Comments on: Letter to John Safran: About the two-headed beast http://www.peril.com.au/2010-2011/edition9/letter-to-john-safran-about-the-two-headed-beast/ Sun, 22 Apr 2012 02:49:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Diane Wanasawage http://www.peril.com.au/2010-2011/edition9/letter-to-john-safran-about-the-two-headed-beast/comment-page-1/#comment-739 Diane Wanasawage Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:15:32 +0000 http://www.peril.com.au/?p=618#comment-739 This is a FANTASTIC piece and expresses much of what I think. Thanks Rosey for putting my experience on the web. It feels like it's been legitimised somehow. I hate being exoticised- I hate how it's just as superficial a judgement as traditional racism. Its still means that someone is being judged on how they look. And before we start thinking about how we all make judgments based on our looks, and the clothes we wear, there is a huge difference between judging someone on the clothes CHOICES they make and the SKIN they were BORN WITH. I'm glad someone is writing about this topic, because no-one talks about it, but anyone who was born in Australia to a NWB (non-white background) has experienced this. It's time to give people a clue about these things. This is a FANTASTIC piece and expresses much of what I think. Thanks Rosey for putting my experience on the web. It feels like it’s been legitimised somehow.

I hate being exoticised- I hate how it’s just as superficial a judgement as traditional racism. Its still means that someone is being judged on how they look. And before we start thinking about how we all make judgments based on our looks, and the clothes we wear, there is a huge difference between judging someone on the clothes CHOICES they make and the SKIN they were BORN WITH.

I’m glad someone is writing about this topic, because no-one talks about it, but anyone who was born in Australia to a NWB (non-white background) has experienced this. It’s time to give people a clue about these things.

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