Is Australia By Far The Most Racially Tolerant Country In The World??

SharpshooterTom

Does anyone think Australia is amongst the most racially tolerant countries in the world?? If not the most racially tolerant??

I'm in Australia now, on holiday and I think what most people don't appreciate about Australia is just how diverse its become. The amount of Asian immigrants into the country proves this. I walk around Melbourne here today and I'm amazed at the amount of racial mixing that goes on. Most people seem to think of Australia as some backward white racist country. Infact most people speak of Australia on these forums as quite racist. But I find that stereotype not true at all.

I would say its a FAR more racially tolerant country than here in Ireland (easily), Britain and most other european countries. When I walk around Melbourne today the vast majority of relationships I see are mixed race, not a large minority, but an actual majority. I see one every 90 seconds or so at least. There are no ethnic 'ghettos' or anything here. People assimilate brilliantly here.

I've only been here for just over 3 weeks, but really impressed with the amount of racial tolerance that Australia seems to have at a first glance, much more so than Ireland. I would regard Australia as easily the most racially tolerant country I've ever been to. Would anyone else here see Australia as a beacon of racial tolerance? Or I am wrong because I've only been to the cities mainly so I'm only judging them (the cities, not towns) and friends I know. Anyone?

Temptamperu

Ask the aboriginies

--Kaiser--

Not sure if serious

Logical Fallacy

They used up all their racism on the Aborigines.

The_Kew_Tour

Australia not racist??:pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:

MrStuffins

Holy Mother!!!

This would be like saying modern day Americans want to keep out immigrants. But of course, that would be silly!

Brendog

I wouldn't say tolerant.

Tolerant means you don't like something and you're just putting up with it.

keano_afc

I always thought the complete opposite to be honest.

Seachmall

It's the land of convicts, of course there's loads of foreigners.

JustinDee

No, it isn't.
Then again, where is?
As for areas in Melbourne where certain ethnics live, try Moreland for Lebanese and Northcote or Malvern for Greeks.

dan1895

Would have said its one of the most racist countries tbh

electrobanana

Your having a laugh?
Aussies are some of the most racist people iv ever met in my life

PirateShampoo

Hahahaha yeah...


Unless your black.

bohsfan

You can't really judge a whole country one the basis of one city. Especially a city which would be know as being the most bohemian of all Australian cities.

I found a world of difference between the attitudes of cities such as Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane and smaller towns / country areas.

MrStuffins

PirateShampoo wrote: »

Hahahaha yeah...


Unless your black.

MY black?

Isn't that illegal? :pac:

Lighter

I thought by the title you meant that aussies tolerate racists, as it's probably the most racist developed country in the world.

latenia

Australians are the most bigotted, small-minded, willfully ignorant people on the planet.

delta_bravo

Take a trip to one of their immigration detention centres and you won't have the same opinion

mikemac1

When your ancestors were sheep stealers and criminals you're not realy in a position to look down on others

TwoShedsJackson

Gnobe wrote: »

Anyone?

No-one.

micropig

Visit outback Queensland, They're very Tolerant there!

DoesNotCompute

Is Australia By Far The Most Racialy Tolerant Country In The World??

No. There is increasingly anti-Irish sentiment there given the high levels of Irish fecking off over there for work.

podgemonster

When travelling across Europe from Scotland to Rome, I met a lot of Aussies. Each one I met was more rude and ignorant than the last. Any story I told, they had a better one. Everything you said was challenged as they knew better. I got alot of info on how Aussie Rules is so much better than GAA etc... I found they were the type who will talk AT you but never actually listen to you. A vain, ego fueled, loudmouth attitude cloaked as free spirited. They may not be racist, they are just wánkers.

Of course those are just the 20-30 aussie I met, I'm sure alot of them are lovely.

careymary

JustinDee wrote: »

As for areas in Melbourne where certain ethnics live, try Moreland for Lebanese and Northcote or Malvern for Greeks.

