From: "Iris Lavell" <ilavell-AT-central.murdoch.edu.au>
Subject: Re: how racism operates
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 18:48:01 +0800


Hear, hear!
Iris
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From: saeed urrehman <saeed.urrehman-AT-anu.edu.au>
To: <postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 8:49 AM
Subject: how racism operates


> 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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