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Re: What the HELL is wrong with people.
04/17/13 01:48 AM
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> I do love your country. Aussies rock! The closest thing you can get to the US.
I still don't feel that Australia is my country. It's a country I've lived in for decades, and there are definitely awesome people here, but there are so many fucking arseholes. I still get told, "go back to your own country, we don't want you here," by random strangers on the street occasionally when I'm just going about my business. I don't have to open my mouth or anything to provoke it, just walking down the street and I'm unwanted. Last year, two French women were singing on a bus, and a bunch of Aussies started threatening them, telling them they weren't wanted, and that they'd "cut their tits off" when they got off the bus. People who stood up for the French women got threatened. It got media attention that time because someone uploaded it to YouTube, but there are large areas of Melbourne where this kind of attitude is the norm. There are people who go "curry bashing" - looking for Indian international students to mug because they think they're wealthy easy targets. A Chinese guy was beaten almost to death about 2.5km from my Melbourne apartment just for being Chinese last year. The local police are now being investigated for unfairly targeting African men when statistically they aren't any more likely to commit crimes than anyone else in Flemington. It's a really prejudiced, angry country underneath the surface.
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