aabne <dead@corpse.com> dixit:

>Here in Australia there were lebanese rape gangs on the loose 

Well, a couple of isolated incidents in Sydney. 

>and the  media was silenced. 

It was? For a silenced topic it got a hellava lot of coverage.

>The issue could not be reported correctly because 
>information about the ethnic background of the offenders was being 
>suppressed.

Is that what you mean by "silenced"? You wanted the shock jocks
to be yelling about wops and wogs? (like they did recently when one
of them referred to an Indonesian judge as "just down from the trees",
and was horrified that the judge "couldn't even speak English".)

>I like the Japanese attitude towards the Chinese. After that Chinese 
>crime incident (the murders), the Japanese government limited Chinese 
>visas to the country. In an western country that move would be 
>considered "racist".

Yes, because it was racist.

-- 
Jim Breen        http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia 
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