I'm
sure Leonard Cohen would spend the next couple of
years working on this!
I
wonder if is it only me who feels this way?
I
just had to say something...
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 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, 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 vyeing with
the other for dominance of the next utterance: the chorus of interjection and
interruption gradually rising in a violent crescendo of raucous cackles
and ribald repost
Paralysed
and unable to participate, the bewildered newbies could only gawp in
shock!
Never
had they 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’,
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!