St Kilda for the Irish

stevenmu

As a tourist you get a very different picture of people than you do when you live with them. I know quite a few people who've lived and worked there, who say the australians hated the irish and treated them like sh*t.

davet82

racists everywhere, no more or no less than anywhere else i suspect

adamski8

Unless your indian also, I remember this being in world news alot the last few years http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_against_Indians_in_Australia_controversy

biko

Cutest forder ever!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivkw27k9J0c

jimmycrackcorm

You have to be naturally tolerant to drink Fosters.

gosuckonalemon

Gnobe wrote: »

Does anyone think Australia is amongst the most racially tolerant countries in the world?? If not the most racially tolerant??

I'm in Australia now, on holiday and I think what most people don't appreciate about Australia is just how diverse its become. The amount of Asian immigrants into the country proves this. I walk around Melbourne here today and I'm amazed at the amount of racial mixing that goes on. Most people seem to think of Australia as some backward white racist country. Infact most people speak of Australia on these forums as quite racist. But I find that stereotype not true at all.

I would say its a FAR more racially tolerant country than here in Ireland (easily), Britain and most other european countries. When I walk around Melbourne today the vast majority of relationships I see are mixed race, not a large minority, but an actual majority. I see one every 90 seconds or so at least. There are no ethnic 'ghettos' or anything here. People assimilate brilliantly here.

I've only been here for just over 3 weeks, but really impressed with the amount of racial tolerance that Australia seems to have at a first glance, much more so than Ireland. I would regard Australia as easily the most racially tolerant country I've ever been to. Would anyone else here see Australia as a beacon of racial tolerance? Or I am wrong because I've only been to the cities mainly so I'm only judging them (the cities, not towns) and friends I know. Anyone?

Are you a troll or just a little simple or what's the story?

Australia is one of the most racist nations in the world. Along with being one of the most ignorant and uncultured.

BTW you said raciall/y tolerant/tolerance SIX TIMES there, SIX!

SEPT 23 1989

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCHY6n907OE

John Doe1

the country that only allowed non-white people into the country until recently?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_policy

biko

How can you ask "Is Australia By Far The Most Racialy Tolerant Country In The World??" when you've only been to Melbourne?

It's like when tourists go "I've been in Dublin 2 weeks now, Ireland isn't what I thought it would be". wtf?

Major cities are generally more tolerant because there are more people and the people are usually from somewhere else, so tolerant by definition.

Go into the outback, I did for weeks and out there racism is still common, mostly against Aboriginals. It's a different world out there.


Oz is an awesome place and I hope you have a great time but tbh it's the same as other places imo, and I've been to lots of countries.

Brussels Sprout

OP making those comments after only experiencing Melbourne would be like only visiting San Francisco and saying that America is a very tolerant country toward homosexuals. Here's a story from the two days that I spent in Darwin:

I was eating at a pizzeria at an outside table adjacent to the street. My pizza had just been served and at that moment an old aborigine man walking along the footpath noticed and approached me. He had a long tangled grey beard, he wasn't wearing a shirt and he was barefoot. It was hard to put an age on him but he could have been anywhere from 40-60.

So anyway he pointed at my pizza and made a gesture toward his mouth. I accompanied this with some mumbled words that I couldn't distinguish. Clearly he wanted some food so I gave him one of the 4 slices. He then pointed toward a second slice but I told him that I wasn't going to give him half my pizza.

Now sitting behind me at a nearby table were two young white couples. They were all dressed in business attire and looked like they'd just finished work in one of the offices. After witnessing my exchange with the old man one of them loudly remarked, so that everyone could hear "They should put a sign up. Don't feed the monkeys!". To which the two girls and the other guy all broke out in hysterics.

I suggest heading to the Northern Territory and Northern Queensland before talking about how open the Australians are to other races.

gosuckonalemon

The OP has his location listed as "Omagh". That fact, combined with the fact that it's probably his first time to step foot out of there, would make Nazi Germany racially tolerant in his eyes..

al28283

Gnobe wrote: »

I've only been here for just over 3 weeks

:rolleyes: Australia can be fierce racist, as much as anywhere else

Xavi6

DoesNotCompute wrote: »

No. There is increasingly anti-Irish sentiment there given the high levels of Irish fecking off over there for work.

