tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post109308929966411186..comments2024-03-25T19:48:24.624+11:00Comments on Oz Conservative: Does appearance count?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-61404746319834708762007-01-28T06:00:00.000+11:002007-01-28T06:00:00.000+11:00All things foreign hit the subconscious with micro...<i>All things foreign hit the subconscious with microshocks and produce feelings of tiredness.</i><br /><br />Anonymous, I know that I never really relax into a sense of home in the more multiracial of Melbourne's suburbs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-69626013210330559882007-01-28T00:20:00.000+11:002007-01-28T00:20:00.000+11:00Sydney's Lebanese/Arab boys have taken to haircuts...Sydney's Lebanese/Arab boys have taken to haircuts which differentiate themselves even further from the main - shaved at the sides and long at the back. It seems a visual expression of emotional separation. But it just widens the gap even further.<br /><br />A multiracial town is naturally a tense town. But with the addition of visual separation in the form of haircuts, arab beards, hijabs, and burqas, the separation is complete.<br /><br />All things foreign hit the subconscious with microshocks and produce feelings of tiredness and nausea. It's visual assault. Not only do we not celebrate this diversity, we don't get used to it.<br /><br />I want all the public "marks of separation" banned i.e. foreign languages, dress, appearance, music. Follow the Tunisian government and rip off the hijab. At least for newborns and new immigrants, if not for everyone.<br /><br />I think European and Asian migration stretched people's tolerance to its limits. But Muslim and black African immigration of late has overstepped the tolerance of many folk. Visually, they're incompatible.<br /><br />Only when we look and sound reasonably similar do we have half a chance of getting along.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com