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California does have some of the strictest gun laws in the nation and red flag laws. The San Diego Synagogue shooting provides even more evidence that gun control laws fail because criminals do not follow laws, only the law abiding citizens follow the laws. CA has also reached a tipping point of so many gun laws that even the law abiding gun owners are getting frustrated at the costs and nearly impossible task to follow the CA gun laws that they are starting to ignore them. The criminals are breaking them all the time and our legal system is so overwhelmed and underfunded that most are subject to catch and released. They are arrested, cited and told to appear in court, and released. They do not appear and are rearrested, cited for failure to appear, re-rereleased, and the cycle repeated. Our politicians to make life fair for the poor and downtrodden have eliminated bail for all but those accused of the most violent crimes. Many gun crimes are now misdemeanors, such as a felon in possession so they are told bad boy, the gun is taken away, hand is slapped and they are released with a few more months of probation added to their sentence. There are too many felons on probation and too few probation officers so the felons are not monitored. They do whatever they want.Us law abiding citizens though will jammed up by the legal system if we dare use a gun to protect our families from a home invasion robbery. If we shoot the home invader and they happen to make it outside and bleed out, we can be in trouble because we obviously did not need to shoot them. We should have escaped and let them have whatever they wanted.The Poway shooter was 19. In CA, one needs to be 21 to buy any firearm. There is an exception for long guns (rifles and shotguns). For those that are between 18 and 21, if they have a hunting license and a firearms safety certificate, they can legally purchase a long gun. They still have to go through the background check and 10 day wait. The other exception that was not mentioned in the news stories is a parent or grandparent can gift a firearm, hand gun or long gun to an adult child or grand child that is 18 or older using the intrafamilial transfer process. They hand the firearm to the person. The person needs to have a firearm safety certificate. They fill out the Operation of Law form and write a check for $19 and send it in to the CA DOJ. It can also be done online. The DOJ will run the background check. This process will often take up to a year but once the form is filled out and sent in, the gun is legally transferred. If the person fails the background check, the DOJ will contact the person either by mail or by sending an officer to the address to inform them they need to transfer the gun back to the previous owner or turn the gun over to the police. They will run the background check on the previous owner to make sure that person can still legally possess firearms. If not, the police will be sent to confiscate the firearm.The CA DOJ often fails to do that background check and when they do, if the person is found to be prohibited often fails to follow through to inform the person or to collect the firearm. So the state does not enforce its own laws. When they do send their gun confiscation teams out, they do not target the dangerous criminals whom they know possess guns illegally. They do not want to get into a standoff or shootout. They go after the people who have minor issues and are likely on the list due to an error. These are the people who are not a danger to anybody and do not realize they are on the prohibited list. Once they discover they are, the situation can be cleared up by hiring an attorney and filling the correct paperwork or straightening out the records that are incomplete. The DOJ of course destroys the guns before the process is completed and will not replace them. They issue an apology and say we made a mistake, sorry. They are quick to add these people to their statistics of another dangerous armed prohibited person disarmed and guns removed from the street. For the DOJ, every gun is evil, unless it is a gun they are carrying to intimidate the law abiding.CA has the most convoluted AW laws. It takes an expert to determine when an AW is not an AW. A bullet button used to make a magazine a fixed magazine. That is no longer true. The new devices to make a magazine fixed requires opening the action to change a magazine actually makes magazine changes faster and easier. Some devices allows one to use stripper clips to reload which allow even faster reloads and use technology that is well over 100 years old. I have a magazine loader that can load magazines in a second. It uses the same principle as stripper clips. It picks up the ammo from the ammo box and then loads it into the magazine in one smooth step. I can load 10 rounds onto the mag loader and into the magazine in a total of 2 seconds.One of the drills I do when I shoot my hand guns is to take a 50 round box of ammo and load 5 magazine and then shoot all 50 rounds as quickly and accurately as I can into my target at 15 yards. I do this in 90 seconds or less. It has taken a lot of training to get good at it. In CA, with 10 round magazine limits, in a home invasion robbery situation, one needs to be able to change mags quickly because when it is 1 against 4, and the criminals are using the large capacity magazines because they do not follow the laws that you are forced to, you are at a disadvantage. You have to change mags quickly and stay in the gun fight and make every shot count. The criminals just drive to NV or AZ and buy the large capacity magazines and drive them back. It is a felony to do so, but with a few million cars driving into CA daily, who is going to search them? They could not be searched anyway without getting warrants which would require evidence that a crime had been committed.Back to the Poway’s shooter’s gun, I saw a quick picture of it and it looked like it was a home built gun. It had an aluminum anodized receiver that is characteristic of the 80% receivers one can purchase without a background check. They do not qualify as a firearm because they are not completed enough to meet the definition of a firearm according to the regulations set forth by the ATF. One can purchase a jig and use a router or a drill press and finish the milling work on the receiver to make