[War_ooc] Countries, timeline stuff, etc.

[Michael Downey]

Indeed, what we would think of highly developed countries experience
this type of problem. It's much more subtle here in Canada because we
tend to think of racism and ethnic/religious discrimination as an
'American' problem, but in reality it exists here as well and we like
to turn a blind eye to it.

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Daniel
Sanderson<dantheman2210 at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> That point sounds viable. I don't know how many of you are familiar with the
> news here in Australia, but we've got the racial tension happening already!
> One of Australia's biggest industries is education, we have thousands of
> overseas students come to Australia every year to study. Recently, there's
> been a spate of attacks on Indian students, which has resulted in calls from
> the Indian President and Prime Minister to ours, and resulted in our PM
> putting his recently-appointed National Security Advisor in charge of coming
> up with a solution (this is a brand new position, and probably not what NSAs
> in other countries would be put in charge of, but I guess the man needs
> somehting to do!). Now the Indians are fighting back in vigilante-type
> actions. And, of course, there's always been tension in parts of Sydney
> between people of Middle Eastern background versus dumb white surfer boys!
>
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