By Well this isn’t going to do much to change Australia’s perception of being a “racist country”:
James Anthony Dean-Willcocks, of Illawong, was yesterday charged with the murder of Magno Alvarado, 67.
Residents of Elouera Rd, Cronulla, told police of being woken about 5.30am on Saturday by a male yelling: “F … off back to Japan”.
[...]
Police will allege Dean-Willcocks was heard yelling “Ya Jap”.
Another described seeing Mr Alvarado tackled, “body-slammed” and punched many times.
One witness told police he yelled at Dean-Willcocks to stop and asked what he was doing.
“Mate, he’s Japanese and he deserves it,” the accused allegedly answered.
It is understood Mr Alvarado was Filipino. [Daily Telegraph]
James over at Japan Probe has netizen reaction from Japan that is as you would expect after an incident like this.
Australia is far from being a “racist country” because this guy is just one of a few bad apples that can cause Australia to look bad. Nevertheless I would love to hear what motivated this guy to want to murder a “Jap” because Australia’s media coverage of Japanese whaling is usually quite sensationalized and over the top.
1:35 pm on October 26th, 2009 1
OP:
Australia is far from being a “racist country” because this guy is just one of a few bad apples that can cause Australia to look bad.
I have a Japanese friend who lived in Australia for a year and she told me she felt the racist treatment she got was pretty bad. She didn't elaborate on it too much, but it was bad enough that it was the first thing that came out of her mouth about the country, and it made her never want to go back.
3:41 pm on October 26th, 2009 2
Indeed, racist attacks like that put into perspective what we deal with here.
Japan does play up the danger aspect of foreign countries, but when you see how casually people murder each other in places like Australia and the US, it's not hard to see why. I'll bet this case will get, what, a couple paragraphs on page 3 in their local papers? Nobody cares anymore that people go around killing each other.
9:42 pm on October 26th, 2009 3
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9:45 pm on October 26th, 2009 4
I know a Korean studied in New Zealand. He was beaten to a pulp in broad daylight for walking on the streets. Another one, a bunch of red necks drove by and threw trash at her. They were hooting and laughing. It's not safe for Asians to be walking in countries like that. I love how expats keep saying all Koreans are dangerous dirty filthy racists. But they'll be the first ones to say it's just one rotten apple when something like this happens to non whites in white countries. They have the answers and excuses for everything. Let's hear it.
10:07 pm on October 26th, 2009 5
I knew a guy who was an Aboriginal Australian. He never really was bothered by anyone because of it…but he'd been told once by a few "yobos" at a bar that he wasn't welcome there because they thought he was a foreigner (ie, Indian or Pakistani). How's that for irony?
12:46 am on October 27th, 2009 6
That Australian dude should be locked away and starved.
By expats, do you mean expat Indians, Africans and Thai's Tom? Expats in korea are not all the same Tom, but koreans are.
You koreans always go on about how all koreans are the same- blah, blah, blah their is no "we" or "I" in the korean language, blah, blah, blah-when it suits them, but when a non-korean is critical of korea or koreans you say you're all different. Which is it koreans?
Funny Tom, I once heard of a korean guest in NZ who stabbed his "white" teacher in the back for saying and doing nothing really bad at all.
As for the "Jap" killer, I'll use a korean excuse for this guy's behavior, an excuse I heard many time for the korean guest in NZ… he probably has mental problems, so you have to understand him.
Most koreans are for the most part racist Tom. You and other koreans may not like it, but there is ample proof. Everything from koreans going to the Philippines, opening a restaurant and refusing to serve any of the natives, to the way koreans treat biracial koreans in korea and in korean communities around the world.
Would a biracial korean like Hines Ward have had a better chance of making it big in korea or Australia Tom? I wonder.
How many refugees has korea accepted compared to Australia and other "white" countries Tom?
The last thing in the world a korean or Japanese person has the right to do is make judgements about recism in "white" countries.
You koreans and the Japanese are far worse. Again, look at the ACCEPTED treatment of mixed race peoples in said countries. Yeah, "white" counries are racist-now that's some real irony.
Measure the way Japan and korea treat their own biracial or not, born and raised there citizens and it's easy to see korea and Japan are far more racist than any of Tom's "white" countries.
To koreans and their apologists, try to answer the questions I asked.
Draft dodging gyopos need not reply.
9:54 pm on October 27th, 2009 7
When I was in Australia, Perth, I learned how to make sushi with a Japanese guy working in a Sushi bar.
I learned after I left the country, that the same guy had been stabed at a bus stop for not having cigarettes.
Now I'm wondering if it had any racial motivation.
I'm really wondering why people are that stupid.
3:03 am on October 28th, 2009 8
"They were hooting and laughing. It’s not safe for Asians to be walking in countries like that. I love how expats keep saying all Koreans are dangerous dirty filthy racists. But they’ll be the first ones to say it’s just one rotten apple when something like this happens to non whites in white countries. They have the answers and excuses for everything. Let’s hear it."
I just find it ironic that you're using very argument you condemn.