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what makes you say Australia is an openly racist country?

I've heard anecdotes from Asian Australians but not really sure how true it is.

but anyways, it made me grateful for being in Canada.

Yeah someone made a comment about this but unfortunately deleted it before I could respond. I regret putting that in there and wish I could retract it now; I guess I got a little carried away. My parents (an inter-racial couple) copped it a bit, but I guess that was decades ago and things have probably moved on.

Naw mate, you're not wrong. Look there are heaps of examples of certain kinds of people in Australia being a bit backward? People bang on about wogs, poms, abos and decry political correctness ('gone mad I tell you'). Then you have your polis like Pauline bloody Hanson who appeal to that. There is definitely something there but is it really any worse than say the rural UK or just look at who is running the States now? Probably not. I'd be as worried about a widening class divide in Australia.

As long as there's handful of good people that I can find common value with I think really that's all that matters. There's bound to be ignorant and backward people from all walks of life from any part of the world.

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