Australia is full of different races and cultures but we all sing a particular song.
We are one but we are many
and from all the lands we come
we share a dream
and sing with one voice
I am, you are, we are Australian.
When ever I hear that song, usually on telly,with many people from many countries, it brings tears to my eyes because it says so much. And I am not generally a mushy person
Just as an aside. When indians and pakistanis started to come into England in the late fifties and early sixties(west Indians and Africans as well) there was alot of disgruntled people. (jobs and stuff) but I had quite few friends who were Pakistani and Indian whom I invited to tea on several occasions. I even took one fishing on the Calder. I had caught about seven roach which I had in a keep net and was about to tip them back in the river. But my friend wanted to take them home for tea so I gave them to him. He probably found they were not good eating
There was never any predudice in my house when I was a kid. The nearest thing to it was when my parents who were going out for the night and I used to complain that I wasn't going with them. My granny (who had to babysit)used to say to me." If you don't shut your gob your mum will run off with a blackman. That upset me. Not about the black man but the fact she would run off.
I can guarantee that you people of Accy don't even give the time of day to your ethnics. Not much good you saying There OK. Invite them into your homes for christ sakes. I might then start to believe you when you start spouting off about you non-predudiced assertions