whilst I do believe some go over board and turn a tad racist, usually after having their fill of the amber stuff. I can't find anything racist in any of the responses. What a silly survey that would not be recognized anywhere by volume of respondents alone. 102 people????
These make great headline artcles and incite some pretty strong emotions from people.
The question is why are they trying to incite such things in the first place.
Yes...the flag is supposed to only be flown. However that concept went out of the window with sporting events such as the Olympics years ago.
We now have all manner of clothing etc displaying the Australian flag (ok...so it's made in China...it is our way of being multi cultural...after all if we didn't buy all those flags how many Chinese would be out of work?)
The below paragragh is about as dumb as anything I have read and yet appears to be the basis for calling those that have a flag on their car racist?
"Professor Fozdar said the team found that of the 102 people surveyed on the day who had attached flags to their cars for the national holiday, 43 per cent agreed with the statement that the now-abandoned “White Australia Policy” had “saved Australia from many problems experienced by other countries”. Aussie flag Does putting an Australian flag on your car mean you are racist? Yes"
because people believe having such a policy saved Australia from other countries problems isn't racist...it is a simple fact. Whether it was correct to have such a policy is a completely different debate.
A survey of 100 people and the top 5 responses were....
