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RE: On Being Nice: how racism thrives in the polite society of rural Australia
Thank you for writing this article@onethousandwords, I spend three years in Australia and found it very racist. It really made me very anger how settled Australians talked about the natives there, so much hatred and disrespect. And how they are treated. Native Australia people or Aboriginals have been persecuted for so long and their is still a huge divide.
I got involved in some activism over there. Check out Stand up for the Burrup for a start, it is a group protecting very ancient rock art from being destroyed by mining companies. There are many more though.There are of course good people over there too, but just much fewer unfortunately. Resteemed.
Thank you for posting such an honest comment. It is so important to talk about this. There are good people here yes but our societal way means we don't speak up and people who say these things don't get pulled up. Which is what I noticed when I was travelling the Outback. There was a lot of racism, I was shocked at how much. But there was so much silence.
I went to a cultural awareness course once and the woman that ran it was amazing. At the end she asked us to start speaking up. She said (not a direct quote) "we've been doing this for over 200 years. We need you. We're tired."
White Australian's need to speak up when we hear it and let each other know it is unacceptable.
Thats so true, native Australians have such an amazing culture and deserve alot of respect for how they have lived in harmony with nature, I realize that that has been disrupted now, what a shame when they have so much they can teach us.
That is one of the things that kept occurring to me as I traveled the region. That it is such terrible shame that white settlers did not see how well the land was cared for and see if they could learn a thing or two.