Quote: Aaron @ July 18 2009, 11:57 PM BSTBecause they're the inoffensive 'easy targets' who won't bite back. And they're a bit "out of sight, out of mind" really, tucked over there at the side of this land mass with a relatively low population, and very little really commonly known about their traditional customs etc.
Thank you. I have an uncle from New Zealand and he gets the same thing from Australians.
Quote: AndreaLynne @ July 19 2009, 12:06 AM BSTThank you. I have an uncle from New Zealand and he gets the same thing from Australians.
New Zealanders, the only people on the face of the globe to sneer at Australians as being effete sophisticates...
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ July 18 2009, 11:03 PM BSTI think that applies to men too.
Only if it's women discussing the colour of a man's hair.
Or gays.
Quote: RubyMae - Glamourous Snowdrop at Large @ July 18 2009, 10:48 PM BSTit's mainly from an older generation who were raised in a society where that was considered acceptable by most so hopefully as another generation comes in, it won't be this bad.
Won't be as bad? This is 'our' generation's hang up. I'm speaking generally here, of course there are exceptions each way, but people of those 'older generations' aren't racist, they just don't consider, judge or assess things in the way we do. And good on them for it.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ July 18 2009, 11:20 PM BSTA race? They're not even human, like the Morlocks.
Quote: Timbo @ July 19 2009, 12:09 AM BSTNew Zealanders, the only people on the face of the globe to sneer at Australians as being effete sophisticates...
When did this whole "anti-ginger" thing start, even if it is just in jest? At school we never nastily taunted the kids with red hair merely because of their hair colour. On the contrary, girls with red hair were seen as quite sexy - possibly because of the character Ginger on Gilligan's Island or perhaps because they were generally very pretty. The only name-calling I recall at school was a red-haired boy being harmlessly nicknamed 'Carrot' and a very freckled red-haired girl being nicknamed 'Chook'.
I first became aware of ginger discrimination a few years ago via an episode of South Park, where Cartman was prejudiced gainst "gingers". A few weeks later, an English guy in the office was being taunted by a New Zealander because he had red hair.
Why on earth is red hair something to be mocked? Is it just because red-heads are a minority?
Quote: Timbo @ July 19 2009, 12:09 AM BSTNew Zealanders, the only people on the face of the globe to sneer at Australians as being effete sophisticates...
I've been sneered at in many countries, not just by New Zealanders, for being exquisitely effete and suavely sophisticated. Although perhaps I just come across as an unpleasantly smug wanker.