Asians need only to apply.
July 24th, 2008
An advert in today’s (24/07/08) St George and Sutherland Shire Leader:
Production Workers
Enthusastic/reliable people for ongoing production/assembly roles
within the Automotive industry in Hurstville area.
You will be required to use hand tools/electric scre driver. Exciting
advancement opportunities within the firm if mutally agreed goals are
met. Good communication skill. Asian language required, preferably Chinese/Vietnamese.
hasmot06@gmail.com
Feel free to email ‘hasmot06′ and let him/her know how racist their advert is. Also see my post on the Asianisation of the Shire.
The ad doesn’t say that the applicant must be Chinese/Vietnamese. You could apply Darrin if you spoke one of those languages. Ability to speak those languages is a skill, not a racial attribute. Just as ability to use chopsticks is a skill, not a racial attribute. Reading this and your Asianisation of Sutherland post has led me to believe you have no idea what “racist” means. You throw the term at other people willy-nilly but deny it on your own part.
Why would somebody spend time and money to learn an Asian language just to get a factory process worker job in Australia? The advert, in asking for Asian speakers is clearly looking to only employ Asians.
“Why would somebody spend time and money to learn an Asian language just to get a factory process worker job in Australia? The advert, in asking for Asian speakers is clearly looking to only employ Asians.”
Er, no it doesn’t. If the advertisement was asking for someone who spoke French, you probably wouldn’t have a problem. I have to point out that your actions, such as trying to get people to email this person and tell him ‘how racist he is’, appear to be more racist then the actions of the person who posted the advertisement.
Wrong. It asks for Asian speakers. Kevin Rudd could apply for the job if he got sick of being the prime minister.
Why would someone spend time and money learning any language? Because its a skill – one that can give you an advantage in a number of spheres (employment being one of them apparently). I have a mate who lives in Spain and got a job at a firm that required him to be able to speak English. Its the way of the world – people trade on a global scale now and they need employees who are multi-lingual. Notice the ad itself is in English?
Get a grip.
No Australian is going to spend time learning an Asian language just to get a job as a process worker.
Kevin Rudd will see to it that the Asianisation of Australia moves along as fast as possible, being the sinophile that he is.
The job obviously involves communicating with foreign-speaking customers Darrin. I don’t know why on earth you have a problem with this person wanting staff who will be able to communicate with them. Again: the ad is in English – so the successful applicant must be bi-lingual.
Why no comment on the Spanish example I provided?
Did you read the ad?, they are to be working on the assembly line and are probably having to communicate with other assembly line workers who cannot speak English either. That the advert being in English has no significance. It also does not state that the person is to be bi-lingual, it clearly states the person must speak an Asian language. The Spanish can do whatever they like, it’s their country.
“It also does not state that the person is to be bi-lingual, it clearly states the person must speak an Asian language”
If the ad is in one language and calls for the applicant to speak another, of course the applicant will be bi-lingual. If they can’t speak an Asian language they don’t get the job, if they can’t speak English, they don’t know to apply for the job in the first place. Logic 101.
“Did you read the ad?”
Yes – it says that there are “Exciting advancement opportunities within the firm”. So I doubt they want to hire someone who speaks two languages to while away their life on a production line forever.
Its not just in Spain that private companies (who can hire whoever they want I’ll remind you) seek English speaking applicants. It happens all across Europe and in Asia.
This whole story is such a non-issue and your heading “Asians need only to apply” is plain incorrect.
In case you haven’t noticed, we happen to live IN ASIA. We are surrounded by Asian nations. We aren’t in Europe, you moron. This attitude that the ‘austrayian’ way of life must be protected and preserved from ‘those asians’ is absolutely idiotic. This is where we live, if you don’t like it move to a nice, cushy, white only region. Just so you remember, Europeans immigrated here, and now Asian people have.
Also, that article never said “asians only apply”. I happen to know white people who speak Mandarin as they see it as a skill because China happens to be a global superpower. LOGIC!
No, no we do not “happen to live in Asia”, Australia is not part of Asia. Australia “happens” to be in Oceania, a geographic region between Asia and the Americas. Go learn some geography before you start throwing around the word “moron”.
Oh, sorry, I thought that living directly below Papua New Guinea which is generally described as an Asian nation meant that we might feel more of a sense of responsiblity to Asia than to Europe, considering that if you want to get pedantic they are some of our closest neighbours. But here I am thinking that LOCATION IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN SKIN COLOUR, you redneck.
PNG is also part of Melanesia [ a sub-region of Oceania ]. The common ( but mistaken ) belief that we’re are part of Asia is nothing more than Establishment lies to assist their program of Asianisation.
I’d suggest that unless you are in posession of information that irrefutably points to an official policy of “Asianisation” on the part of “the establishment”, that you stop throwing the term around. It makes you sound like nothing more than a paranoid redneck Darrin.
You’d be just as up in arms if an apartment block full of PNG-ians was built on your street – and PNG is part of Oceania.
You are a racist – plain and simple. You can try (as you have) to hide behind labelling Asianisation a process rather than a person and draw the false conclusion (as you have) that therfore its nothing to do with racism, but you’re not fooling anyone.
You may like to read this: Asianisation of Australia
I said
“information that irrefutably points to an official policy of “Asianisation” on the part of “the establishment”
Not
“Your own subjective summing up of a situation based on the selective use of data and subsequent assumptions and conclusions drawn”
I’ve already read that silly essay Darrin. You are going to take a flogging come election time – I guarantee it.
Hey Darrin, I noticed that the “Asianisation of the Shire” link you post redirects to a 404 error page. Maybe you can upload it again, I’d like to have another read of it and I’m sure there’s many who haven’t seen it yet.
http://www.darrinhodges.com/2008/07/13/the-asianisation-of-the-sutherland-shire/