Year 10 History Essay Question: “Australia is, and always has been a racist country” We all have to agree that from the time that Australia was colonized till the 1960’s ish Australia has being a racist country, we have kicked out the previous owners, we have rejected Asians an only let white people in, through government schemes such as the white people only policy. My 3 topics im gonna work on are Laws, Government policys and the peoples culture. Firstly the laws of Australia could be considered racist by the way you look at them, however up until recently the laws have being down right racist to people who aren’t white, for example after WW2 the Australian government activated a scheme which only wanted white people in Australia an if you weren’t white then you were kicked out, they used tatics were officials would go around an test people they thought weren’t Australian an they would use
This war, unfortunately, is not easily defined, has no obvious battle ground, and has an indefinite duration. Because of the sporadic nature of the war on terror, the government would not be justified and some actions are causing controversy. Current definitions of terrorism fail to capture the magnitude of the problem both locally and worldwide and the effect of the problem affects some communities more than others. The burden of using physical descriptions to look for terrorists has fallen on Muslims or Middle Easterners because the September 11 hijackers were of Middle Eastern descent. Most Americans were opposed to racial profiling before September 11.
The riots came about due to racial tensions sparked by the acquittal of three officers accused of police brutality against Rodney King following a high speed chase on March 3, 1991. It would be easy to suggest that the Rodney King trial and verdict was the cause of the rioting, considering the immediate reaction to the news. However, although the acquittal of the police officers was the immediate precipitant, the Los Angeles riots of 1992 were the result of many underlying macro social conditions - specifically racism, social Injustice, and poverty. The living conditions in South Central Los Angeles in the years prior to the riots were below average. The per capita income was less than half that of Los Angeles as a whole, and poverty and unemployment rates were more than twice as high.
It is unlawful to discriminate on the basis of race, color, nationality and descent. More than one Australians say they have been physically attacked because of their race, therefore. Race is a significant social issue. Racism is denying people access to rights, representation or resources based on racial differences. Most of today’s racism can be traced back to the era of colonialism that began in the1400s.
Why did the riots of 1981 happen and to what extent did the reaction to the riots reflect institutionalised racism? The race riots that erupted throughout England during 1981 were the result of a growing tensions between the black community and the local police forces. Indeed, 1981 has been described as “an annus mirabilis of UK race relations” (Cashmore & Troyna, 1990). But why was there such tension between the local communities within the affected areas and their local police force? Could steps have been taken to avoid the civil disturbances, the largest seen in the 20th century in Great Britain, that followed?
Hate crimes are still very real in today’s world. There is more than one type of hate crime in the United States. Hate crimes are attacks against a person, property or even the society and are because of racism. Even though the Civil Rights Act was passed the people are still acting out and violating harmless victims because of racism. It is surprising the statistics even for 2012 of the violate attacks against the victims.
By integrating ‘half casts’ into white society, policy makes hoped they would marry white partners and eventually, over time, diminish any traces of Indigenous culture and identity. A graphic example of the impact of child removal policies can be seen through its impact on Malcolm Smith and his family. Malcolm Smith, a child of the Stolen Generation, was taken away after stealing a push bike, the state saw his parents ‘unfit’ and continued to tear apart their once big family. The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, Report of the Inquiry into the Death of Malcolm Charles Smith (1989) 1-5 stated
In social justice it just means socially everything is right and with no disadvantages. But today I'm talking about social injustice, so that is generally the wrong things that are happening in Australia. The people affected by racial acts are deeply hurt by the words or actions put up to them, and most of the time they are scarred for life. The injustice that has occurred in Australia is racism and this injustice has
The article Emerging Issues discusses among other things, public opinion polls which found to ‘show some fear of racial trouble, widespread resistance to Asian immigration and a strong intent to keep Australia ‘White’ (Goot 1984: 17), it goes on to say that there has been a certain amount of tolerance but attitudes toward Asian immigration where negative. Another example would be the Cronulla Race riots, which was a series of racially motivated events in Cronulla in 2005 where 5000 people descended on Cronulla to protest against ‘non-locals’ (reportedly Middle Eastern looking youths from Western Sydney) being violent towards ‘locals’. A previous incident between three off-duty life savers and youths of middle eastern appearance had sparked the protest. There were many injuries to the ‘non-locals’, both male and female, that happened to arrive at Cronulla that day, most were mobbed and bashed. Many incidents of violence occur within the homosexual community also.
The acts of bullying have also been listed as an offence in criminal records, and is also in the Trends and Issues in criminal and criminal justice, advertised by the Australian Institute of Criminology. A survey of schools across 36 countries ranked Australia amongst most the worst in the world in terms of bullying so naturally, addressing this problems is at the top of school’s agenda. Bullying has been an international issue that has been addressed all over the world. The social relations and differences in methods of tackling this problem in Japan and Australia may allow the two nations to support each other. No individual should feel threatened by any other.