Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20150801001005/@comment-26397825-20150810034947

Huh. Topographically, what you have sounds quite a bit like what we have. The northern parts of Australia (near the equator) are really hot, and humidity is a major thing on the coasts. And then if you go inland you get dry heat. On the other hand, the further south you go, the colder it is. Tasmania is technically inside the Antarctic Circle, so it's cold down there all year round, even in summer.

However, I will admit that most of Australia is what they call casually racist - we don't even think about it, racist remarks tend to just come out. Though there are quite a few people who are actualy racist as well, and aren't afraid to be absolute dicks to everyone not born in Australia. We are a culturally diverse nation, but the Australian-born people are more than just a bit agressive in their words towards immigrants. And it's not just the white people either - Aboriginals love using the perks they get as 'natives' to do what they like and when a police officer tries to do something about it, they pull the racism card. And then there's the way they treat everyone who isn't Aboriginal...Yeah, okay. England came in and wiped a large pile of them out and set up land, but that doesn't mean they can treat every single person - even those who aren't related in any way to the English - like absolute shit, and use the system the English government set up to get all the benefits and perks they want.

I once had a lady come through my work and give me this whole spiel about how she was an eighth generation Australian, and we should just kick out the people who weren't born here and stop letting the Chinese run our government. I wasn't about to get into an argument with her about how our government doesn't need the Chinese to screw us over - we do it quite fine by ourselves, and that Australia is meant to be built upon multiculturalism. Meant to be.

Urgh. I hate talking about politics and economy.