Of fleeting memories and highs

A journal of an 82-year-old woman

Fantasies of a white nation August 8, 2011

Filed under: Uncategorized — sallysays @ 1:12 am

where did he get a child looking so apt and mature for his book?!

photoshop genius? i always forget i’m living in a world of changeable lives.

I’m blogging about an egging idea i read about recently,one night a week ago, i thought i’d get some school work done, and came across a reading from a professeur in melb uni. His idea on multiculturalism in australia, felt close to heart. I think everyone should at least read the intro of this book (:

What’s the difference between a person who graffiti’s “Go back to your own country you wogs” and another who says “Leave them alone, Australia is a multicultural country, we should embrace immigrants”? A huge difference right? One we would all call “a racist” and the other not. I was pleasantly educated by Ghassan Hage. He points out that there are more similarities than differences in the above two personnage. Firstly, both personas feel that they have the right to ‘direct traffic’. Both see immigrants (or what Hage says as Third-World Looking (TWL) people) as objects subjected to ‘how we should deal/treat them in their White Nation. His experience as a lebanese-australian is very timely for myself…

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