I have been watching this thread but loathe to participate - as most people have set ideas that a few scant lines will never change.
But, falling into temptation, I must say something as I do not want to remain silent on a topic that is important to me.
I am very sensitive to racism, (hence my early postings about my experiences directly related to the coronavirus) as I hate such a WRONG way of living, a wrong way of treating fellow human beings. I have hated many specific people of diverse colour, country, region, ethnicity. But each due to what that individual person was like. I have been exposed to situations where certain ethnic types had a predominance of characteristics or behaviours that could easily lead one into becoming "racist". But I beat all that.
I have enjoyed a varied past - everything from going to school with aboriginal kids to working with ethnic minorities in far away countries. I have seen true racism in many of those places, as racism is an entrenched part of human life.
But to anyone who dares suggest that "Australia is a racist country", I call you out as someone without a clue. We are very big on racism, but in the sense that we are so very sensitive to it. Not because "we" are racist. But because we have the affluence and decency to hone in on and try to stamp out this. As has been posted, we are a nation of multitudes of racial backgrounds.
If you want to actually see and experience real racism, then travel. Not for a holiday. Go and do what I and many others have and actually try to become part of a foreign society. The most intense racism I have ever seen was while working amongst the Negro communities in the jungle on the Pacific coast of Colombia. They hate every single person, instantly, who is not of their creed. be it a slightly-white Colombian or someone like me who was a foreigner. Their most intense hatred is of the native indians that also still exist there. Real racism. To the point of sporadic "ethnic cleansing".
Australia the most racist society? Complete and unfair and unhelpful trash thinking....
Did i reveal some emotion here?