When will international students learn that Australia is NOT a racist country?

GayHomoSapien: When will international students learn that Australia is NOT a racist country?
Ok, I find it very ironic how international students accuse Australia of being a ‘racist’ nation, when the Australian government is making great efforts to give international students appropriate accommodation in Australia.

Of course, I have more points to make my question more understood.

Fact 1: The Australian government allows international students to come and study at Australian universities, meanwhile many other countries DO NOT offer the same opportunities.

Fact 2: The Australian government developed English classes to help international students to develop better English speaking skills. However, some international students are reluctant to learn English, instead they bribe other people to complete their English essays for them. Many international students use their “poor english” as a reason to avoid conversation with other people.

Fact 3: Australia is a multicultural country that respects all cultures. However, many international students only associate with members from their own ethnic or language background. They are reluctant to talk to any person from a different culture.

Fact 4: Inbternational students are allowed to celebrate their national events in Australia. However, international students are often reluctant to participate in any national Australian event like Australia Day and ANZAC Day. If you ask an international student to come celebrate with you, they might make up excuses like; “I’m busy studying” or “My english is poor”.

Fact 5: Many international students work illegally, this leaves many Australian citizens unemployed. Many local students must wake up at 5am to work, or else they cannot pay their rent. Even though international students work for very long hours, most of their money goes to their own families living OUTSIDE Australia. International students do not even pay taxes since they are working ILLEGALLY.

Fact 6: Whenever someone harrasses an international student, the whole country hears about it for the next 2 months. However, there are more Australian citizens being assaulted and it only appears on the news for less than a week.

Fact 7: International students don’t contribute to Australia, they take whatever they receive, and offer nothing in return. They complain about student poverty while their wealthy parents are paying for their education.

Ok. This pretty much explains most of it.
If you’ve actually bothered to read all that, then you tell me; who is more ‘racist’?

Answers and Views:

Answer by xXx_benxloveforever&l
NEVER!!

because we ARE a racist nation. we don’t need all these asians clogging our education system they have better systems in their own countries and we don’t want ‘halal approved’ seal on OUR vegemite jar like wtf! we don’t want a whole suburb where we aussies can’t read anything or where the mafia donimate every house or people walking round the shops with cloth head to foot to ‘cover their beauty’ or whatever that crap is. and indians driving our cabs who don’t know where they are going and rip us of just to get somewhere AND MORE BLODDY BOATS FULL OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS who paid some criminal 20 grand to flee their own country to come to a detention centre on our shores.
if i don’t know any better i would say that YOU are an international student yourself so go and cook a fried monkey spider or whatever the hell you eat where you come from and get yourself a one way ticket outta here

REAL AUSSIES WERE BORN AND BRED HERE AND TRUE BLUE AUSTRALIAN’S WE WILL ALWAYS BE.

Answer by NOLA guy
When Australia implements Sharia law, requires burkas for women, takes the vote from women, gives non-Whites 6 votes each, and so on. Basically only when Australia totally surrenders to the anti-western, anti-capitalist, anti-democratic elements of the world. THEN maybe Australia (plus Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the USA) will cease being called racist by them.

Answer by Yellow Alarm Clock
1. Allowing people into the country does not mean we’re not racist.
2. You’re accusing ‘many international students’ of cheating? Yeah, that’s certainly not racist.
3. Australian students do exactly the same thing when they study in other countries. It’s intimidating to be studying in a country with a different language and culture, especially when everyone is as welcoming as you are.
4. You ‘celebrate’ on ANZAC Day? It’s a day of remembrance for fallen soldiers, not an excuse to invite your mates over for a celebration. In any case, I’m finding it hard to believe that you would actually invite international students to do anything with you.
5. That’s not really true, and it’s yet another example of you making an offensive generalisation about international students.
6. Again, that’s not true. The vast majority of harassment is not reported.
7. International students make a significant contribution to Australia. Many work and pay taxes while studying, and their course fees provide an important source of funding for our universities.

Answer by Justinsane
Forget the international students. I am totally embarrassed for the Aussies out there that seem to think that the REAL indigenous Australians can be treated like second class citizens and that racist attittudes towards them is acceptable. I feel that a lot of Aussies that are perceived as racist aren’t actually racist but are afraid to go against the racist opinions of others (not always racist opinions, maybe bigotry or ignorance). I’ve seen it a thousand times where a group of Aussies band together and denigrate another group of people, whether it be New Zealanders, English, Americans or whoever. Whenever a question about “Australia’s racist attitude” is asked all the answerers say that it is just a minority of Aussies that are like that but on the other side of the coin all the refugees are terrorists, all the international students are cheats and steal their education from Australia or all Muslims are disrespectful to the “Australian way of life”. Also something that is said a lot is “Australia is a multicultural society” (in the same breath) “But you gotta be and do stuff like us”. There just seems to be a lot of contridictions when it comes to the answers that come up.
Anyway how can one person say if a country is racist? They can only go on their own experiences. Of course white Australians would experience less racism than a darker person.