many say that Oz isn't racist ---------- hmmm, this sounds...

many say that Oz isn't racist ---------- hmmm, this sounds pretty much like it to me

''I hated every day of school. It was the most awful experience. Every day there would be a racial challenge. Every day of school, somebody would call me a [racial slur]. They would pick a fight by telling me that my mother was Bigfoot, an ape or a gorilla.
I did OK at school, and you know, I wasn't an idiot, but it was just the most awful, horrible, lonely, miserable experience. We had a headmaster for much of my primary schooling who was just an overt racist, who was entirely happy to use nasty slang words to describe Aboriginal people.
The funny thing is that even though that school was located on lands of my language group — going back millennia — every day it was as though I had to beg permission to be allowed into a school built on my country.''


https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-05/louis-peachey-voice-indigenous-doctors/102905308


but, we can learn from this man and his experiences. If we want to

''But interestingly, the culture of medicine was something that I understood. In the second stanza of the Hippocratic Oath, it describes the relationship between teacher and pupil. What's described in the Hippocratic Oath, among my people, is known as the uncle-nephew relationship. And so, I got that. It made sense.
Our first liaison officer at medical school was a fabulous academic GP by the name of Dr Jill Gordon.
When I didn't understand something, I'd go to Jill and say, "I don't understand the histology", "I don't understand the physiology". She would then connect me to an appropriate person.
The cultural equivalent of what was happening is that I was going to my mother person — that was Jill, holding the role of my mother — and she would introduce me to uncles, holders of lore and of knowledge. And it was their responsibility to teach me that knowledge. And it was my responsibility to show them respect due to their position. So, I got that relationship.
These relationships Jill established for me in my first year of medicine took me the whole way through medical school. It was amazing, fabulous, to have access to all these nurturing people.
The irony is having grown up in a system that was overtly racist, to then find myself in the "whitest" institution on Earth where there were just incredible cultural similarities between the culture of medicine and my own people. And finding that there was a group of ostensibly old white men — and some women as well — who owed me nothing and gave me everything.''