I know there are all sorts of gangs, but the gangs I was talking about, are the street gangs, High School drop outs who think they are hard core gangsters, and who "roll" people for the sake of it. If you have been through the Australian public school system you ll know what am talking about. BTW Half of the Bikie gangs are Lebanese as well. You would never see a Italian gangster saying "watcha looking at cu*t" just cause you looked their way
Again, you are spouting uninformed and unsubstantiated prejudice.
Gangs in Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
If you think that gangs in Richmond, Footscray and St. Albans are Middle Eastern, then you really haven't been to those neighborhoods.
Lebbo is not a racist term, Lebbos themselves call themselves Lebbos. My Lebbo mates call me curry I call them Lebbo nothing racist about it.
It is entirely a racist term, just as curry is a racist term. Just because Indians call themselves curry or blacks call themselves the n-word doesn't change the fact that it is a racist term.
High schoolers and the uni crowd use racist terms to sound 'tough', but it does not make those words any more acceptable.
I agree that Australian culture is much more tolerant of racist labels than, say, American culture. We are very laid back.
But it doesn't change the fact that the Lebo, Abo, Wog, Curry, etc. are all racist terms. When's the last time you heard them on national TV?
(Wog is borderline -- it has become a bit of a joke and lost its sharp edge).
Just cause there are ethnic migrants in the country, doesn't mean they need to be in the media and television. You need tertiary education in that field to pursue such career. You get me a percentage of ethnic people doing media courses at uni and then I ll tell you if ethnic migrants are fairly represented on Australian channels or not. Also most of the Asian migrants have come to Australia recently. Corresponding "demographic shift" in the media will happen when the next generation of these migrants grow up.
Oh please! Large scale Asian migration started in the late 70s and early 80s. Most Asians here are second and third generation. They are well represented in academia, business and professional life. The only place they are almost entirely missing is in the mainstream media.
BTW these faces ring a bell? All ABC news presenters.
Yes, I knew you were going to bring up ABC. It is a government-sponsored charity case. ABC news has the same demographic as SBS -- the intellectual crowd. In any case, it strengthens my case and proves that these minorities are entirely ready for mainstream media. It is the mainstream media which is not ready for them. It is significant that Poh had to go to ABC for a show, even though she won Masterchef on Ten.
Show me significant minority representation in the commercial Australian media that captures 80% of the mainstream audience.
From
Television ratings in Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia the 2007 audience share breaks down as
SBS 5.6%
ABC 16.3%
Ten 21.6%
Nine 27.4%
Seven 29.0%
Developereo,
be grateful for all australia has given you.
I am supporting the Australian public, but the Australian media is very racist.
Youve just pointed out the middle eastern Intergration problem in your own reply congrats.
Nonsense. I am saying that all ethnicities in Australia refer to themselves by their ethnic background. It is not unique to Lebanese by any means, as you implied.
to further add to the Pics SBS reporters
I already said that SBS is one of the few channels that includes minorities. And SBS is specifically geared towards the intellectual, artsy-fartsy crowd and minorities. It is the Australian equivalent of the American PBS channel and has a very narrow demographic other than for topical sports programming (soccer, cycling). Take away soccer/cycling and most Australians wouldn't even know that SBS exists.