it a functioning lower receiver. Then the other parts can be purchased without a background check because they are just parts and not the part that is considered the firearm itself. The Internet is filled with how-to tutorials and videos. The AR15 is one of the easiest firearms to build. The AK47 is another easy one to build and one only needs to start with a flat piece of metal and have a way to bend it. For fun, Google the shovel AK47. A shovel can be used to build an AK47. The AK47 was intentionally designed to be easy to build with simple tools.I have seen proposals by some Democrats to ban the sales of 80% receivers. It is laughable because I have watched people build AR15 receivers out of a block of aluminum. You can buy 0% receivers that are nothing but a block of aluminum and use the same jig to have the satisfaction to build your gun from scratch.I have build a few 10/22s, a .22 caliber rifle based on the famous Ruger 10/22. They are almost as easy as building an AR15. In CA, rimfire rifles are not subject to AW laws so I built mine to have all the so-called evil features. It looks scary but it still shoots the underpowered .22 LR cartridge, the same as the not scary, traditional looking .22 rifle.The DA handling the Poway shooter case stated that the shooter purchased the rifle legally the day before the shooting. That does not add up. The news reports I read speculate he purchased the rifle in NV or AZ. That is wrong, that would be a violation of Federal law. One must purchase a gun according to the laws of the state they are a resident of and CA requires all gun purchases to go through a CA FFL. So if he purchased it in NV or AZ, he could not take possession there, it would have to be shipped to a CA FFL where he would have to go through the CA process, the CA background check, the 10 wait, before he could pick it up. It would also have to be CA legal.The gun I saw had a pistol grip and that would only be legal if it had a break action to remove the magazine. I did not see that, but they are not always easy to spot.CA AW laws are so complicated that most DAs and LEO do not understand them and often the guns have to be sent to the CA DOJ to be inspected to determine if they are an AW or not. Even the DOJ has problems interpreting the law because they are not clearly written. The people who write the laws do not understand guns and so write laws that are very confusing. They do not use proper gun terminology. For example, the laws only take into account bolt action and semi-automatic, they do not consider lever action guns so those are in a legal limbo. This is especially troublesome when it comes to handguns. The Henry Mare’s leg is a lever action pistol but the handgun laws in CA only consider semiautomatic handguns or revolvers. Handguns have to be placed in one of those categories. The lawmakers did not realize there was a third category so everybody kind of ignores it and are glad they are not popular. The state hopes nobody sues over it because it will take a lot of word twisting to force it into one or the other category and either choice will create further legal problems for the state.The news has asked several times about large capacity magazines. Well, the shooter had 5 magazines and a total of 50 unused rounds in the magazines in his vest. He had the legal 10 round magazines on him. He also only shot 8 to 10 rounds before the gun jammed. So he likely only had a 10 round magazine in the gun.Even if he had greater than 10 round magazines with him, they are now legal to own. A federal appeals court ruling in Duncan v. Beccera recently ruled the large capacity magazine ban in CA is unconstitutional. For a week, it was legal to purchase large capacity magazines. (Us gun people call them standard capacity magazines because these are the standard size magazines that are sold with the guns in free states). The AG asked for a preliminary injunction because he is appealing the case to the 9th Circuit Court. Judge Benitez granted it with the additional rolling that those who purchased the large capacity magazines or obtained them through any means would continue to legally possess and use them until this case plays out in the court system. There is an expectation this case will go all the way to SCOTUS. It was a well written decision and it will be difficult for the 9th to overturn and if they do, SCOTUS can easily overrule the 9th because Judge Benitez wrote the ruling for them to use. He basically said criminals do not follow the law and the law abiding have been injured and killed being forced to use limited capacity magazines in real life self-defense situations against criminals who use large capacity magazines and gave some good examples. At this point, large capacity magazines are legal in CA. The state would have to prove they were imported into the state after April 5, 2019 and that is nearly impossible to do.They other law the shooter may have violated is how he obtained his ammo. Starting 7/1/19, all people buying ammo will be required to pass a background check. Since 7/1/18, all ammo has had to be kept locked up and an employee who has passed a background check and is 21 or older has to get the ammo and ring it up. The purchaser has to be 21 or older. A parent or grandparent can purchase for a child or grandchild. Those that are 18 to 21 can purchase rifle or shotgun ammo if they have a hunting license and firearm safety certificate.It is an infraction to import ammo from out of state. Guess what is the most violated gun law now? The gun people I know are buying ammo out of state and bringing it back because they are sick and tired of the ever more stupid gun laws. Criminals are doing it all the time. The state is treating gun owners like criminals so we might as well act like criminals.An infraction is the same as a speeding ticket. In order to cite one, an officer must witness the person buying the ammo out of state and then follow the person back to CA without losing sight of them. Then they have to pull them over inside of CA to ticket them. If I go to Reno for the weekend and buy ammo on Saturday and return on Sunday, no highway patrol officer is going to follow me to my hotel, spend the night monitoring me and then follow me into CA the next day.There are exceptions. If my wife gifts me ammo, I am exempt from the importation restriction. So, I go to Reno, she buys the ammo and gives it to