Father Buckley's letter from Australia
Dear Weaver,
After coming to Australia, there are two topics that are always the same as the mosquito in the mosquito net in the middle of the night. One is my last regret and the other is the discrimination that I have to say this time.
It ' s strange to say that these two feelings have not been experienced by me. They are even rarer than dinosaurs in my world, even though one is in the folk mouth-to-mouth, one in the headlines of the media.
So I don't know how to answer when a friend in the background says, "Australia is good, but it's racial discrimination against Chinese." After all, things I haven't had before don't necessarily exist, just as I've lived in the country for so many years without cancer, and I can't be so stupid as to conclude that haze doesn't suck dead.
For this reason, I risked being blown up by righteousness on my chest, resolutely found 100 cases of discrimination against Chinese people in Australia on the Internet, deeply observed the feelings of those who were discriminated against, and then went to the depths of the Blue Mountain for 7 days and looked up at the star sky overhead. Looking down at the inner norms, it finally came to light.
All right, here's the time for academic discussion.
(I)
Let's take a look at the definition of discrimination. This is what Wikipedia wrote:
Discrimination is directed at members of a particular group who treat them differently and poorly simply because of their identity or classification rather than their personal characteristics.
As can be seen from the above definition, discrimination is "treatment", not "view", so discrimination must be an act, not a view. If it is only a view, it can only be called prejudice.
For example, a bar owner says he hates trifles, which is prejudice; but if he refuses to enter his bar, it's discrimination.
It is not, of course, that it is not a discrimination to be put to a language, and when a language becomes a means of intentionally damaging the other, it has evolved into an act of violence and discrimination.
For example, when an Australian mother complained that a Chinese purchasing agent had robbed a drugstore of milk powder, saying it was not friendly, it was just an expression of opinion; And when she stood in front of the drugstore and scolded the Chinese people for "Chinese pig get back," that was discrimination.
In addition, discrimination must be a differential treatment, and widespread insults are not discriminatory.
For example, if a bus driver sees a passenger refusing to pick up one, it doesn't mean it's discriminatory, it just means he wants to strike.
The Chinese-language media in Australia often have news that some Chinese students have been beaten. As soon as such a thing happens, the Chinese community will be in a strong mood to complain of discrimination. It depends on whether these attacks are directed specifically at Chinese people or the prevalence of bullying by delinquent teenagers.
School violence is a universal phenomenon all over the world. Recently, the domestic rice fat tragedy, the cause of murderers is the school was bullied. In the case of Australia, bullying is not uncommon, with the University of Sydney in the past few months uncovering years of scandalous admissions for freshmen.
(II)
Even if it is possible to determine what kind of practice is to be treated differently, we should also analyse whether such discrimination has seriously affected the extent to which the Chinese community is living in Australia.
Discrimination can be divided into individual discrimination, organizational discrimination and system discrimination, in the light of the size of the discrimination.
The man in the "three billboards" beat up the same man, which was personal discrimination; the anti-homosexual love campaign was aggressively opposed to the legalization of same-sex marriage, which was organizational discrimination; If Australia does not legalize same-sex marriage, this is institutional discrimination.
If the eyes of individual discrimination are as sharp as needles, then organizational discrimination is a group of gold needle shaders, and institutional discrimination is that needles are like rainstorms and nowhere to hide.
The harm of individual discrimination and small-scale organizational discrimination is relatively small. Only when a kind of discrimination develops into large-scale organizational discrimination or institutional discrimination can we say that there is serious discrimination in this society.
The typical widespread organisational discrimination was the against China riots in Indonesia in the last century.
System discrimination is a form of discrimination that affects the most egregious forms of discrimination, as such acts are protected by the State-based violence machine, which is almost impossible for ordinary people to fight against them.
The black apartheid system in the United States was a typical system discrimination, and the household registration system in a certain country was also a kind of naked system discrimination.
(III)
From what I've seen as a "deplorable experience of discrimination", there are just some expressions of stereotype about the Chinese. For example, "Chinese people fire up house prices in Australia", "Chinese people spit everywhere" and "Chinese people love dog meat", even if these conclusions are wrong, they cannot be said to be discriminatory, but only prejudices.
There are also some non-discriminatory treatment. Most famously, United caught four passengers off the plane, and the other three were of unknown race and unlikely to be all Asian. Dullide, the leading actor, was dragged violently because he refused to get off the plane, and there was no race-specific behavior in the matter.
Of course, there are still many incidents, indeed, discrimination against Chinese, but the vast majority of them are personal discrimination. For example, whites scolded Chinese fucking chinese, white families not to allow their children to associate with Chinese children. There is also small-scale organisational discrimination, such as the poster "No Chinese entry" posted by extremist groups at the University of Melbourne last year.
As for the widespread organizational and institutional discrimination against Chinese, I have not seen a single thing. Instead, Chinese opposition to the construction of mosque was hugely loud and hypocritical that it had nothing to do with religion.
(IV)
So why does this thief shout that the Chinese anti-discrimination voice of thieves is always so loud?
Because some people have never been aware of the fact that discrimination in the world would have been everywhere.
There are not only racial discrimination, but also gender discrimination, age discrimination, discrimination in sexual orientation, discrimination in South Jiangsu and North Jiangsu, aesthetic discrimination in moments, discrimination in literature and art youth, discrimination in the degree of hegemony of the president's husband.
The civil service's admission hall is written by the emperor who is not to recruit more than 35-year-old greasy middle-aged, some of which are also directly assigned to take it.
The same unit does the same work, but also divided into administrative, career, labor dispatch, cleaning aunt.
Obviously all undergraduate courses, but also three, six, nine, behind the jump five can enter the Tianmao, otherwise it is Taobao.
However, both the top and the bottom take it for granted after doing it for a long time, so they don't know how to discriminate. On the contrary, after leaving the country, a window of discrimination was suddenly opened, and a finger came in and pointed.
Anyone who can go abroad will certainly not be at the bottom of the discrimination chain at home. But when they came to the alien territory, their sense of existence suddenly fell into a vacuum, so they had to put on three watches on their own, representing the country on behalf of the people, representing the overseas compatriots, and as soon as they encountered a problem, they could not help but put on a three-piece watch on their own. It all boils down to their own "Chinese" label.
I was defamed, I was humiliated on behalf of the Chinese; I was beaten, I was injured on behalf of the Chinese; I was left out, I am on behalf of the Chinese to taste the world.
When you are scolded, you go back, you get help when you are beaten, you are left out and you are angry and they will not be able to rise up in the future. A good small heart, why do you have to hold a porcelain dream, prick it and break it to the ground?
And, on behalf of me, ask for my opinion first, okay?