Anti-Social Toilet Manners - Ego or Cultural?

The two cases are probably unrelated but the journalist has put a negative spin to continue the derogation of immigrants. 

http://www.ausletters.blogspot.com/2012/01/migrants-body-odour-and-queue-jumping.html

Now, I am afraid that feminists might protest if signs have been installed in male or unisex toilets where seats are frequently wet by inaccurate aiming at the target. This is a serious issue which has been the cause of many family quarrels between husbands and wives as well as siblings. But in public places, no one knows who did it!   Ask anyone if this is unique to non-Australian culture, I fear not. 

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A UNIVERSITY is teaching migrant students how to use a toilet correctly after complaints from cleaners that they were leaving them in an unhygienic state.


The signs were installed 15 months ago after complaints from a company contracted to clean campus toilets.


http://www.heraldsun.com.au/lifestyle/the-other-side/macquarie-university-teaching-migrant-students-how-to-use-a-toilet-correctly/story-e6frfhk6-1226242767424

Why only confine to a certain university? These signs  and more should be displayed in all toilet cubicles all over the world to educate users and make the jobs of cleaners easier, or even save payroll expenses by hiring fewer cleaners!  

Australia's boat people - how it all began

The Brits were the first boat people who landed on Australian shores, greeted by the aboriginal people who gradually became less friendly when they realised their ancestral lands were being taken away while they go walkabout.

Another form of school grounds bullying - racism still rears its ugly head among Anglo-Australian youths

In the past, I thought there wasn't much that my acquaintance who champions equality in a multicultural society at workplace and schools has to work on to improve current environment which appears satisfactory to me.

While I sometimes hear of and bear witness to subtle discrimination, this piece of news bolsters the case of those who continue to champion equality that racism is more pervasive and widespread than is recognised. This is another manifestation of human rights abuse slipping pass the net of protective laws and unmonitored school bullying.

MORE than two-thirds of young people are the victims of racism at school,
with first-generation migrant women in years 11 and 12 most at risk.

A national study has found that racism permeates Australian schools,
with 80 per cent of secondary students from non-Anglo backgrounds and 55 per
cent of students from Anglo backgrounds saying they had experienced racial
vilification.

Interviews conducted with 900 secondary school students across
Australia also found Anglo-Australian youths displayed consistent prejudice
towards other cultural groups, particularly towards darker-skinned students from
places such as Africa and India.

Students who attended a Catholic school were 1.7 times less likely to report experiences of racism than students going to government schools.
Racism made students feel angry, depressed, increased headaches, muscle tension and made them not want to go to school, the study found.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/schools-a-hotbed-of-racism-study-20091118-imk8.html


This is a sad state of affairs. Discrimination which stem from prejudices are much more intractable especially if such perceptions are partly cultivated at home, in society and through sublimal messages on TV or private jokes. More appalling is the fact that some officials (these youths who grow up and graduate to take up appointments of responsibilities to the public) too hold such prejudicial and judgement views on the basis of race. It may not easy to convince them to change the mindset but there are avenues for the persistent to seek redress.