Flying aussie flags on your car means you are racist.

[TVR-190]

They are a regular sight across Perth as January 26 approaches - drivers flying Australia Day flags from their cars.
But the popularity of the annual trend might be about to fall, after research from the University of WA found drivers with Australia Day flags are likely to be more racist than those with un-adorned cars.
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UWA sociologist and anthropologist Farida Fozdar and a team of assistants surveyed 513 people at last year's Australia Day fireworks on the Swan River foreshore.
One in five said they had attached flags to their cars to celebrate Australia Day.
Professor Fozdar said 43 per cent of those with car flags said they believed the White Australia Policy had saved Australia from many problems experienced by other countries, while only 25 per cent without flags agreed.
And 56 per cent of people with car flags feared the Australian culture and its most important values were in danger, compared with 34 per cent of those without flags.
Professor Fozdar said 35 per cent of those with flags felt people had to be born in Australia to be truly Australian, while 23 per cent believed that true Australians had to be Christian, compared with 22 per cent and 18 per cent respectively for the non-flag group.
"Very clear statistical differences in attitudes to diversity between those who fly car flags and those who don't, show that flag waving − while not inherently exclusionary – is linked in this instance to negative attitudes about those who do not fit the 'mainstream' stereotype'," she said.
She said the research also revealed clear differences in how people with car flags felt towards minority groups.
Those with the flags were less likely to feel positive towards Aboriginals, Muslims, asylum seekers and Asians in Australia, the research found.
"And an overwhelming 91 per cent of people with car flags agreed that people who move to Australia should adopt Australian values, compared with 76 per cent of non-flaggers," Professor Fozdar said.
A total of 55 per cent believed migrants should leave their old ways behind, compared with 30 per cent of those without flags.
Professor Fozdar said there was no clear link between education, gender, ethnicity, citizenship, voting pattern or income and flag flying, although her survey showed a slightly higher likelihood of younger rather than older people adopting the practice.
"In terms of nationalism, 88 per cent of those with Australia Day car flags said they thought it showed they were proud to be Australian, while only 52 per cent of those without flags thought so," she said.
"Some thought the increased popularity of flying Australia Day car flags was due to increased patriotism while others said it was simply peer pressure to follow the trend or avoid seeming unpatriotic.
"What I found interesting is that many people didn't really have much to say about why they chose to fly car flags or not."
Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan weighed into the debate today, saying he wouldn't fly flags on his car as they were "distracting."
“I don’t know that it necessarily means that people are racist. I think what it probably means is people are very enthusiastic about Australia Day,” he said.

Oh well I can live with being a racist then.

[Troy711]

Does that make Julia Gillard a racist too?

[Troy711]

RACIST!!!!



Haha.

[TVR-190]

Its ok your accusations cant hurt her through an armoured stato.

[CLUBSPORT#325]

Racist ftw.

[Ghost]

Tvr If I had a gun I'd shoot her

[hakhawk]

Its ok your accusations cant hurt her through an armoured stato.

nade under the chassis, i doubt they went far enough to protect that

[detox_nath83]

F*ck this Country. im over the sh*t turning into a prison.... what are they doing to us???

[Troy711]

That pic I posted is Good Boy Johnny btw.

[Sabbath']

Does this mean that people who fly German flags are more likely to be White Supremacists?

[Jonah 101]

I'v heard what been going on in aussie with muslims. Its a long read.

LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER GILLARD.

No wonder Australians are branded "racist".

[Troy711]

Response to David Harrison « you said it…

[vr94ss]

It does seem to me to be a bogan trend. I think the polled answers are telling. I know I'm an Aussie in Australia, I don't need to fly a flag to prove it or feel the need to show it as almost everyone else here is also Australian. Are flag fliers even more Australian? Pointless, we're getting as bad as the yanks with overblown ridiculous patriotism. Yeah, I think it's stupid.

[aaronevolution]

This country was built by convicts. What do they expect? If they don't like it maybe they should #### off. People's opinions in this country are starting to shit me. Everyday you turn on the news and someone is whining because someone said something about someone else.

[SM1D3Y]

Iv seen people of all nationalities with those flags on their cars, are they all racist ?? Must have been a slow news day today

[aaronevolution]

It does seem to me to be a bogan trend. I think the polled answers are telling. I know I'm an Aussie in Australia, I don't need to fly a flag to prove it or feel the need to show it as almost everyone else here is also Australian. Are flag fliers even more Australian? Pointless, we're getting as bad as the yanks with overblown ridiculous patriotism. Yeah, I think it's stupid.

Too right. I have no need to fly a stupid flag. I know where I live.

[Jonah 101]

Response to David Harrison « you said it…

Two sides to every story eh.

[HSVSENATORVY]

People just bitch about the smallest things we all say... get over it!!! we fly our flag they fly there's who the hell cares there flags if you take the colour out there just bits of cloth... and this nit wit of a brain doctor "we should be more kind to the boat people" stuff him he should look how all the tax payers money pays for all there shit when they get here and now they want to change the law to suit them and how the older people in this country don't get near what they get just because there affraid of there old home they can suck my D#%K!!! i'm a Aussie

[HSVSENATORVY]

nade under the chassis, i doubt they went far enough to protect that

oh that thing is decked out you could set a 10kg ied off under that and they would still be all good inside. 3inchs of rhs and 5inchs of shadder prof glass it would take a beating

[stockyvrcalais]

i will have a flag flying from all four windows.....guess im racist

[Jonah 101]

"Im not racist, Im right!"

[showbags]

Meh, I classify these flags in the same category as reindeer antlers.

[c2105026]

The OP suggested 'more likely' to be racist. Its not cut and dry, black and white.....even non-flag fliers showed some potentially racist undertones.

[[jonnoo]]

If thats racism tere is really no hope for Australia

[Jonesy484]

OOOOOps im Racist, and i will very racist tomorrow as i will be flying 3 flags and a southern cross