The Character of a City

http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2011/01/23/the-character-of-a-city/#comment-348651

I chose this blog in reference to the racism and classism we have been discussing in class. This blog talks about the racism and classism that is still seen today in Australia. It opened my eyes to the fact that racism and classism are world wide issues and they do not solely occur in the United States. I feel like there is a big push within our society to speak of racism and classism two-sidedly, which is great. However, I feel by focusing only on our own countries racist and classist habits is a biased notion in itself. So while we are aiming to not discriminate within our own country, we are discriminating against other countries.

The one thing that stood out to me in this article was the talk about Australian day.
       "For me, personally, the hardest time for living in this country is 26 January. Australia Day is the anniversary of the First Fleet’s arrival: the beginnings of the colony of New South Wales. Australia Day is known also as Invasion Day. It’s a day on which it’s popular to dress up in clothes with Australian flags on them, and to use Australian flags as capes. I am scared to go outside on 26 January because I know that racist feeling is running high (‘we grew here, you flew here’)."

The statement that I highlighted really stood out to me because it made it real to me that racism is in fact bigger than the United States....it is everywhere.

-Sadie Little