Subject: how racism operates
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 11:49:55 +1100


Recently Australia has seen many bushfires which have damaged property,
forests and caused enormous pollution. Most of these fires are lit by
Australian arsonists. But the media does not stereotype the Australians as
arsonists. America is not worried about what Australians, who have recently
demonstrated their ability to cause damage to forests and property, will do
to American national parks. There is no stopping of all these fire-loving
"mates" and "blokes" of "Australian descent" at the airports. Nobody has
tried to link the fires with the violent imagery of the Revelations in the
Bible, the book that many Australian Christians read. Nothing like that.
These fires are just being seen as just accidents which have nothing to do
with the nature of Australians as determined by their participation in the
Western/Caucausian civilisation.

I am not suggesting that Australian people should be subjected to these
stereotypes but that Arabian and Afghani people also deserve similar absence
of stereotypical thinking. If one Muslim commits any crime, it should not be
plastered over the whole Islamic civilisation.

Just wondering,

saeed



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