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成日有人講二等公民，但到底是否真有存在？1860年代大批華工到澳洲開荒。後來，澳洲白人為免華人與白人通婚，採取白澳政策（White Australia Policy）。但二戰以後，歐美澳社會左翼思想抬頭，取消白澳政策，白人優先成為禁忌，二等公民在法律上不再存在，隨著多元文化的興起，歧視逐漸減少。
「白人優先」的心態是如何形成；移民外國別替華人老闆打工？20210210 https://youtu.be/TxEUR7AbqcI
I studied in Sydney, Australia for 7 years from 1990. Below is received from a old Aussie friend by WhatsApp. I did some FCs, and seems this was written in May 2020. Not sure if he has any new/updated views.
*OPINION*
*Australian ABC Radio Peter Goers:
With China, many Aussies are absolute hypocrites.*
‘Revolution is just a T-shirt away,” sings Billy Bragg.
*The T-shirts are made in China like everything else. We wear and consume the proof of the success of the Chinese Revolution and they drink our wine, use our iron ore, eat our tucker and enrich our entire tourism and education sectors.*
It is almost impossible for almost anyone in the world to go a single day without buying or using something from China.
*China is the engine of the world and now rules the world economically. * We once ludicrously feared Reds under the beds. Now they’ve made the beds we lie in. One in five people in the world is Chinese.
*The People’s Republic of China (as even ardent conservatives attest) achieved the greatest social, political and economic miracle in world history by raising 1.5 billion people out of feudal poverty into a middle class in 50 years*
China has wisely followed the American and British examples of economic colonisation of the world but avoided the appalling errors of fighting useless and expensive wars. *China has not caused a war for hundreds of years.*
The economy of the world is predicated on China. *We ignore China’s communism when we make money from it, but because of the COVID-19 virus we are suddenly sabre-rattling and loathing China’s political system. Hypocrisy rules.*
Britain lied about COVID-19 mortality rates, and Trump’s US continues to exacerbate the virus. Has Australia demanded an inquiry into those countries? No. Japan has been building islands for decades with no international criticism. China builds islands and we send gunboats.
Australia rails against China’s human rights violations yet we continue to imprison refugees in concentration camps and continue to treat Aboriginal people appallingly. Australia is the nation which persecuted and demeaned the Chinese and others through the iniquitous White Australia policy.
Australia continues to treat the Chinese with racism and suspicion through an apparent genetic disposition to distrust them. We despair of Chinese surveillance of its citizens yet increase surveillance on our own. We despair of the Chinese persecution of minority races yet we are eternally trying to weaken our own Racial Discrimination Act.
Our Government is trying to suppress the press. We welcomed the English lords Vestey and McAlpine owning half of northern Australia, we allow American surveillance and military bases and yet we resent any Chinese investment in Australia.
China is a developing nation and is far from perfect – but we have much to learn from it. The cold war against China is damaging and dangerous. The British tried twice to poison and weaken the Chinese through opium addiction, invaded China and stole Hong Kong. There are Australians and Americans who’d gladly try to repeat that.
Sadly, Sinophobia is back officially and publicly as Australians are spitting on Chinese-Australians. Shame.
We are encouraged to criticise China but we rail against Chinese criticism of us. Isn’t Professor Kam Louie, of Hong Kong University, right when he says Australian leadership is “male, pale and stale”, and aren’t the Chinese right when they say Australia is America’s dog?
The Chinese came to Australia before the British, traded peacefully with Aboriginal people and had the good manners not to invade, claim the country and dispossess and massacre them.
The US and Britain are dying. China is flourishing. Napoleon was right when he said 200 years ago: “China is a sleeping giant. When she wakes, she will move the world.”
Australia must move with and not against China with respect and showing good example. Then we grow together in the great leap forward. Put that on a T-shirt made in China.
*Peter Goers can be heard weeknights and Sundays on ABC Radio Adelaide”*
在西澳洲珀斯郊區，有兩大天然奇觀：一處是一片綠草原中的白沙漠，沙的顏色，不同中東非洲的撒哈拉，不是黃的，是純白的，比「白澳政策」更白（Whiter than White Australia Policy )。
而另一處，是「光頭頂」（ Pinnacles ) ，是一片小型的石林。岩筍石笏，千柱擎天。
根據石柱的長短粗幼，可以分為三大區域：
我身邊這兩柱，雄偉爆燈，我將這一帶命名為" The Black Continent " 。
身後面近一點的那堆，都好勁，但細一個碼，我稱之為 "The White Man's Burden"。
至於最遠的一大片，最為矮幼細小，我稱之為 " The Asian Corner ", 或者 "Chinatown" 。
據以上標準，我似乎站錯了隊。
同行的澳洲朋友聽了大笑。
以上文字，歡迎轉發平機會投訴，或者譯成全球一百七十種文字，網絡散發，兼寄交亞非拉歐美各國政府、英國內政部等，譴責我的「種族歧視」。哈哈哈。
white australia policy 在 Voice of the People: The White Australia Policy (1962) 的推薦與評價
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