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I knew it wouldn't be long before there would be some great spoofs of the stupid Australian Tourism ad out there. And frankly, it's well-deserved *lol* Got to love the Australian ability to take the p!ss out of all kinds of situations, including tourism and Cronulla. Laughter being the best medicine and all... (or else you'd probably scream a lot).
On a more serious note, however, or as serious as I can be for a Wednesday afternoon while I'm procrastinating and trying to not do the editorial I'm meant to be writing at the moment, isn't it a wee bit scary that Australia's becoming more blunt in its racism? Like, there's some stuff I've read recently on the Sydney Morning Herald blogs like Sam and the City that's like, "Oh, Asians are like this..." or "Greeks are like this..." and I'm sitting there thinking, "Good Lord, when did we suddenly start ethnically stereotyping people again in public? Isn't that something we were meant to get over?"
It's like racism has become more "popular" or "acceptable," which is a worry. There are way too many people out there who seem to think it's okay to discriminate against or put down people from backgrounds different to their own. All the "illegal" immigrant crud and "que-jumpers" and all of that rubbish, Cronulla riots, detention centres, media like Today/Tonight that has features on "the foreign invasion stealing Aussie jobs" (that was a couple of weeks ago and I almost died of fright when I heard the ad for the show as my racism-alert-o-meter went off the scale), etc, etc.
GRRR!
But yeah, the fake ad's funny :) And it would probably be far more appropriate than the current one by the AT... Well, in terms of honesty at least. Altho maybe not the dingo...
Also worth a lookie-lookie: SMH article on it.
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