldn't be happening in a first world country. 

Your rape comment is also inappropriate. Australians have the highest rape count in the country, but that doesn't make for interesting news, instead they find the 5 rape cases out of 10,000 that involve a person of a different background, make that headline news and it gathers more hits. I find it extremely offensive when I open a newspaper and see two rape cases, one of them lists the description of the character as a Muslim, Middle Eastern man, with a wide brow,dark skin, born in Iran, from the suburb of Springsvale and so on. The other rapist is just described as a young troublemaker and that's it, then as soon as you do a bit of research, you find out it was a young Australian guy who has returned to school after raping a mentally handicapped girl. 

I classify myself as an Australian, but the original 'settlers' classify themselves as the only true Australians. It's hard to make friends, when everyone's spitting in your eye. I'm sorry for going so far off topic, but you shouldn't comment on things you don't know about.

This doesn't sound like Australia you are describing. Maybe Greece or Italy (countries with tougher attitude towards against immigrants) but not a country like Australia.