There is something rotten in Australia

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Just about every Australian is racist to some extent, most people think all the racist steroetypes of immigrants, and sometimes the thoughts are even voiced, but the percentage of the population that actually wants to kick them out is rather small(it's still a lot of people of course, just a small percentage). For the most part, despite our racist thoughts, we are quite accepting of them. Like someone said before 25% of the population was born overseas, and almost 50% have at least one parent who was born overseas.

I doubt it's just Australians, though the Colonies were always more insular and less accepting than Britain. As I said before, everyone is prejudiced.

The exact words were: “We will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come.”

Question: Why should anyone be allowed to come to your country? A nation should be a polity, a socila arrangement between it's citizens. People coming to your country are applying to join your polity.

Lancashire (as Subotan will most likely comment on) is mostly an low level of melanin area of Britain. Only people of different melanin levels are pretty much working in the NHS or Foriegn Exchange student at University.

So all my interactions with people of other melanin levels have always been positive experience.

It is really strange, because all these comments racists/etc make, just seem really stupid. As my interactions have seem positive and all the comments racists make about them, I see from the locally born, low melalin level populace.

Though, I have to admit, going to Luton and ending up in a service station where I was the only low-level melalin person was a really weird experience.

Devon is the same, darker skinned people make me uncomfortable, on a gut level, and I think it's just because I didn't meet any when I was a child (at all).