Examples for Tomorrow.

[ngRISING]

put together a short document with the examples mentioned recently on this section of VCENOTES.

Enjoy. if you have others, post them up and i'll add it in.

goodluck

edit.please msg me for the links.

[lynt.br]

Discriminatory Language - nG RISING
"Anybody else around here?... Ah, our little Paki friend, Ahmed." - Prince Harry
Taken from Herald Sun 21/08/09

I don't think this was in an Australian context (which makes me wonder why they chose it as stimulus material). Unfortunately, all examples need to be taken from contemporary Australian society which really blows because this rules out a lot of excellent examples.

[ngRISING]

I believe we are in danger of being swamped by Asians. Between 1984 and 1995, 40 % of all migrants coming into this country were of Asian origin. -Pauline Hanson. would that be considered as discrimatory language?

[appianway]

No, but it's a racist view. You could talk about how the view is reflected in the language.

[ngRISING]

so i would write something along the lines of
the presentation of her facts using end focus of her fact '40% of all migrants coming into this country into this country were Asian origin' to put emphasis on that point as well as her dysphemistic term danger which means potential harm to make her point seem more of a threat. She also uses a personification of 'swamped' to refer to Asians migrating which is offensive to the Asian audience or anyone against racism. Her lexical choice of Asian also indicates that she is racist because she pointed out 40% of them were Asians however did not point out any other race.

?

[lynt.br]

Bit off topic but Don Watson is as I am typing this being interviewed on the Business Channel.

[ngRISING]

foxtel? atm?  NNOOOO I DNT HAVE FOXTEL

[BiG DaN]

anyone got examples about the racist thing on hey hey its saturday with harry conick jr?

[sherry04]

hey what has don watson got to do with the stimulus material in english langauge?? so confused what did he doo??

[lukeperry91]

"I believe we are in danger of being swamped by Asians. Between 1984 and 1995, 40 % of all migrants coming into this country were of Asian origin. -Pauline Hanson. would that be considered as discrimatory language?"

How is this racist?

[appianway]

so i would write something along the lines of
the presentation of her facts using end focus of her fact '40% of all migrants coming into this country into this country were Asian origin' to put emphasis on that point as well as her dysphemistic term danger which means potential harm to make her point seem more of a threat. She also uses a personification of 'swamped' to refer to Asians migrating which is offensive to the Asian audience or anyone against racism. Her lexical choice of Asian also indicates that she is racist because she pointed out 40% of them were Asians however did not point out any other race.

?

The statement itself isn't explicitly racist, but carries racist undertones because the lexeme 'danger' infers that there's something negative about having a high asian population. I wouldn't use this as an example of discriminatory language, but rather, I'd use it as an example to establish that racist views exist. You'd then have to find other utterances from Hanson (or the one nation party) to show the selection of politically incorrect lexemes. On the other hand, you could make a mention that the terms she uses are politically correct, despite the taboo nature of her utterance.

[lukeperry91]

What if they were white Asians from Russia?

[lynt.br]

anyone got examples about the racist thing on hey hey its saturday with harry conick jr?

That wasn't really racist/discriminatory language. It was more just racist (or perceivably racist) behaviour.

[lukeperry91]

And why isn't an overflow of any sort of immigrant a 'danger' to our culture?

[enwiabe]

What if they were white Asians from Russia?

I will ask you to cease turning this thread into a debate. These students are stressed out and looking for some last minute help before their exam tomorrow. I ask that you stop making life difficult. Feel free to continue this debate in OGD after the exam.