Racial Conflicts

1) Starting this past weekend, there were racial riots in Sydney, Australia.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/12/14/australia.racial.unrest.ap/index.html

It started when 2 Lebanese men attacked a white lifeguard at a Sydney beach. The Euro-Australians retaliated by attacking those who look Middle Eastern. Then the Middle Eastern youth fought back.

I remember reading in a newspaper that one of the white Australians said that all Middle Eastern people in Australia should go back to the Middle East. Nevermind that his ancestors from Europe stole Aborigine land in Australia.

It was only a few years ago, when the Aborigines rioted in Sydney in retaliation for a cop killing an Aborigine male.

Yet, Prime Minister John Howard is downplaying racial tensions in Australia?

I know that not all Australians are prejudiced, but those riots are proof that there is a racial conflict going on there.

2) In a recent post, I mentioned that Compton was once mostly-white, then mostly-black, and now a mostly Latino community.

Here is an article about the conflict between African Americans and Latinos in South Central LA. Very scary stuff

http://www.amconmag.com/2005/2005_12_19/cover.html

3) This past October, there was a riot in Birmingham, England.

This was started when a bunch of Pakistani males raped a Jamaican girl. This then lead to massive fights between Pakistanis and the African-Carribeans

http://www.guardian.co.uk/race/story/0,11374,1599126,00.html

4) So why I mentioning all this on the blog?

To let people be aware of what's happening, and how diversity has it's challenges. In a globalized world, a lot of people are migrating to different places. And when different groups meet in a certain places, some shallow knuckle-heads in each group will start some drama. Calming it down will take a lot of effort and dialogue