Tony Abbott discusses asylum seeker policy on Sunrise. John Howard Children Overboard...remember this? The Chaser's War on Everything - Terrorist security response. Face the Facts - rightsED.
Multiple Cultures - Multiple Perspectives: Abstracts: Christoph Raetzsch. Cultural hybridity has been a term to describe societies that emerge from cultural contacts of European "explorers" and those "explored".
Instead of explaining these contacts as mere imposures of a major culture onto a minor culture, hybridity emphazises their mutual intermingling. According to Roland Barthes a "third language" evolves that is neither the one nor the other. This model of hybridity is still based on a contact between two partners at one time. But what happens to cultures if hundreds of them enter into a form of dialogue all at once? Most of our images of different peoples, places and events stem from the mass media. Marshal McLuhan described this cultural state as the "Global Village" where our senses would be short-circuited and closely related to a global consciousness. Close Up: Pauline Hanson on "no Muslims" Pauline Hanson won't sell her house to a muslim. Examples of Racist Material on the Internet.
Race Discrimination Unit, HREOC, October 2002 Contents 1.1 Websites 1.2 Computer Games 1.3 Racist Music: Publication, Merchandising and Recruitment 1.4 Open Publishing Sites 1.5 Interactive Mediums: Emails, Chat-rooms and Discussion-groups Introduction This paper examines the problem of racism on the Internet or "cyber-racism".
It illustrates the types of Internet material that are of concern to racial equality and human rights groups in this country and the international community. Cyber Racism Fact Sheet (2011) Cyber-racism and human rights Updated January 2011 1 What is cyber-racism?
2 How prevalent is cyber-racism? 3 Why is cyber-racism a human rights issue? 4 What can I do if I identify an instance of cyber-racism? 1 What is cyber-racism? Racism is a term used to describe: a belief that some races are inherently superior to others a belief that some groups of people are different and do not ‘fit’ into the ‘Australian way of life’ aggressive, abusive or offensive behaviour towards members of other races based on those beliefs. Racism can take many forms, ranging from abusive language to discriminatory treatment to violence motivated by race. When racism happens in the cyber-world it is known as cyber-racism. ^Top. Racism. No Way.: Cyber racism - Case studies. Cyber racism Case studies Case study 1: Offensive text messages at school A student at a Sydney school received comments in a text message from a fellow student about his lunch.
(To the effect of: leave your murt-a-bah at home). The Principal addressed this problem by initiating a Murt-a-bah day at school. The result was that the student regained a sense of pride in his national food and was made to feel good about bringing this food to school. Case study 2 - Misuse of technology (racist blog comments) Students were required to respond to the Prime Minister's apology to the Stolen Generations via a school blog-site for an English assignment.
Some students began to demonstrate a range of opinions on the issue. The English teacher responsible for the assignment was very concerned, and unsure as to what her responsibilities were in the situation. The school responded to the issue by: Removing content from the website and installing a more satisfactory moderation panel.