Australia has it’s issues, but America seems to have it a lot, lot harder. Which is odd because your country’s economy is more than 10x bigger than ours! I think the problems in the US have just spanned over so many generations and are so rooted in the culture it’s hard to be rid of. Aus is a relatively new country, and we’ve always been extremely multi-cultural. The issues we have pertaining to race seem to be more surface level, person A does this, so person B does that – things flare up here and there, but as they don’t really have roots anywhere the issues quickly dissipate.

The other thing I’ll just say blatantly – I’m Maori, therefore people assume I’m stupid (and violent). I’m sure other races have this issue as well. I think it’s a bit better now, but I don’t know. For eg. when I was in school, I was in the advanced math class and we had a substitute teacher, who obviously didn’t know the students. When she saw me she didn’t believe I was in the class – literally, and I was sent to the co-ordinators office for apparently lying to her. They both apologized and all that, but the stereotype – as I’m sure everybody’s aware of in fact – is that Maori’s are just big and stupid. Admittedly we are pretty big, but no, we’re not stupid. Like any other race, some of us are good at the STEM subjects, others are not. Some that are don’t let it be known though, sometimes because of outside factors, and like I said, sometimes it’s the culture itself that causes people to repress it.