Australia And The USA Have A Lot In Common
Australia looks like a cool place to live but it seems they have the same problem as we have here in America; an unfortunate learned trait that reeks of hate and ignorance. Kudos to the dude in this video for an awesome response to this lady. He could have just hit her upside the head with a boomerang but chose the high road instead. The only advice I can pass on to him is to video tape horizontally the next time.
Australia is a land of migrants over many years just like the United States but yet some people just don’t get it. Here’s what I found on the history of Australia.
From: Nation Online
In 1779 Joseph Banks recommended Botany Bay, named after the profusion of new plants found there, as a site for a penal settlement. A new outlet was needed for convicts to be transported overseas in continuance of British penal policy after the loss of the 13 North American colonies. In 1786 the British government decided to adopt Bank’s recommendation.
Considerations other than the pressing need to reduce the convict population may have influenced Lord Sydney, the home minister, in his action. There was, for example, some expression of interest in supplies for the Royal Navy and in the prospects for trade in the future. The first fleet in the series that transported convicts arrived in January 1788, bringing 1,500 people, nearly half of them convicts. On January 26, Captain Arthur Phillip of the Royal Navy raised the British flag at Sydney Cove, which he decided was preferable to Botany Bay, slightly to the south, as a settlement site. The colony of New South Wales was formally proclaimed on February 7, 1788.
Transportation of convicts eventually brought a total of about 160,000 prisoners to Australia. The initial character of a penal colony lasted for about 60 years in the areas of major original settlement. It ended in 1840 in New South Wales and in 1852 in Van Diemen’s Land (modern Tasmania), which became a colony in 1825. Western Australia, which was founded in 1830 by free immigrants, added convicts to its population by its own choice from 1850 to 1868. Convicts were not sent to South Australia, which became a colony in 1836.
So from the looks of it, Australia’s huge population is made of up of mostly of people from other parts of the world. Therefore, anyone who is not and Aborigine should be considered a foreigner. PERIOD. Maybe they should just build a wall around Australia and make the skaters pay for it.
