On a warm November’s day in 2012, three young French girls hop on a bus in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. They sit at the front of the bus and start quietly singing a French song., when next second a man of about the age of 40, holding a pram, and a young women in about her 20’s charge down the bus and start verbally abusing them telling them “you should kill yourselves. Get out of Australia, and go back to ya home country, you don’t belong here. You're French you don’t deserve to sit at the front of the bus, go to the back behind everyone”. No on stood up to help the young girls, one teenage boy filmed it and not even the bus driver stopped to help.
No one was charged over the incident which caused a lot of controversy between the Australians and its migrants. A lot of Australians believe that racism doesn’t exist in Australian society anymore, when in fact it does. There's racism everywhere; work offices, school yards, shopping centres even at home in some degree. Racism isn’t just the discrimination because of someone's colour. It can be because of someone's age, gender, ...
This case in particular is very important to all Canadians everywhere because it demonstrated the possibility of racial discrimination to occur till this very day. Even though the Crown was not able to clearly declare whether the people from Roma was what the Neo-Nazis were referring to as “Gypsies”. Also this case provides that even though there was only an accusation towards the Neo-Nazis because of the wilful promotion, the government will take matters into consideration and arrest the people who are suspected of taking part in this situation. In addition, it shows how the government will not tolerate any sort of discrimination or racism against any identifiable and/or minority group.
December 11th is not a date many Australians want to remember. But why? Because Australians don't condone racism or because they don't accept it is a great part of their society and history?
In Australia the Aboriginals face discrimination daily. The film opened with four young Aboriginal girls singing on a makeshift stage facing their community. When the camera panned to show the smiling faces in the crowd it gave a feel of unity and love. Later it showed two sisters who were trying to hitch a ride into the city from the main road. Yet every vehicle passed them by; once they saw who they were, frustrated the older sister. Gale stated it was because they ‘were black’. When in the town playing their song on the stage in a bar, the youngest sister turned up and took
The Cronulla Riots ‘ that day that shocked the nation’ occurred on December 11, 2005 in Sydney’s South on Cronulla beach. (Cronulla Riots: The Day that Shocked the Nation, 2016) A violent, wild crowd of 5,000 ‘white’ Anglo-Celtic local Australians fuelled by alcohol, targeted men of ‘middle eastern appearance’ in areas around Cronulla beach, the local shops and the railway station, by brutally beating them. As a result of this a storm erupted between members of a dominant ethic group against a minority group. (Poynting, 2006) The after math of the riots has ultimately resulted in surf life saving authorities bringing in a more culturally inclusive environment and incorporating different ethnic groups within surf life saving guidelines. How did the riots start between white Australian and Lebanese Australians? What was the history behind it? How could surf lifesavers make the beach more culturally and racially inclusive?
Over the years Australia has had many different problems with racism and racism affecting peoples’ lives. Many racial groups have been affected, most significantly the Aboriginals. The end of world war two in 1945 marked a huge change in types of racism. Australia went from the ‘superior’ white Australians dominating over immigrants and aboriginals. To a relatively multicultural and accepting society that is present today.
Living in a multicultural Australian community in the nineties where the enforcement of opposing cultures, beliefs and opinions is expected and the pressures of expectations are abundant would not be easy. This is especially obvious if the ‘victim’ is emotionally unhinged (or at least slightly ajar) and looking for stability through constants, including their heritage and who they actually are.
Individual Racism- the belief that one’s own race is superior to another (racial prejudice) and behavior that suppresses members of the so called inferior race (racial discrimination). An example of individual racism in the scenario is Ms. Welch's description of how Native Indian children were taken from their communities and placed in schools away from their families. This was done in with the belief by the White European culture was superior and the desire to drive out the Native Indian traditions in future generations.
When things have commenced are they able to come to a halt? Many people in this world wonder
When the students were at Walgett, they stood in front of the Returned Services League (RSL Club) and demonstrated against racial discrimination that they had practised. The SAFA not only demonstrated their practices of racial discrimination against Aboriginal people, but ensured that they got extensive media coverage so that the whole of Australia can see what is going in these rural country towns of western New South Wales, hence raising awareness amongst people in Australia. At the time, the media had gone crazy with all of the headlines regarding the Aboriginal discrimination in western NSW. It had exposed an endemic racism in Australia at that time. After all the terrible things that have been done against Aboriginal people, the news coverage had also said, with ignorance, that racism did not exist in
Dating back to the beginning of times people have always been looked at different depending on the color of their skin or what your religion, race, or beliefs may be. It is in our human nature to not like people for certain things that they are. Many will argue that in this day in age we are no longer at a race war but how can you be so sure when you actually open your eyes and see reality. Rapper Kanye West once said “racism is still alive, they just be concealing it” and these words are everything but false. You must ask yourself the real question about racism and it is how could you ever cure such a thing in people’s minds? People are free to think and believe what ever they would like and old habits such as racism will never change in people.
presents itself in a more discrete way than racism in other countries. Racism in other countries goes further than just having a bias towards races. In other countries racism denies the people of certain races privileges that everyone should have access to, as well as creates a prejudice that leads to minority groups to be treated badly. An example of this can be found in the video “Understanding Systematic Oppression and Institutionalized Racism” by Kyol Blakeney from TedxYouth in Sydney. In his Ted talk Kyol Blakeney compares the chance of an African American in the U.S to end up in jail to an Aboriginal Australian to end up in jail and found that an Aboriginal Australian is 14 times more likely to end up in jail. This example shows that the institutionalized racism in Australia is so present that it affects minority groups like that aboriginal Australian which make up 2.7 % of the population on a huge scale. The fact that racism in the form of an institution which stems from racial bias affects minority groups not just in the U.S. but also cross-culturally in other
After the release of Rabbit Proof Fence, many `politically right' white Australians tried to promote that the film was based on myth and misunderstanding but in facet is not as the film itself promotes the openness of racism. Racism was not only a problem is Australia but throughout the world and is continuing to stay a problem, even in our own backyard. The racism between the white Australians and the Aborigines is quite similar to the racism shown in schools and even in parliament here in New Zealand between the Maori and Europeans, or once again between the `white' and the `black'.
...saying through their actions to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, that causing the death of a human being wasn’t a crime. All of this happened because of a police officer’s discretionary decision, which further illustrates that discretionary decisions harm the interests of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The last point that this essay raised was one that has been valid for over two hundred years. The attitudes of the state towards aboriginal people is reflected in discretionary decisions made by police officers and will continue to be the case until those in power stop trying to do the popular thing and start trying to do the right thing. When all of the evidence is weighed and considered, there can be little doubt that discretionary decisions made by police officers harm the interests of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander peoples.
Racism as a Common Problem in the 21st Century Racism has been a problem since the very first day that two men of different races met in the past. Racism is defined as belief in the superiority of one race over all others. Often racism is a belief that one type of person has better physical attributes, or is more. intelligent. The snares are a lot of fun.
As a reporter states at the beginning of the report a 17 year old aboriginal boy was killed by police officers as said but the case was seen as a sort of an accident. The local out rage by the aboriginal community was devastating; the pub was attacked with steel rods used for the local railway, then looted and futher more distroyed.