XPost: rec.sport.cricket, soc.culture.scottish, soc.culture.irish   
   From: micheil@shaw.ca   
      
   On 12 Oct 2006 11:04:37 -0700, "Don"  wrote:   
      
   >   
   >Sampath wrote:   
   >> Mel Gibson, Lleton Hewitt ?   
   >   
   >Hewitt is of English origin and so by nature could be racist. :)   
   >   
   >> Still think aussies are not racists, don ?   
   >   
   >AFAIK, i have read about only one really racist instance coming from   
   >Australia - that   
   >of Paula Hanson. Hanson has Swedish(North West European origins)   
   >and hence could be racist by nature.   
   >   
   >Most of the Aussies seem to insult and foul-mouth others (like Mcgrath   
   >and   
   >Waugh) but they don't seem to be racist (the word has other   
   >connotations   
   >other than insulting or foul-mouthing). In my opinion anyway. Racism is   
   >a much more mentally dangerous phenomenon of making others feel   
   >inferior by birth   
   >than pure insulting which btw almost every human being does to others.   
   >   
   >   
   >Don   
      
   Onviously you've never heard Australians discussing Aborigines,   
   Italians, Greeks, Lebanese, etc...   
      
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