Two Indian Students Assaulted In Australia

BBC News :

Two Indian students have been assaulted in the Australian city of Melbourne - the latest in a series of attacks there targeting people from India.

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Comments

[bender86]

09:44 AM on 02/03/2010

http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-40327.html

3 Indians arreasted over racist murder of Indian.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/03/2808440.htm

Turns out the alleged victim of racist burning was actually commiting insurance fraud.

I assume these stories never make the Huff Post or the Indian media, they wouldn't tell the right narative.

In assuming any attack on an Indian is racist without a proper investigation, and no evidence to support the accusation you're actually practising bigotry, though the simple hypocracy of this is lost on most.

[Truye]

07:36 PM on 01/26/2010

My sister goes to school in Australia and she talks about attacks on students and how they usually only happen to immigrants, and particularly to Indian students. This happens all the time.
My mother, who also lived down there, told me about them going to some beach resort and how people wrote in the log book, "This place would have been nice if it hadn't been for all the Japanese".

Until 1973 Australia had a "whites-only" policy for immigrants. And it seems many still hold this view.

[tenderlung]

11:34 PM on 01/26/2010

There's a lot of racism in Australia, but I have to wonder where in Australia your sister is living that she thinks that attacks only happen to immigrants / Indian students. We have a well publicised and growing problem with violence in Melbourne and while I think that the bashings of Indian students are racially motivated, they are also definitely linked to the problems we are having with violence amongst young males more generally. I think it's a mistake to approach the two problems as if they have nothing to do with each other.

While people talk about the White Australia policy a lot, the reality of the political climate is a bit more complicated. Australia had an official whites only policy until the 1970s, but the policy was gradually relaxed starting in the 1940s. While I'm sure there are still hangovers from the policy, most of these kids were born in an era of active government promotion of multiculturalism that was quickly followed by the nationalism and paranoia of the Howard years, aka - fear of 'boat people', fear of terrorism, fear of 'unAustralianness'. This was an era in which Asian immigration was increasing alongside frightening government rhetoric regarding the protection of Australian culture / Australian borders. It was always a dangerous game and it seems now like it has taken root in the minds of some of the young men who were growing up at the time. Politics of fear breed monsters.

[hemara]

11:51 PM on 01/26/2010

"Politics of fear breed monsters."

The John Howard legacy.

[infidel2]

05:27 PM on 01/26/2010

Why?