coolian2
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Time to go read...
Ax, Ian, Khan, Ashley and Brit the future President/broadcaster, have a good rest of the evening!
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Time to go read...
Ax, Ian, Khan, Ashley and Brit the future President/broadcaster, have a good rest of the evening!
night mikeTime to go read...
Ax, Ian, Khan, Ashley and Brit the future President/broadcaster, have a good rest of the evening!
well with a story like that, it makes it sound more like it's meIt's your friends. One of my friends has had my Father Ted DVDs and my ZooTV DVD for nearly a year and i'm not worried at all.
Time to go read...
Ax, Ian, Khan, Ashley and Brit the future President/broadcaster, have a good rest of the evening!
I'm sure the thread will be a rousing failure
It's the beauty of having a whole desert to hide them in.
well with a story like that, it makes it sound more like it's me
Yep. And if they dare set up a Tent Embassy in Canberra, hound the fuckers! How dare they enter our pure white cities and drag down the tone of the place!
that's horrible. i never thought i'd say this, but compared to australia, it sounds like we've treated native americans better than aborigines have been treated! that's not saying much since we've pushed them onto reservations and forced them across the country and killed anyone who refused to move, but at least they were counted in the census!Fuckin' cattle and sheep were viewed as more important than the Aborigines!
As much as John Howard would like to present this place as the "lucky country" and blast anybody who says otherwise as having a "black armband" view of history (you have no idea how mad that label makes me), Australia has one of the most sordid and disgusting histories of any Western country. For the last 200 years, this has been anything but the lucky country for its own bloody native inhabitants.
Our treatment of the indigenous people is probably the main reason I'm not proud to be an Australian.
The general opinion was that they weren't even human, even at the beginning of the 20th century. And still, today - even with all that 'sorry' bullshit, even with more aboriginal players in sports than ever before, even with Peter Garret, even with massive Aboriginal flags flying with Australian ones everywhere in major cities, even with all that - almost every aboriginal person you see today has been ruined by drugs and alcohol, from racism, there is still so much racism towards them by the general white population, even from more recent immigrants. People don't think they have a culture. Even though it's possible that the earliest written language actually occurred somewhere in QLD, but we'll ignore that...
i was reading about that the other day, actually.almost every aboriginal person you see today has been ruined by drugs and alcohol, from racism, there is still so much racism towards them by the general white population, even from more recent immigrants.
Our treatment of the indigenous people is probably the main reason I'm not proud to be an Australian.
fuck! and season two is awesome!Khan, a mate has had my season 2 of AD for well over a year as well. I've been pissed off about that for a while. Not a day goes by without me wanting to watch the Steve Holt is a Bastard bit in Immaculate Election!
that's horrible. i never thought i'd say this, but compared to australia, it sounds like we've treated native americans better than aborigines have been treated! that's not saying much since we've pushed them onto reservations and forced them across the country and killed anyone who refused to move, but at least they were counted in the census!
:books plane ticket:
Go on. You'll like it.
Our treatment of the indigenous people is probably the main reason I'm not proud to be an Australian.
The general opinion was that they weren't even human, even at the beginning of the 20th century. And still, today - even with all that 'sorry' bullshit, even with more aboriginal players in sports than ever before, even with Peter Garret, even with massive Aboriginal flags flying with Australian ones everywhere in major cities, even with all that - almost every aboriginal person you see today has been ruined by drugs and alcohol, from racism, there is still so much racism towards them by the general white population, even from more recent immigrants. People don't think they have a culture. Even though it's possible that the earliest written language actually occurred somewhere in QLD, but we'll ignore that...
oh yeah, i agree. but i mean still, to say a whole race of people just "don't count" - that's horrible. the closest thing i could say we had like that here was the ridiculous 3/5ths rule back during slavery.I think that, despite being two indigenous people that were fucked over the white man, the situations with aboriginal Australians and Native Americans have their differences. For one thing, we didn't turn the aboriginals into football mascots and cigarette logos.
I think that, despite being two indigenous people that were fucked over the white man, the situations with aboriginal Australians and Native Americans have their differences. For one thing, we didn't turn the aboriginals into football mascots and cigarette logos.
I think that, despite being two indigenous people that were fucked over the white man, the situations with aboriginal Australians and Native Americans have their differences. For one thing, we didn't turn the aboriginals into football mascots and cigarette logos.
Go on. You'll like it.
I think it's telling that if you live in any major Australian centre, seeing an Aborigine is a curiosity and something memorable. I've seen more people from Africa this year than Aborigines. The marginalisation is beyond nauseating. The sooner this country actually acknowledges it has a massive racism problem, one of the worst on the planet, the sooner we might actually get somewhere and improve the lot of a people whose culture and history makes European culture and history sometimes seem pretty piss-weak in comparison.
WIN.
Though if I may say so:
Maybe being only 50% native American gives me no right to say anything, but the mascot factor doesn't REALLY offend me. Maybe a little bit, but no where near as much as the fact taht Andrew Jackson is on the $20. That is an atrocity to all the horrors Native Americans suffered at his hands
seriously. up until dubya, i thought jackson was the worst president this nation has had.Maybe a little bit, but no where near as much as the fact taht Andrew Jackson is on the $20. That is an atrocity to all the horrors Native Americans suffered at his hands
I should stay quiet considering the name and logo of my favourite sports team, but i might as well say that it's always been used with the blessing of Maori (apart from when it was cursed) and there are people who understand the logo and it's representation.
It's not godawful cheesy like the Cleveland Indians.