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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you white?  I'm not, and the racism stressed me out[/quote]

OMG Australians are the most racist people on Earth.  I'm a white Hispanic with a very Midwestern accent, so I get to masquerade as a normal Midwestern American.  I'm gob smacked by the things people say to me!!  Like literally pick my jaw off the floor, because they think I'm a safe person to talk to.[/quote]

If you get out of the urban or university town bubbles, America is just as racist, if not more so. I never had issues in Australia and I am not white. [/quote]

Where do you think I got my Midwestern accent?  It wasn't in a university town or an urban center.  I actually spent 15 years in suburban Midwest- overland park, KS to be exact.  Sure, some people are racist there (not actually that many), but they are way too polite to speak it to anyone out loud.  Australians on the other hand just run their mouths freely with near strangers.[/quote]

Australia’s history is just as racist and discriminatory - and as long - as the USA’s.  To suggest that its past isn’t prologue is like saying the USA is no longer a racist nation because we once elected a black man as president.  It’s simply not true.  [/quote]

How can it be as long? White colonists first came to the US in the 1600s. The first white prisoners did not arrive in Australia till 1788. [/quote]

Forgive the hyperbole [/quote]

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