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dreamer_easy) wrote2007-08-17 10:42 am
dreamer_easy) wrote2007-08-17 10:42 am
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Pauline Hanson wants Muslim immigration stopped, and claims she's had calls from many Australians who are "very frightened their culture and way of life is being taken away from them".
My first impulse is an exasperated laugh. But my second one is to wonder if people really are frightened, and if so, why they feel they are losing their way of life, even though that fear isn't realistic: the English language and the Easter hols are quite intact. (In the US I've encountered people very upset about information being provided in Spanish as well as English.)
In not entirely unrelated news, Baxter Detention centre is closing.
My first impulse is an exasperated laugh. But my second one is to wonder if people really are frightened, and if so, why they feel they are losing their way of life, even though that fear isn't realistic: the English language and the Easter hols are quite intact. (In the US I've encountered people very upset about information being provided in Spanish as well as English.)
In not entirely unrelated news, Baxter Detention centre is closing.