tea berry-blue

I must say, I'm very impressed with your knowledge on world history! You're even aware of the Boer War! I figured the only reason we learned about that (in both English and History classes) in school was because the British recruited Australians for it. You're making me wish we'd learned more of the trade type policies as well as the racism and wars we were introduced to. Because, honestly, racism and war seemed to be the major issues we focused on in our history classes... except, of course, racism in Australian law. As I said to whirled in one of her early Idol posts, I wasn't even aware of the White Australia Policy until then. The closest we got to learning about racism in Australian history was Aboriginal slaughtering upon settlement and the British hating the Chinese during the gold rushes - all of which was pre-1901. I suppose our history might not have been "as bad" as black slavery, apartheid in South Africa (which ended later than Australia's racist policies), or the Holocaust, but don't you think we should've still been made aware of our own country's inherited racism? Instead of focusing on the boring crap we did learn about?