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Australia and anti-Indian violence

economist.com

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I live in Australia too and don't deny that there are some racist people here, like other countries. But it's one thing to hold those views and another to attack someone because of their race.

In the three incidents mentioned in the article, there is no evidence the perpetrators were racially motivated. The first incident was robbery, for the other two there is no mention of who the assailants were and what their motive was.

There are many more East Asians (Chinese, Malaysians, Vietnamese, Indonesians etc) in Australia than Indians, it would be interesting to know why they are not being affected by this alleged racism, or if they are why they are being silent about it.

Arrest the assailants and interrogate them.

>Arrest the assailants and interrogate them.

I agree. Curiously, a lot of people I know (Indians all of them), held the opinion that Australia was an extremely racially biased country, much before these attacks started getting publicized so widely. Must have something to do with that extremely controversial Indian cricket teams tour of Australia, I guess.

Yes, when viewed through the prism of our our national cricket team's 'play for keeps' approach, we can appear to be aggressive hot-heads. However, what is considered acceptable on the sports field is not generally approved of elsewhere!

In my city there are many people from Southern and Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa, as well as us Anglos. It's a pretty relaxed and friendly place.

This whole "anti-indian australian violence" is so stupid that only really naive people can take it seriously.

FYI there were 14 attacks on Indians living in Australia in the past 6 weeks. Or do you intend to mean that such frequent attacks are just usual stuff in Australia??? In either case, I doubt it is stupid.

EDIT: I am Indian. I do not live in Australia. All I know is obtained from the Indian news media.

14 over the past 6 weeks? Could you point me to a source please?

Correction make that 20 in 4 weeks.

Source: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Features/Indian-techies-...

What is most disturbing is the attackers in atleast three cases have been kids aged about 15.

I'm Australian and the last I heard about this story (from radio news yesterday) was that New Delhi sent a group of reporters to Australia to interview the victims, police and the authorities about the situation. The head of this group told Triple-J news that in general there did NOT seem to be racial motivations behind the attacks. Official figures also do not show an abnormally high proportion of Indian students being attacked.

Yes there are some racist and intolerant people around but it's not the endemic situation being portrayed by the Indian students.

Well, Australia got rid of guns and now people are getting attacked with screwdrivers. Are they going to ban screwdrivers too?

Britain was going to ban samurai swords because of increase sword attacks after their gun ban. (http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2237699...)

When will governments realize that people (not guns) kill people.

Would the same thing have happened if the hoodlums knew that their victims could have legally been concealing a firearm? Maybe, maybe not, but we'll never know because it was one protection that the two Indian men were not afforded.

This is the worst argument I've ever heard. The notion that robbery only happens because the victims aren’t carrying guns is just rubbish. If the victims carry guns the assailants will carry bigger guns, or possibly escalate the situation in other ways. The removal of guns is not going to stop crime and everybody knows this, it is to help reduce the fatality rate. Your argument is hardly relevant to the article I suggest you go on your pro-gun tirade where guns are the issue.

Would the same thing have happened if the hoodlums knew that their victims could have legally been concealing a firearm?

Yes. Such deterrents don't work.

> When will governments realize that people (not guns) kill people.

I hate to be suckered into this sort of useless debate, but you should at least bit a little honest here. Guns don't kill people, people _with guns_ kill people...

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