Everyone gets a fair go? 
[quote=“Steviebike”]
Case closed.[/quote]
No way. Japan has awesome porn.
How’s this. There is a dj on morning radio in Australia who had a TV show that rated badly and got a poor review. This was his online response. He still has his job but how is that possible. He was apparently very popular and spoke like this most of the time:
[quote]The communications watchdog has announced it is investigating complaints made about an on-air attack on a journalist by shock jock Kyle Sandilands.
Sandilands launched the attack on news.com.au entertainment editor Alison Stephenson on 2Day FM’s Kyle and Jackie O Show on November 22 after she reported the low ratings of the pair’s television special A Night With The Stars.
“Some fat slag on news.com.au has already branded it a disaster. You can tell by reading the article that she just hates us and has always hated us,” Sandilands said.
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"What a fat, bitter thing you are. You’re deputy editor of an online thing. You’ve got a nothing job anyway. You’re a piece of shit.
"This low thing, Alison Stephenson, deputy editor of news.com.au online. You’re supposed to be impartial, you little troll.
“You’re a bullshit artist, girl. You should be fired from your job. Your hair’s very '90s. And your blouse. You haven’t got that much titty to be having that low cut a blouse. Watch your mouth or I’ll hunt you down.”
At the time the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) said it had received some complaints about his comments.
A spokesman for ACMA announced the investigation today.
“We are investigating complaints about Kyle Sandilands’s remarks on radio on November 22, 2011,” the spokesman said.
“The results of that investigation will be made available in due course.”
Sandilands’s comments sparked an angry debate online, with people on Twitter using the hashtag #vilekyle, and in the media, with many critics calling for him to be sacked.
Read more: theage.com.au/entertainment/ … z1keCgXUH7[/quote]
Kyle’s whole job is to just piss people off and generally act like a tosser. Of course he kept his job, a large enough chunk of the population identify with him enough that they’d lose a massive proportion of their listeners if they axed him. Which should tell you something.
His show’s shite anyway, I think I used to listen to Nova’s breakfast show. They were pretty good.
On an extended note, Australia’s one of the more sexist countries I’ve lived in. This has probably escaped most of your notice since most of you are men. On a scale, I would say it’s less sexist than Taiwan, slightly more sexist than the US, and far more sexist than the UK. I remember my mum telling me what my stepdad’s friends had said just after they moved there - ‘Geez, your old lady talks a lot doesn’t she? Why don’t you tell her to go sit with the girls like the rest of the women?’
And once my friends all started dating around high school/uni years, it was pretty much the boys would go out with their friends and the girls would tag along, and be nice and quiet and not talk to any of the other guys. Very much WTF. And then you’d hear from their boyfriend how they went psycho at home because they didn’t actually want to go out anyway.
Everyone gets a fair go? [/quote]
The racism is weird. I mean, I can kind of understand why most people dislike Chinese people in Brisbane, anyway. They have their own community, all white people are ‘Australians’, they’ll call their one white friend their ‘Australian friend’ and pretty much don’t bother trying to assimilate, there is a definite reverse racism undertone in those circles. And then they do shit like sell female mud crabs at restaurants and fish turtles out of park rivers and lakes to take home and eat. One bloke had his massive (untrained) dog on a teeny leash and it eventually attacked my staffy and tore him a new one (these two dogs had an ongoing problem because my dog was an asshole to bigger dogs, but the owner of the big dog never tried to avoid my mum like we’d try and avoid him). When we demolished our house some bloke kept running in under the crane to steal bricks and shit, take them down the road then come back. We used to catch him walking around the backyard once the fences had come down, looking at everything and trying to take pieces off the carport while we still lived there.
What pisses me off the most is that this is shit they wouldn’t get away with if they tried it in China or Taiwan, but they get away with it there because most of them pull the ‘You’re a racist prick!’ argument if you tell them off. They shut right up and pissed of quick-smart when I swore them out in Chinese and told them to obey the fucking law or get the fuck out, but the government’s kind of unwilling to do anything about it - partly in the name of ‘multiculturalism’ and partly because they have BIG donors in the Chinese business community, which is how most of the Chinese-owned shops and malls don’t obey have the safety rules everywhere else has to.
‘Multiculturalism’ in Australia is what’s fostering the racism. Ten years ago it was a pretty cool place to be, now everyone’s coming in and the government - instead of encouraging immigrants to assimilate - is encouraging the locals to be tolerant and ‘embrace diversity’. Yeah, diversity is wonderful when it’s throwing out its leftovers in the community creek and eating its way through your protected wildlife. The only actual concession to ‘assimilation’ is the government providing free ESL classes for new immigrants and refugees - which run at a snail’s pace, so you never actually learn anything, and pretty much just assure you’ll make more friends in your own ethnic community and won’t ever learn anything about the local population or society at large.
Kevin Rudd won all of the Chinese votes that’s for sure.
I call bullshit on that. I’ve never known any Australian (woman) to keep his or her mouth shut. When you’re in Europe, you can hear them three countries over.
Maybe it was the local culture in the area I was, but that was how it played. When the girls were out on their own or with their own friends (boys or girls) they were loud, fun and had a good time. Whenever I went out with my circle of guy friends from high school all their girlfriends just kind of sat there and waited to be made out with, or talked to the other girls - barely spoke to their boyfriend’s friends at all. It was WEIRD.
I haven’t lived in Aus since I was 21,though, so it could be an immaturity and self-confidence thing. Now, at 25, they might have come into their own, but I don’t hang out with them anymore so I wouldn’t know. When I do see the guys they’re mostly single now though, but really… they’re like intellectual bogans. Not QUITE bogan, but hovering somewhere in the middle.
