Welcome to Australia!
What is it about white culture? We don't seem to know how to talk to people and make them feel welcome...
I was at a migrant function today organized by a noble white person who wanted to welcome some Brazilians recently arrived to Australia.
I managed to start a few conversations only to have every one them violently interrupted by interjections from white people with wolf-like expressions and massive rows of false teeth- all determined not let me finish my sentence.
I looked around and it was happening everywhere: like cannibals they were doing the same thing to each other.
Some conversations were started, interrupted and then restarted: most were never finished..
The bewildered Brazilians could only gawp in fascination as …
the whites moved to the table settling themselves like a group of Gallahs shouting at each other and interrupting each other: each vying with the other for the next utterance: the chorus of interjection and interruption gradually rising in a violent crescendo of raucous cackle and ribald repost
Paralysed and unable to participate, the bewildered newbies could only gawp in shock!
Never had I seen such loneliness, such angst, such pain, such denial… dressed up and drenched in such a cacophony of noise. It was truly terrifying!
I escaped and sat apart in my despair– conspicuous by my rudeness.
Do you want to be part of this? said the noble lady with a kindly but sheepish look.
‘No thanks, I said, and I furiously wheeled my facebook posts on my phone in a vain attempt to look as if I had something important to find..
Welcome to Australia!
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