Is there? I must've missed the memo cause I ain't been gettin no hatin

John Doe1

gosuckonalemon wrote: »

The OP has his location listed as "Omagh". That fact, combined with the fact that it's probably his first time to step foot out of there, would make Nazi Germany racially tolerant in his eyes..

Whats wrong with omagh?

gosuckonalemon

John Doe1 wrote: »

Whats wrong with omagh?

It's in Northern Ireland.

m83

Jesus Christ OP you really don't have a clue. Take a trip outside the cities and you'll find it to be amongst the most racist countries of them all. I spent two years there and some of the attitudes I encountered from white Australians made me sick to my stomach.

V_Moth

Australia - A Melting Pot of Friendship!

DEFTLEFTHAND

I got some particularly vitriolic anti Irish abuse during my trip to Aus, I also met some really wonderful people as well to be fair.

I could see though where some of the renewed anti Irish sentiment is stemming from as I witnessed some appalling behaviour from certain Irish immigrants while I was there, Drunken madness and violence, destruction of others peoples property etc.

When applying for a door to door sales job the guy I rang to enquire told me that he was done with hiring Irish as he had had nothing but trouble and unreliability from those he'd previously hired. Its a shame that there is a certain breed of thick Yobo out there giving us all a bad name.

Seomra Mushie

Gnobe wrote: »

I would say its a FAR more racially tolerant country than here in Ireland (easily),

No. Just no. I've known a few Australians who were pretty openly and unashamedly racist. Young urbanites they were too.

Aboriginals were classified under the Flora and Fauna Act until only 40 odd years ago. :-/

MrStuffins

Well OP, this thread went well!

Ellis Dee

biko wrote: »

How can you ask "Is Australia By Far The Most Racialy Tolerant Country In The World??" when you've only been to Melbourne?

It's like when tourists go "I've been in Dublin 2 weeks now, Ireland isn't what I thought it would be". wtf?

And given that he's calling Australia the most racially tolerant country in the whole world - based on a few days or weeks on holiday there - one has to ask how many other countries he's visited for purposes of comparison. Sweden? Switzerland? Canada? New Zealand (where they haven't been nearly as good at wiping out the autochtones as the Australians and Auckland is as racially mixed as a lot of cities I have seen)? India? Norway? :rolleyes:

My daughter recently visited Australia, by the way, and commented that it was "A bit like the USA, but with less culture".

sheils

Well I spent two years there in Sydney and have been called " a Irish B****h " Have been stared at and had very loud comments made when having lunch with my friend who happens to be black.
Have heard more than anyones share of jokes along the line of the monkey one mentioned above. Random gay bashing.
Tolerant I think not never have I meet such a group of racist homophobic narrow minded people in all my life and i am from a village in rural Ireland.

gc1971

keano_afc wrote: »

I always thought the complete opposite to be honest.

Me too. Worked with some people in Queensland who were so racist it was unbelievable. I actually discussed it at length one night with a girl who was travelling alone from South Korea and she was shocked at the attitude of many Australians she had met. I also found them to be homophobic.

Seomra Mushie

Xavi6 wrote: »

Is there? I must've missed the memo cause I ain't been gettin no hatin

Somebody is getting laid. A lot.

http://tinyurl.com/7gbcztf

KungPao

Haven't you seen Romper Stomper?

All white Australians are like that.

biko

gc1971 wrote: »

Me too. Worked with some people in Queensland

Effing banana benders

KungPao

gc1971 wrote: »

... I also found them to be homophobic.

I had the pleasure of working with an Australian bloke while living in Brazil. Never stopped joking about "woofters" and "poofs" and stupid stuff like that.

Bit of a dickhead so he was.