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Re: visible minorities?

Eviltony — Fri, 11 May 2007 11:39:59 GMT

>for example Irish people, who are counted as a minority in the UK but look just like British people.

Yep! We Irish are generally an audible minority - we distinguish ourselves by our accents.

Yes, invisible minorities tend to be composed of things such as religion, nationality and people who don't like football.
Trent University obviously wants people it can point to to prove it isn't biased or bigoted, they don't seem to want the invisible minority types.

Re: Australia acts like Britain? Why?

dave80 — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 18:29:36 GMT

Australia was a British nation. Founded by the British, heavily populated by British people or descendents of British people. Of course our cultures are similar because (largely) we're the same people. But like the British, Australians love the best of all the world's cultures and has imported them, so Australia now doesn't only 'act' like Britain. Eg, We play American sport too (baskeball) speak American slang, and eat American Fast-food. But there is also the unique Aussie culture too - our own sport (Australian rules football), our slang, and our own food.

Of course there are also many Australians whose families have come from parts of the world other than Britain - like Asia, Africa and they brought their culture. There are also the original Australians - the Aboriginal people who have their own culture.

Australia acts like Britain but not only Britain...

Re: Coca-Cola

Usenet — Sun, 13 Jul 2003 10:21:49 GMT

[nq:1]Le Sat, 12 Jul 2003 04:30:01 GMT, Steve Hayes a écrit :[/nq]
[nq:2]Good, that means I can drink Mirinda with a clear ... me not to buy American products since the Iraqi-American War.[/nq]
[nq:1]That sounds like my fifteen-year-old son. When he helps me with the shopping he insists on reading the label on everything we buy, to make sure that it's not an American product.[/nq]
You have taught him unreasoning hate at an early age. Why am I not surprised?
[nq:1]Some of the results are surprising. It turns out, for example, that almost all carbonated drinks are owned by the Coca-Cola company, something that is never mentioned in the advertising for those drinks.[/nq]
Another plot, no doubt.
[nq:1]It's interesting to see that the only people here who are boycotting American products are either old fogies like me, or very young people like my son.[/nq]
Fools tend to have foolish sons.
[nq:1]I notice this only because I had children at a relatively advanced age.[/nq]
I feel sorry for them.
[nq:1]The intermediate generation seems to be taking the attitude that "yes, I know our participation in the war was immoral, but it's over now, so why make a fuss about it?".[/nq]
Who has said this or believes it? Your gratuitous comment is more needless and unconsidered, assuming what might be unreasonable to assume, than your period at the end of it.
[nq:1]In fact it's not over yet, since some of our soldiers are still fighting the remnants of Iraqi resistance, but that doesn't make a big splash in the news.[/nq]
As happens in most wars. It has and is being fully covered in the newspapers and in television news reports. Complain about something -- for we know how you love to complain -- that is real and not a figment of your pathetic imagination.
[nq:1]The big news is all about things like the local football results, and the majority of the population finds me weird for not understanding that the football results are more important than the international news.[/nq]
That is because they, the majority of them, are so stupid and you are so very intelligent.
[nq:1]It appears that George Bush is taking a similar tack. The Nazi invasion of Poland was immoral because the British opposed it.[/nq]
Are you being purposely argumentative or are you simply unfeeling and obtuse, in general?
[nq:1]The American invasion of Iraq was justified because the British did not oppose it. (Well, the British people did, but not the British government.) The basic idea seems to be that a military victory is always morally justified, on the grounds that it succeeded.[/nq]
People are a hell of a lot smarter, and moral, than you give them credit for.
[nq:1]Moi, I continue to believe that regime change begins at home.[/nq]
Then talk about Australia, not America, and leave your opinions about things you know little about to others.
[nq:1]There is one country that has bigger stockpiles of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons than any other country,[/nq]
That is a lie if you're referring to the United States.. No-one in their right mind would want nuclear weapons to exist in an ideal world; men far wiser than you are doing what they can to see that the world's countries destroy them or are disarmed of them, along with the other two. They act while crybabies like you only moan.
[nq:1]but there's little we can do about it apart from hoping that the citizens of that country will finally rise up and depose the warmongers.[/nq]
Americans will continue to plan on defending themselves as long as there is an America, as I'm sure will most Australians: those of them with courage that is, as opposed to crybabies who are so unhappy about nearly everything that it is of no significance.

There are far better ways open to us than the traitorous revolution you appear to advocate.

I await more of your posts, for they raise my opinion of mankind: you are alone, of the people I know, in being so dismally misinformed about society, people, and world affairs and of having such a warped view of the world that you make nearly everyone I know look very very good. -- Charles Riggs

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Re: Coca-Cola

Usenet — Sun, 13 Jul 2003 06:54:13 GMT

Le Sat, 12 Jul 2003 04:30:01 GMT, Steve Hayes a écrit :
[nq:1]Good, that means I can drink Mirinda with a clear conscience, since my daughter has been urging me not to buy American products since the Iraqi-American War.[/nq]
That sounds like my fifteen-year-old son. When he helps me with the shopping he insists on reading the label on everything we buy, to make sure that it's not an American product. Some of the results are surprising. It turns out, for example, that almost all carbonated drinks are owned by the Coca-Cola company, something that is never mentioned in the advertising for those drinks.

It's interesting to see that the only people here who are boycotting American products are either old fogies like me, or very young people like my son. I notice this only because I had children at a relatively advanced age. The intermediate generation seems to be taking the attitude that "yes, I know our participation in the war was immoral, but it's over now, so why make a fuss about it?". In fact it's not over yet, since some of our soldiers are still fighting the remnants of Iraqi resistance, but that doesn't make a big splash in the news. The big news is all about things like the local football results, and the majority of the population finds me weird for not understanding that the football results are more important than the international news.

It appears that George Bush is taking a similar tack. The Nazi invasion of Poland was immoral because the British opposed it. The American invasion of Iraq was justified because the British did not oppose it. (Well, the British people did, but not the British government.) The basic idea seems to be that a military victory is always morally justified, on the grounds that it succeeded.

Moi, I continue to believe that regime change begins at home. There is one country that has bigger stockpiles of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons than any other country, but there's little we can do about it apart from hoping that the citizens of that country will finally rise up and depose the warmongers.

-- Peter Moylan http://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au Newcastle, NSW, Australia