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The racism in Australia is making controversy, some statistics give a high result in racism,
while “1 in 5 school students experience racism every day, 1 in 5 people experience racism at
sports events, 1 in 3 people experience racism in the workplace, 1 in 3 people take a stand
against racism.” (All together now, s.f.), taking this statistics into account, we could affirm
that the thoughts of Australian people are in favor and tried to affect people by racism.
“Australia is not the land of the fair go, it is a nation where cruelty, ignorance,
discrimination and racism are not only common place but rewarded, respected and justified ”
(Cromb, 2015). Australian people deny this when it comes to racism, “One in ten have racist
attitudes. One in seven people living in Australia are against the concept of
multiculturalism and one in three believe there are some cultural groups that do not belong in
Australia” (All together now, s.f.). Australian population deny these attitudes, this makes
In 2015, a group of Australian students that were afro descendants, were forced to leave an
Apple store because the personal argument was to catalogue them as “robbers”, the video was
loaded by the kids in Facebook platform that form polemic among the anti-racist users which
wrote bad commentaries against the store brand and led the administrative head to make an
Other evidence of racism but in sports area demonstrated with Adam Goodes, number 37
of Sydney Swans players. He is being booed in his matches because of an indigenous dance
he did when he scored a goal. "A 13-year-old girl called me an ape." (Goodes, 2014), he was
not surprised but he stands up against racism to call out for people to stop this type of
commentaries. And he is right, Australian people need to finish with racism, if it happens with a
“I remember working as a dental assistant and one day, some dental students came in to see if
the dentist on duty could do a survey. One of the students was Aboriginal, and the receptionist
said that she couldn’t believe it. I asked her why and she said ‘because Aboriginals aren’t that
smart’.” (Morelli, 2017), this last exposed case makes all person question how by the color of the
By last, when you talk about racism, you known is a worldwide problem but in case of
Australia, their problem is they don’t evaluate their actions and think they are doing all well, but
we need more persons like Adam Goodes, who encourage people to take advantage of racist
individuals and stand against them. Australian racism would not end until they understand their
References
All together now. (s.f.). Obtenido de http://alltogethernow.org.au/racism/
Cromb, N. (18 de August de 2015). Independent Australia. Obtenido de
https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/ignorance-bigotry-and-racism-
in-australia,8068
Goodes, A. (3 de 9 de 2014). CNN. (G. Morley, Entrevistador) Obtenido de HUMAN TO
HERO: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/03/sport/adam-goodes-afl-aboriginal-
rights/index.html
Morelli, L. (2 de 3 de 2017). NITV. Obtenido de https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/nitv-
news/article/2017/02/27/10-times-indigenous-australians-have-experienced-everyday-
racism