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   From: micheil@shaw.ca   
      
   On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 19:17:30 +0100, "Mike MacKinnon"   
    wrote:   
      
   >   
   >"Don"  wrote in message   
   >news:1160676277.826938.256440@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...   
   >>   
   >> 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   
   >>   
   > Ever hear of the White Australia Policy?   
      
   Precisely!   
   >   
   >Mike   
   >   
      
      
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