Feeling ashamed to be an Australian
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As reported on NEWS.com today. This sort of thing gets me really angry and makes me feel ashamed to be Aussie. This girl was the only child of parents who had already lost everything in the earthquake and now have to face the grief of losing their daughter. I hope the guy goes down for it, but with the Australian justice system the worst sentence won't be much.
Sydney student Liao 'Elva' Wei died for $200
Last hours ... Chinese student Liao 'Elva' Wei, 18, and her boyfriend Chris Han endured an hour of sexual assault before the balcony fall that killed Ms Wei and seriously injured Mr Han.
A KNIFE-wielding bandit who subjected a group of students to an hour-long rape ordeal had gone to a unit to rob them - and escaped with less than $200.
Chinese student Liao "Elva" Wei, 18, died and her boyfriend suffered serious injuries when they fell naked from their third-floor balcony in a desperate bid to escape their attacker, The Daily Telegraph reports.
The man forced four terrified occupants of the Sydney apartment to strip at knifepoint in their living room before holding them for an hour, repeatedly sexually assaulting two of them as the others were forced to watch.
Police believe they are hunting a deviant whose "opportunistic" attempts at robbery led to one of the most sickening home invasions they have encountered.
His main target was Ms Wei, 18, a bubbly and well-liked student whose parents lost their home and all their belongings in the China earthquake earlier this year.
Ms Wei died when she and her Korean boyfriend Tae Wook "Chris" Han, 19, made the decision to flee their captor in Sunday's attack - and instead fell 25m on to concrete outside their Waterloo apartment.
Mr Han, a popular student at the same Waterloo college his girlfriend attended, landed feet-first, shattering his legs, pelvis and suffering spinal injuries.
He has been speaking to detectives between surgeries.
Detectives are treating the crime as opportunistic, as it emerged the man who followed a female visitor into the security unit block held a knife to her throat when the lift reached the victims' floor.
He demanded money and she handed over a small amount she had on her.
"We believe he got away with less than $200," homicide Detective Inspector Russell Oxford said.
Sometimes the same is different, but mostly, it's the same.
Amory
Re: Feeling ashamed to be an Australian
First of all, the media always makes things sound worse or better than they really are. So I would take what that article (or any article for that matter) says with a grain of salt.
Also, we all remember the Chinese guy who attacked and killed an old foreign couple that were touring the Bell Tower in Beijing, during the Olympics.
Every country has it's flaws and it's convincts. It's life. There's nothing to be ashamed of.
Cheer up panda bear, it gets better.
"It's not looking good for our heroes..."
taoqibao
Re: Feeling ashamed to be an Australian
Yet another horrible story from planet earth.
How bad is the Australian justice system? If they get the guy, surely he'd get 20 years!?
And why does this story make you feel ashamed to be an Australian?
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
- VP
taoqibao
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And if you Australians really want to feel ashamed of something, shouldn't it be the horrid vegemite sandwich!!!???
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
- VP
CyniCritic
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Yeah you should feel ashamed cause this kind of stuff never happens anywhere else in the world
bobby_liu
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maybe it's not local australians did it.
maybe it was foreign losers like potjuana did it - they are profesional on it.
and...for the assult details...to be honest, it's kind of sexy!! haha
dont sh*t me for saying that...
and finally of cource, my condolence!!!
yellow1
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Damned meth heads!
I feel good about the fact the police are being very quick, and very thourough in their investigations.
Shows that the straight (as in non drug-addled) Aussies DO care, and makes me alittle proud of them.
I hope the guy who survived realises that we really do care, as obviously normal Aussies came to his, and his girlfriends, aid while the coppers and ambos were on the way, and remembers them, not the meth head loony!
taoqibao
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Top Ten List of things Aussies should be ashamed of:
10.The Australian chauvinistic male.
9.Hugh Jackman.
8.The dingo that ate Meryl Streep's baby.
7.Treatment of the Aborigines.
6.The inbred outback billabong trashy people.
5.The inbred urban trashy people.
4.The Bali nine.
3.The racial prejudice riots at Cronulla beach.
2.Australian meat pie.
1.Kylie Minogue.
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
- VP
wave
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I was feeling a little ashamed because it tarnishes the good reputation of Australia. People here have asked me,'is it really that bad there?'.
20 years? You're dreamin'.
