August/September Applause Winner

Jiyuu-Freedom · Oct 31, 2011

We have been discussing whether to continue the monthly contest for the best posts. We are asking members to volunteer a good OP or post when they read one.

We got behind and combined the last couple of winners in a 2 month cycle instead of one. I would like to go back to the monthly pick.

Congratulations to "frodo" nominated by Doug_yvr, for this post in the thread, "Worlds Most Livable City, I win!:

http://www.politicalforum.com/205013-worlds-most-liveable-city-i-win-post4398205.html#post4398205

Native Australians?

Who do you mean, Aborigines?

There are no European "Native Australians" we are all "boat people".

About half the population have at least one parent who was born overseas.

We try and make the multicultural thing work, and it mostly does.

Each new group of migrants have been demonised in turn, but after the second generation has been born and educated here they fit right in.

For the record the list of demons in roughly chronological order, is as follows, be aware that all of them have been tarred with exactly the same brush ie "They are natural criminals and gangsters who will make trouble and never fit in":

The Chinese gold miners around 1860 - Our last Mayor of Melbourne, John Ho, is descended from this group.

The Irish 1800 - 1900 - "They take orders from the Pope."

The Italians 1945 - 1955 - "Natural Mafia criminals".

The Greeks 1955 - 1965 - " Natural criminals and welfare cheats"

Croations and Serbs - "Bring their ethnic rivalries to Australia"

Lebanese part One 1965- 1975 - "Natural criminals and drug dealers - Christian division"

Lebanese part Two 1975 - 1985 - "Natural criminals and drug dealers - Muslim division"

Vietnamese 1970 - 1980 - "Natural criminals, drug dealers and brothel owners"

Romanians and other Eastern Europeans 1990 - 2000 - "members of overseas organised crime syndicates"

Iraqis, Iranians and Pakistanis 2000 - 2011 - "Criminal welfare cheats and sharia law advocates"

Somalis 2005 - ongoing - "lawless machete wielding criminals"

The actual reality is that each of these immigrant groups actually have lower crime rates than the rest of the Australian population, but that does not stop the media talking up a good scare story.

My case is typical, Dad was born in Germany, Mom is American, my neighbours are from Greece, almost all my friends have similar "mongrel" backgrounds - it gives us hybrid vigour.

Today I'm lunching at an unbelievably good Vietnamese restaurant "Thien An" in a run down drug infested but seriously stylishly "edgy"suburb that has been taken over by Africans and Indians.
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