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[Kurtz]

No no, you're right, Australia IS a racist county. Come walk through the streets of Sydney and Melbourne and you'll see Asians too scared to walk out of their own houses, houses that are surrounded by Australia's best schools which are full of Asian studnets....umm, well......well they ARE scared as they ARE in fact the minority in any major city....well, I'll get back to you one that one. The last Mayor of Melbourne was...oh, what was his name...John Smith?.....No, John So from Hong Kong, that's right, who apart from hardly being able to speak English held that position for 7 years, voted in by such racist Aussies. You'll see that of the next 100,000 immigrants that land on racist Australia 100% will be white...umm, well maybe there will be SOME Chinese, Koreans, Japanse, Vietnamese, Indians.....all obviously aware of the shocking racism that they will receive, who were in fact warned not to come by the already present multitude of Asians already present and doing rather well..........or, you can listen to a few Dave's posters waxing lyrical about "what they heard"........

[Steelrails]

Completely anecdotal, but a Taiwanese-American friend of mine visited Sydney once, loved it, and two months later quit his job and moved to Australia, vowing to live the rest of his life there.

Sounds like a vote for Australia.

[northway]

[Skipperoo]

Sydney and Melbourne are very cosmopolitan cities (particularly the latter), but venturing up north is like taking a slippy slide down the IQ bell-curve. I spent a few weeks in Cairns (what backpacker doesn't?) and the amount of racism bandied about completely casually by the locals was horrific.

[recessiontime]

I moved to Australia from Canada more than a year a go. Yes this place is racist but so is Canada the only difference is that it is more open while in Canada it's subtle and behind closed doors. There are a heck of a lot of rednecks here, as the culture of the bogans is quite popular even amongst teenagers who sport mullets. Sure, Australia has it's problems but I'll gladly live with those problems than the ones Canada has.

The new immigration policy in Australia is pretty ridiculous now and I think this will seriously curb the amount of non-whites coming here. I myself barely got a PR and the way I did it was by getting employer sponsorship which is not the conventional way it is usually done. All the Asian people I know have been devestated by the new immigration policies that have made it extremely difficult to come here.

[Kurtz]

[blm]

I knew someone who was genuinely interested in doing a tooth making course but couldn't get in because it was full of fee paying students.

I was puzzled by this but he says tooth making is very popular because it can get you permanent residence. Poor guy was one of the few that actually wanted to do it as a profession.

Anyway they recently took it off the list that leads to permanent residence and the decline in interest was such that the local university no longer offers the course.

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[dyc]

[recessiontime]

[dyc]

[recessiontime]

red herring. I'm saying that racism exists in Canada as it does exist in Austrlia and it's just as bad but in a different form. A recent study showed that people with Asian surnames were 50% less likely to a call back from employers. It's also pretty commonplace for employers to ask immigrant professional if they have any "Canadian experience" so they can screen them out of employment subtly without looking like racists. This is the face of racism in Canada. It's behind closed doors, swept under the rug and you don't hear about it but it exists whether that makes you feel comfortable or not. With Australia, we see racism in the form of the bashing of Indian students and while this may be more sensational, it's just as bad as the discrimination there is in Canada.

[fadedgirl]

back to the OP
in Korea, I get African and Mexican...I guess because I've got an olive skin tone

in the States, I get "Hola" or "Where are you from? No, I mean originally...no I mean where are your parents from?"
Apparently saying I'm American is not acceptable.