Just like I mentioned earlier. Race relations aren’t so good as made out and not everybody got a ‘fair go’.
[quote=“headhonchoII”]Just like I mentioned earlier. Race relations aren’t so good as made out and not everybody got a ‘fair go’.
independent.ie/world-news/as … 02185.html[/quote]
Geez them blackfellas is racist.
[quote=“GuyInTaiwan”][quote=“Steviebike”]
Case closed.[/quote]
No way. Japan has awesome porn.[/quote]
and America is more famous for porn than anywhere else in the world ever!
should be: “[strike]FREEDOM[/strike] PORN and JESUS”
[quote=“urodacus”][quote=“headhonchoII”]Just like I mentioned earlier. Race relations aren’t so good as made out and not everybody got a ‘fair go’.
independent.ie/world-news/as … 02185.html[/quote]
Geez them blackfellas is racist.[/quote]
Just a fetish for women’s high heels it seems.
[quote=“headhonchoII”][quote=“urodacus”][quote=“headhonchoII”]Just like I mentioned earlier. Race relations aren’t so good as made out and not everybody got a ‘fair go’.
independent.ie/world-news/as … 02185.html[/quote]
Geez them blackfellas is racist.[/quote]
Just a fetish for women’s high heels it seems.[/quote]
more wholesome than used underpants, I guess.
There was an intereresting article in The Age today written by Pat Dodson. He says:
Read more: theage.com.au/opinion/societ … z1l2jq8QYJ
When you ask people in Australia, they will invariably say that racism is only a minority thing and most people are very welcoming and tolerant of other cultures, and that would seem to be true from my experiences (there are a few Australians on this thread for example - they don’t seem to be flaring up any racial arguments) - the problem is that that minority ‘in our midst’ is a fairly sizeable one and quite out there - and that’s where it differs from Taiwan. The whole time i have been here, no-one has ever yelled racial abuse at me from a passing car or motorbike, or tried to pick a fight with me in the street on account of my skin color, but i wonder if there are many Aboriginals, or Asian or African immigrants that have lived in Australia for the same amount of time who could say the same. It’s not everyone who is doing it - it is a minority - but as Dodson (and Fox) says, the majority are too tolerant of this significant intolerance that does go on. And they can say it’s just a minority, sure, but it’s not what’s going on in other countries that i have been to.
On the other hand, it probably won’t matter how long i do live in Taiwan, i wonder if i would ever be truly accepted as being Taiwanese - or will i always be a wai gwo ren? (not that that really bothers me, actually, so long as i am made to feel welcome, which you certainly are in Taidong at least) Whereas in Australia, despite the racism, immigrants will be accepted as being Australians by most people regardless of their country of origin.
Or do you think that’s just Australians forcing Australia down everyone’s throat?
Reminds me of a thing an immigrant guy i knew remarked on when he went to live there, ‘I can’t believe how much time Australians spend on selling Australia to themselves’.
True, but he still loves living there.
Irish used to be the same, sure aren’t we the best little country in the world, everybody loves us and wishes they were us. Eh no they don’t.
I personally liked living in Australia too. The only thing I really didn’t like was Aussies can be quick to get agro when you are just having a bit of banter, weren’t really able to give as good as they got verbally. Pool table figths, agro in the pub， that sort of thing. Now it could be they missed the cultural clues that we were only supposed to be joking around, I don’t know.
[quote=“headhonchoII”]Irish used to be the same, sure aren’t we the best little country in the world, everybody loves us and wishes they were us. Eh no they don’t.
I personally liked living in Australia too. The only thing I really didn’t like was Aussies can be quick to get agro when you are just having a bit of banter, weren’t really able to give as good as they got verbally. Pool table figths, agro in the pub， that sort of thing. Now it could be they missed the cultural clues that we were only supposed to be joking around, I don’t know.[/quote]
One of my best mates here was an Aussie (although he came from Scotland when he was ten - something called ten pound poms or whatever he called it), and he was nothing like that. Although he did get a bit aggro once or twice. I mostly hang out with Kiwis, and from what I’ve seen posted here, they’re definitely a much chiller accepting lot. I thought Aussies were pretty much the same.
Aussies are a varied bunch, but definitely some have a side that are too quick to become a sore loser or take offense.
Read more: theage.com.au/national/austr … z1lH9TQmji
Fox, i hope you’re packing when u ride that bike to work.
[quote=“Fox”]Imagine if every time you went out in Taiwan on your bicycle, or with your family, or on your scooter and I mean every single time some Taiwanese person yelled “Fuck you! Get a car” “Get a fucking car you cunt!” “Get off the fucking road. You cock sucker!”. Besides wondering about the uptick in Australian teachers, how long would it take you to understand, there is something seriously wrong with this place? Seriously, seriously, wrong.
You can blame it on bogons but the reality is bogons are a highly celebrated bunch in Australian culture.[/quote]
You’re living in Queensland. /thread
If an Aboriginal refers to me as ‘whitefella’ I don’t consider that racist. I consider that accurate. Terms like blackfella and whitefella do not contain the connotation of the Forbidden Word in the US, and can be found in children’s literature, as well as ‘blacky’ used as a nickname for white people (following the counter-intuitive Australian slang tradition which results in a redheaded guy being called ‘Bluey’, a tall guy called ‘Shorty’, and a bald guy called ‘Hairy’).
Racist people are everywhere… it’s only a matter of quantity. Personally, I think Australians are quite okay with foreigners, especially those who live in Melbourne and Sydney. It’s the same in the U.S… From my personal experience at least. 
I agree. 
And I don’t think there are many countries that are better.