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Found another one in tlr
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/oregon-was-founded-as-a-racist-utopia.319221/
Australia should have every sanction possible help up against it, but nope; white supremacy.
Australia's Secret History as a White Utopia
The Formal Assembly of a White Utopia
Australia became its own country–a commonwealth of the British Empire much like Canada and New Zealand–in 1901. And with that came the formalization of racist immigration policies that would shape the country’s population for the next 70 years.
The first Act passed by Australia’s first parliament was the Immigration Restriction Act of 1901. When the act was initially proposed it was very explicit in its exclusion of all people of color from Australia. But some saw this outright racism as detrimental to Australia’s trade relations with its neighbors to the north–especially the Empire of Japan. Japan would repeatedly complain about the great indignity of being called an inferior race by the Australian government, and the Act did indeed harm relations between the two countries for generations to come.
As a compromise on the Immigration Restriction Act, the new Australian government instituted a 50-word dictation test to determine who would be allowed into Australia. The test was based largely on a method already being employed in South Africa. It could be given in any European language, which meant that if a Chinese immigrant passed the test in English, administrators could give it again in French, whereupon the potential immigrant would be denied entry to Australia.
One of the more interesting things about the implementation of the White Australia Policy in the first decade of the 20th century is that it actually angered the Brits. Excluding subjects of the Crown such as Indians from emigrating to Australia on the basis of race was seen as an affront to the British Empire. But the dictation test allowed Britain to tolerate Australia’s racist immigration policies. After all, if Australia wanted only literate people to immigrate, that was up to them. It wasn’t as if they were excluding people based solely on race.
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I was a huge Crocodile Hunter fan when I was a kid.
Australians should not be allowed TV
None of them actually
Found another one in tlr
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/oregon-was-founded-as-a-racist-utopia.319221/
Australia should have every sanction possible help up against it, but nope; white supremacy.
Australia's Secret History as a White Utopia
The Formal Assembly of a White Utopia
Australia became its own country–a commonwealth of the British Empire much like Canada and New Zealand–in 1901. And with that came the formalization of racist immigration policies that would shape the country’s population for the next 70 years.
The first Act passed by Australia’s first parliament was the Immigration Restriction Act of 1901. When the act was initially proposed it was very explicit in its exclusion of all people of color from Australia. But some saw this outright racism as detrimental to Australia’s trade relations with its neighbors to the north–especially the Empire of Japan. Japan would repeatedly complain about the great indignity of being called an inferior race by the Australian government, and the Act did indeed harm relations between the two countries for generations to come.
As a compromise on the Immigration Restriction Act, the new Australian government instituted a 50-word dictation test to determine who would be allowed into Australia. The test was based largely on a method already being employed in South Africa. It could be given in any European language, which meant that if a Chinese immigrant passed the test in English, administrators could give it again in French, whereupon the potential immigrant would be denied entry to Australia.
One of the more interesting things about the implementation of the White Australia Policy in the first decade of the 20th century is that it actually angered the Brits. Excluding subjects of the Crown such as Indians from emigrating to Australia on the basis of race was seen as an affront to the British Empire. But the dictation test allowed Britain to tolerate Australia’s racist immigration policies. After all, if Australia wanted only literate people to immigrate, that was up to them. It wasn’t as if they were excluding people based solely on race.
____
I was a huge Crocodile Hunter fan when I was a kid.
Australians should not be allowed TV
None of them actually