Beautiful wonderful country Australia is. Nice beaches, great weather, beautiful nature. Shame the aboriginals were not able to hold on to it. But since the native people of the land, who've lived there for thousands of years are so small in number and the land is so large and bounteous no one race should be able to claim it as their own. The white people on this forum are always angry about the aboriginals, the Asians, the Muslims, the blacks and just about everything that isn't "Anglo". Hate to break it to you guys, but you've been here only since 1850.... Not an awfully long time. You built the country you say? Thanks. But we're moving to Australia in large numbers, were going to take citizenship, we're going to live our lives happily in the wonderful land downunder and we're going to sponsor our family members and they are going to sponsor theirs. Our numbers will grow, and we they do we'll elect ourselves into government and make this a nice country that belongs to all who land on its shores.

Thanks British settlers for making such a nice country! Thanks aboriginals for your land. Thanks God for creating Australia. And when I'm able to leave this third world country, the "United States" I'll be a nice Aussie! Yay!

Love us or hate us, you're going to get used to us. We're here to stay, never to leave. Australia belongs to us, this great land. Now excuse me, I have to go apply for immigration. When I come to OZ, I'll stay for a while and get my citizenship and then work as an anti-racism activist.

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Hmm, my family has been here since 1788.

Australia belongs to 'who' exactly. And 'anti-racism' activist? For Australia? If you want learn about racism, go to Saudi Arabia, where Arabic muslims treat their Indonesian and Philippino maids like slaves. Or in Japan, where foreigners have no rights. Or China, where the same applies.

There is not much racism in Australia, what there is instead, is anyone of particular 'protected classes' using racism as a general purpose excuse for any problem that they might have. That way, they never need to work or try at anything themselves, because it's always the white guy's fault.

We have enough bleeding heart liberals. Work at 'racism' where there is racism. Here there is only pseudo-racism that is thrown around like a political football.

Welcome BlackAmerica. Hope to hear more from you.

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Some are, some aren't. If you persist you'll be able to make a better judgement.

Of course, your introduction to this forum does beg the question.."So you've fixed everything in America then?"

Like I said look forward to hearing more from you and BTW, I think Black is beautiful.

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What do you think this country would look like now if they were able to? Without the insidious influence of the white man the aboriginals would probably have been able to prosper economically in industrial civilization! They would have created cities with streets lined with gold, spun off nobel prize winners as if they were pages on a paper reel and built feats of architectural and engineering wonder that would have scraped the very surface of the sky. Oh how things could have been!

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Really presumptuous of you. We're not "angry" at anything-- at least I'm not. Why are those who choose to hold differing (and perhaps more realistic) views of human civilizations and group dynamics always tarred and feathered as "angry" people?

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Oh, your numbers will grow and basically you'll do to us what we did to the aboriginals. At least you can admit, or at least, insinuate, that this is how human groups behave to other human groups. Unless of course,  you really are under the mistaken and silly notion that your people, if allowed to grow into significant enough numbers to truly effect the ballot box, will simply want to continue the status quo of "multiculturalism and tolerance" that they prattle on about now.  They won't. If allowed, any group will attempt to assert its dominance over another group in a particular land, regardless of whether or not this land is their "homeland". All groups of people, and this isn't vilification, behave in this particular fashion. It doesn't mean that they're evil. It doesn't mean that I'm "angry" for thinking this. Its just a fact so eminently easy to understand (and given the annals of history this is perfectly normal),  I can't possibly see how anybody can disagree.

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Well for now. When or if your people grow large enough to actually be a significant threat to the "native" (and indeed, the aboriginal people as well; they certainly don't want more economic competition over the table scraps of industrial civilization) people of this land, i.e there won't be any more gated suburban enclaves to retreat to, their attitudes will quickly lapse back into the so called "racialism" of the not so distant past.

Just remember. When you're a "novelty" diversity isn't problematic; it's actually quite fun (at least for the middle and upper middle classes). When a China Town or an Africa Town becomes an Africa City or an Africa Province, people jettison their insincere adulation for "diversity" fairly quickly.

Calanen wrote on Jul 8^th, 2009 at 8:26am:


1850 , 1788 same thing. They're both relatively recent, so you really don't have more claim on Australia then say a Vietnamese family who moved there in 2009. Saudi racism is not as bad as Australian racism. Some families to mistreat their maids, but the majority of maids are considered members of the Arab family and are treated with dignity and respect. In China and Japan, both governments are remedying their "racism" problem. In fact, China even has an affirmative action program for its ethnic minorities.

Also, stop always dismissing the racism in Australia has being the rumbling of some disgruntled minority. When an entire suburb erupts into a race riot, and people who are even a bit darker then that average Anglo are attacked...That is most certainly racism. In America racial rallies haven't been violent in decades, and the ones happening in 2009 have like 10 people surrounded by 5,000 counter demonstrators. People of color are attacked in Australia, discriminated against at employment (look up the studies), denied equal protection under the law, etc. Simply put, Australia is the most racist nation in the Western world. And we shall change that!

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It's not your business to judge how the country would have turned out. Are you suggesting Aboriginals are not just as intelligent as anyone else? It matters not how bad or good Australia would have turned out, it was their land and they have a right to it. And yes you people are angry. You're angry because you think this land belongs to you, and no one else should immigrate. Especially not people of color. Well its not, and we're moving here in large numbers. You fear our numbers because you think we'll destroy you like you did the Aboriginals. Well, we're not. We'll give you more respect then you ever did the native people of Australia.

Coral Sea wrote on Jul 8^th, 2009 at 12:08pm:


That's because of economics not race.   Are you sure you're not from Mississippi?