#10. Pales in comparison to the American chauvinistic male.
#9. Ugh Jackman, yeah fair call.
#8. The babies in Australia now eat the dingos.
#7. Don't bother raising this subject unless you've studied it or have lived with them.
#6. Read #7.
#5. AKA Yobbos. Every place has these.
#4. You can't help bad luck.
#3. Two sides to that story.
#2. Nothing wrong with a dogs eye.
#1. Kylie's coming to Shanghai next month apparently, but I'll be f$cked if I'm gonna watch her.
Sometimes the same is different, but mostly, it's the same.
bobby_liu
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haha!
lucreziab
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#1 Chauvinism in Australia , well, even my female Australian friends warned about that before I went there. I thought she was joking until I aw for myself. Maybe if you are an Australian man you wouldn't notice it as much.
taoqibao
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Thanks Ned.
Apart from #10,#4,#3,#2, I'll be sure to take notes.
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
- VP
wave
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Aussie women probably don't notice how they act sometimes too. Nothing worse than some rough looking sheila three thirds blind drunk crackin' on to you, grabbing your arse right in front of your wife.
Sometimes the same is different, but mostly, it's the same.
wave
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Good. Now get an avatar picture for yourself or I'll eat your dingo.
Sometimes the same is different, but mostly, it's the same.
gooldenwending
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i'm kind of surprised by some of the callousness of the responses to this article.
what a horrible story. i feel ashamed to be alive in a world where that kind of thing still happens.
kristhedabendan
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Yeah I just saw the story. Its really sad, they died hey? Just the girl i thought. there have been a couple of stories of chinese students getting into trouble in australia. sad indeed.
taoqibao
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No dingo, though I do have a hamster (she's treadmillin as I type, which helps power my PC by the way), but I'll be damned if anyone's gonna dip her in a jar of vegemite and eat her!!
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
- VP
CyniCritic
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Whoa up there fulla. Us chauvinistic Aussie males can put up with a fair bit of trash talk (and expect it from the sepos) but never EVER speak badly of the Aussie meat pie.
wave
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Sometimes the same is different, but mostly, it's the same.
taoqibao
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Nice one.
OK you're all gonna thing I'm a little sick, but the hamster also comes to 'play'
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
- VP
zhenlai
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Ned you be nice to Americans after all they gave you your avatar.
美国鬼子
taoqibao
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that is: comes out TO 'play'!
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
- VP
wave
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Yeah Ok. There are a couple of things that are good about them I suppose.
Sometimes the same is different, but mostly, it's the same.
taoqibao
Re: Feeling ashamed to be an Australian
Top Ten List of things American's should be proud of.......
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
- VP
wave
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Here ya go.
http://www.linkognito.com/b.php?b=234
Sometimes the same is different, but mostly, it's the same.
taoqibao
Re: Feeling ashamed to be an Australian
Now you know why we Americans are a proud people.
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
- VP
gooldenwending
Re: Feeling ashamed to be an Australian
Now, I know that it's fun (and easy) to bash America lately. But, let's not forget that America actually does have some strong points in its history.
Here's what I thought of (in no real order):
10. The Ivy League, which undoubtedly includes many of the top institutions of learning in the world
9. Our great writers and poets: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Gary Snyder, Thomas Pynchon...
8. Early environmental pioneers like John Muir, Rachel Carson, Barry Commoner, Paul Ehrlich and E.O. Wilson and being the first country to set aside land in National Parks
7. The civil rights movement
6. Accepting (for a period, at least) the tired, poor and huddled masses yearning to breathe free
5. Artistic pioneering in radio, television and film
4. Scientific and technical achievement
3. Early tolerance of different religions
2. First attempt at government by the people and for the people
1. Bill of Rights
Skipinbj
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They got the guy, yesterday night, right after the CCTV pics were released. Pretty scary, it happened within a few hundred metres of where I live.
I love China! 一切反动派都是纸北京猫!!!
CyniCritic
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Haha, trust the yanks to take a thread titled "Feeling ashamed of being an Australian" and turning it into a discussion of why they should be "Proud to be an American".
What were we saying about chauvinism again? Haha, typical.
bobby_liu
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in today's news, it's said "the two victims were forced to have sex and video taped"
f*** that!
zhenlai
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The Australian started it.
美国鬼子