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Local report highlights uncomfortably racist truths
Share24 Mar 2014 by Kristen Daly 199 Views #international #news #studentculture
Have you ever felt Aussies are a particularly racist bunch? A national report released today by Monash University may just confirm those sneaking suspicions.
The Scanlon Foundation Mapping Social Cohesion study has found that almost half of Australia’s recent arrivals have experienced high levels of discrimination on the basis of their ethnicity, skin colour or religion.
The report found that 41 per cent of non-English speaking immigrants who arrived between 2000 and 2010 have faced discrimination based on these factors.
In a biting conclusion, the research found that recently arrived immigrants “do not find Australian people to be caring, friendly or hospitable”.
Only 31 per cent of recent arrivals agreed that most people and institutions – including the Federal Parliament – can be trusted.
Migrants from non-English speaking backgrounds appear to suffer discrimination at a greater rate than their English-speaking counterparts. Indians and Sri Lankans are the most likely to list prejudice as the least desirable attribute of Australians.
The survey was completed by 2,324 respondents from range of backgrounds, including highly educated migrants, migrants with no post-school qualifications and a significant number who gained entry under the family migrations program.
Despite the sobering implications for Australia’s state of racial discrimination, only 4 per cent of the respondents indicated that they were dissatisfied with life in the “lucky country”.
Migrants that arrived between 2000 and 2010 reported a level of political involvement just half of the national average and watch slightly less news or current affair programs than the national average.
The last five years has seen several high-profile cases of violent discrimination against recent migrants and international students.
For example, a gang of racist youngsters nearly killed an Indian student in late 2009 during an armed rampage in a Melbourne grocery store selling goods from his home country.
The attack was followed by a series of attacks against Indian students in 2009 and the assault of Vietnamese 23-year-old international student, Minh Duong, in 2012, both in Melbourne.
This year, two teenage girls allegedly racially assaulted an Indigenous man on a Queensland bus, as documented by a saddening internet video that went viral.
Dr Pooja Sawrikar of the UNSW Social Policy Research Centre told Hijacked the findings are "not surprising at all" and highlight a lack of trust among Australia's migrant community.
“If you have not been welcomed when you first come, and feel judged and inferior and oppressed by a country that needs documentaries like Go Back to Where You Came From… then that tends to stay with you; it becomes the lens through which you make sense of all your future relationships," she says.
Dr Sawrikar says the attitudes of recent migrants are shaped by factors other than their circumstances upon arrival.
“Lack of trust in recent and established non-white migrant groups is not just due to political systems here – it is also related to cultural factors. For example, collectivist cultures value the family above all else, including intervention from the state.”
As for the million-dollar question – are white Australians a big old bunch of racists? – Dr Sawrikar gave a diplomatic yes and no response.
“White Australians can be racist, and policies in the past, like the White Australia Policy, have instigated and perpetuated this… [but] anyone in Australia can be racist."
The research was undertaken by Monash University and funded by the Federal Government and The Scanlon Foundation.
Kristen Daly
Image: Kristen Daly, Monash University alumni
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