" ...
The very day before, two more Indians were bashed in Swanston St.
Their attackers? Once more it was - allegedly - an ethnic gang. An Asian one,
in fact, or so police allege.
...
The fact is many of the attacks on Indians in Melbourne seem to have been
carried out by members of recently arrived racial minorities, whether African,
Middle Eastern, Maori, Pacific Islander or Asian. In one three-month period,
for instance, all 12 attacks on (mostly Indian) taxi drivers in the Flemington
and Moonee Ponds area were by Africans. Our media and police have been very
reluctant to admit such things, as usual. In fact, then chief commissioner
Christine Nixon even banned the word "gang" and claimed - falsely - that
Sudanese and Somali refugees here did not have high crime rates.
Needing scapegoats, though, Anglo racism has been singled out for blame
instead, since it's well accepted that only whites may be racist. "
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/racism-is-here-in-many-guises/story-e6frfhqf-1225824479463
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/tennis-thugs-must-get-a-dinky-di-serve/story-e6frfhqf-1225822888317
One should understand that:
Melbourne consists of people from all nations in Europe + all nations in Asia
(except perhaps oil-rich Arab countries) + all nations that comprise the
Pacific islands + most nations of Africa + most nations of South America.
Indians in India who have never been to Melbourne just cannot comprehend the
wide racial mix that Melbourne has become. Besides, many Indian-looking people
may be Greek (yes, one of my Greek managers is darker than I am), Sri-Lankan
and even Fijian Indians, and we have all lived in harmony for over twenty
years.
Blaming the whites is neither here nor there. It is the recent increase in
violence that needs to be tackled - not racism, as I have said before. People
in India who are fanning the flames of the supposed Australian intolerance with
wild protests have little idea what the Police here are faced with. Last
decade's "spare the rod" policies seem to have raised people with scant respect
for authority, whatever shape or form it takes.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/lets-give-a-stuff-about-manners/story-e6frfhqf-1225822639882
On another note, earlier today, I saw women in hijabs and in full-dress purdah
(with a slit for the eyes) walking past in the market place with no-one staring
at them or passing comments. Another interesting sight was an old lady talking
in Chinese to another old lady who replied in Italian and broken English, both
hugging each other and having a good laugh, at a pharmacy. And if you go to
the shopping centres, you'd be quite as likely to be served at counters by
young hijab-clad women as dark-skinned and white-skinned folk.
Gabriel
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