The world becomes a better place when you accept people for being people rather than a stereotypical race.
EDIT Oh and before i go.....If Australians are so proud of being Australian and this is considered the pinnacle of multi cultural integration when are they gonna vote to be Independent.
LOL
Most countries have a civil war, unrest mass killings in order to gain independence.
Australia put it to the vote and say um er nah we like being part of the UK.
God save the queen eh?
Even Arnotts changed the name of their Golliwog biscuits to Scallywags, but they still look like Golliwogs to me.
A gift store located in Jervis Bay, NSW, actually sell Golliwogs.
We still have coon cheese tho - so redknecks everywhere can relax with very ordinary cheese platters.
There also used to be cigarette styled lollies called Phags (had to change the spelling due to SB filtering but it was actually with an 'F') complete with red burning looking end sold to kids.
Yeh, really smart.
Times change and we climbed down from the trees and all bought spunky plasma screens. Fek orf back up the tree and throw your tuurds around if you prefer the old ways.![]()
Suprised no-one has suggested that it's all part of the way Muslims/Asians/anyone who isn't lilly white with leaning for white power, are taking over this country.. give it an hour or so. ![]()
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This is the internet. You can not possibly expect someone to google the book name, find out which local library stocks it and then actually leave the house and drive down the road to get it!
Iview had all three episodes of "Guns, germs and steel". But only the 2nd and 3rd are still available to watch.
It can be watched in chunks on youtube
In a nutshell it is: "A short history about everyone for the last 13,000 years"
you are all wrong....our first settlers, before the sun burnt ones, way before,
came here across the land bridge of what we call New Guinea, [on landyachts [}:)] they were descendants of the Nordics and Chinese
Glad to see this is all staying on track! ![]()
Thought this relevent... ![]()
The Blind Men and the Elephant (by John Godfrey Saxe)
It was six men of Indostan
To learning much inclined,
Who went to see the Elephant
(Though all of them were blind),
That each by observation
Might satisfy his mind
The First approached the Elephant,
And happening to fall
Against his broad and sturdy side,
At once began to bawl:
“God bless me! but the Elephant
Is very like a wall!”
The Second, feeling of the tusk,
Cried, “Ho! what have we here
So very round and smooth and sharp?
To me ’tis mighty clear
This wonder of an Elephant
Is very like a spear!”
The Third approached the animal,
And happening to take
The squirming trunk within his hands,
Thus boldly up and spake:
“I see,” quoth he, “the Elephant
Is very like a snake!”
The Fourth reached out an eager hand,
And felt about the knee.
“What most this wondrous beast is like
Is mighty plain,” quoth he;
“Tis clear enough the Elephant
Is very like a tree!”
The Fifth, who chanced to touch the ear,
Said: “E’en the blindest man
Can tell what this resembles most;
Deny the fact who can
This marvel of an Elephant
Is very like a fan!”
The Sixth no sooner had begun
About the beast to grope,
Than, seizing on the swinging tail
That fell within his scope,
“I see,” quoth he, “the Elephant
Is very like a rope!”
And so these men of Indostan
Disputed loud and long,
Each in his own opinion
Exceeding stiff and strong,
Though each was partly in the right,
And all were in the wrong!
Moral:
So oft in theologic wars,
The disputants, I ween,
Rail on in utter ignorance
Of what each other mean,
And prate about an Elephant
Not one of them has seen!
^^^ Loz...from now on...stay away from that microwave unless you're wearing your foil cap! ![]()
Or perhaps better advice...DON'T INHALE! ![]()
So just suppose that later in life, after school, I would like to approach an Australian Aboriginal man or woman in a couteous or respectful way.
It shocked me that I had no idea.
Realising this massive hole in my education and upbringing, I managed to opt in to a couple Aboriginal perspective units during tertiary education.
I can honestly say I felt like a retard when after 25 years of schooling and living in Australia I learnt that Aboriginal people would prefer to be asked what part of Australia they come from and for you to respond with what part of Australia you are from.
That was in the first 2 minutes of the first tutorial.