... wrote on Jan 26
th, 2012 at 10:11am:
Gist wrote on Jan 26
th, 2012 at 8:27am:
Emma wrote on Jan 25
th, 2012 at 9:59pm:
As for the ( new word coming up!!! ...) prongwad
who keeps asking what race Aussies are >>>
we are not a race - we are a people, ... a group of people from all over the world,... who call Australia HOME.
Might as well ask , wadhead, what race are Americans, ... or Brits.!!
We embrace much more than race or skin colour.!!
So ??? got it now??
mutter mutter mutter mutter.
Correct answer, and so easy, isn't it? And yet both Soren and Romps With Donkey Man were either incapable or unwilling to give it. The closest I got was from Soren who said we are a mix of white races. Being a bigot, he was unwilling or unable to open his eyes to the fact of other races being aussie.
prongwad? Not bad. Shows a bit more thought and imagination than most of my opponents.
If a country, as in the cases of the US and Australia is built by 99% white stock and then 200 years later start letting in people of all shapes and sizes, it doesn't follow that The new additions contributed as much, or are as "american" or "australian" as those who built it over the previous centuries.
So you believe "white stock" was responsible for 99% of the work of settling Australia and America.
How do you think the white stock found their way around a completely alien land? How did they find water, and coves for ships, and importantly, sources of food to top up their flour rations? How did they find their way through the continent? You must have noticed all the Aboriginal place names in Australia - why do you think this is?
And you must believe the convicts were all white stock too. The British Empire covered the globe, and 18th & 19th century London had Africans, Indians, Chinese, Arabs, and yes, white stock. There were a number of African and Asian convicts sent to Australia. I'm not making it up. It's all in the records.
The first thing the officers did upon landing in Sydney was to learn the customs and language of the Eora Aboriginals. Racism had no part in 18th Century England. The ideology of the ruling classes was based on Rousseau. They believed the natives were purer, more innocent, and "nobler" than Europeans. They came to change their minds about this, but that's how they started out.
The most expensive items in early Australia were Aboriginal spears and artefacts, which fetched a fortune back in England - and this was before currency even existed in NSW.
There is no way white stock could have done 99% of the work of settling Australia. We had convicts and blacks. In America, they had things called slaves. Black stock. Ever been to the Carribean or Latin America? Ever wonder why they're so black? Not many whites there, and they're all ex-British and Spanish colonies.
What about North America? Ask Imperium. There's a lot of black stock there. And don't forget, much of the south in the US was once Mexico. Brown stock.
The White Australia Policy was created in 1901. Why do you think they felt the need to put his into place? Ever heard of Kanaks, Indians and Chinese filling up the place and working cheap?
So you're living under a complete delusion if you think we've just started letting the tinted races in, and equally deluded if you think "white stock" shaped 99% of this country. Believe what you want - I know I can't convince you of anything you don't want to believe - but if you ever looked at history, read the accounts, looked at the extensive journals and records, you'd know differently.
The exact opposite of what you say is true.
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