me, then I can legally bring it back. Like a said, our politicians are too stupid to right good laws.There is another exemption for those that have a FFL03 and a COE. The FFL03 is a federal license for collectors of guns 50 years or older. I have that. A COE is a CA certificate of Eligibility, a pre-background check that is done once a year. I have that. I can now legally import all the ammo I want from out of state. I do not have to carry these documents with me when I do. Do you think a CHP officer will take the time to cite me, go to court to have me show up with my documents so I have the case dismissed, and waste his time and all over a $50 fine. There are not enough officers to keep people from doing 15 mph over the speed limit. That is the point where they take the time to pull people over to ticket.The ammo buying law is a feel good law designed to stop people from buying ammo in CA. It makes the process so difficult people just give up gun ownership in the state. The rest of us gun people just say screw it and buy out of state. We have decided to starve the beast and not pay the sales tax on our ammo to CA since they do not want us to own guns.Others are turning to reloading since reloading supplies do not require a background check and they can still be purchased online.Finally, someone did call the FBI to inform them of some troubling social media posts the shooter had made, including one where he stated he was going to shoot up a synagogue and kill some Jews to get revenge for what they did to Jesus. It happened less than 5 minutes before he shot up the synagogue. That red flag law really worked. There was about 10 minutes between that post and the start of his shooting spree. Maybe we need a law requiring everyone to post their intentions on social media 48 hours in advance of their actually taking any action. We can call it a cooling off period.Notice also that as soon as he started shooting what stopped him? In this case two good guys with guns. One was a war vet with a CCW from another state but was illegally carrying in the Synagogue because CA does not recognize CCW permits from other states. Notice that no legal action was taken against him. CA does have a law that shields one from prosecution if they use an illegally possessed gun for legal self-defense. The police and DA will not openly mention that, they do not want that to be out and spread by the media.The other was a border patrol agent who heard the gunfire and came running.Neither did fire their weapons because innocent people were in the line of fire. They did distract the shooter and threw him off of his game. That distraction did get him to stop shooting and may have played a factor in his gun jamming or his inability to clear the jam. Clearing a jam is simple for those who are familiar with guns. He might not have been familiar with guns. I can clear a jam in a couple of seconds for my guns. It is because I practice and regularly do drills to practice this.If the person is no longer shooting, there is no need to shoot at him and put the lives of innocent people at risk. They were able to chase him down to his car and almost captured him there. He did drive off but law enforcement captured him shortly after that.The main reason no law stopped him was he was like many spree or mass shooters. He was not a prior felon. His social media presence was hidden from those who knew him best in real life. His family did not have a clue. They have practically disowned him because this is not how they raised him. My guess is they will not any part of the trial. He is dead to his parents.I would not be surprised if we eventually learned he obtained his gun through a means that did not require a background check. I have a few guns that did not require a background check to legally obtain. Of course they were obtained years ago before background checks were a thing. In many states it is still legal to buy guns from private parties without background checks and many of these states have much lower crime rates than CA. UBC do not lower gun crime rates by themselves. They just keep the law abiding people honest. The criminals still get guns without background checks. If I wanted a gun that was not registered with the state I would either build one or buy one on the black market. Black market guns are cheaper than legal guns. As a teacher, all I need to do is ask an administrator who the drug dealer on campus is. Then go to that student and offer $200 to get me a gun. That is $100 more than required. That extra $100 is to buy silence and to have the gun delivered to me by one of my students that also works for him. It will come to me in a backpack that will be dropped off at my desk with no questions asked.In return though, I will have to overlook drug dealing in my room. That I cannot do so ultimately I will not buy from a drug dealer, the cost to me as a law abiding citizen is too high. This is to illustrate how easy it is. Personally, if I were to ever do something illegal, I would go the DIY route. A secret is only safe if only one person knows it. Once you tell another, you can be sure they will tell others and the secret will not be kept.As a teacher at an urban high school, I can say that we find at least one gun a week on a student. They were all illegally obtained as all these students are under 18. They were possessed in a gun free school zone. Every student could be charged as an adult for violating the gun free school zone. They are not. They are not even disciplined. Image is important to the gun is confiscated and the student sent back to class. The gun is dumped in the dumpster late that evening. If it were reported as required by law, the school would be labelled as a dangerous school and then loose state money. The district would have to bus students to other schools if parents requested it. We cannot get that unsafe school label so it is easier to throw away the gun and pretend it never happened. More evidence strict gun laws do not work. They just make politicians feel good because they did something even if it was meaningless. They can use it to get re-elected which is the only reason they do anything to begin with.Finally, do not buy into the hype about the AR15 being a deadly AW. I own a piece of history, a M1 Garand that was used to storm the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. Rather than shooting a .22 on steroids it shoots a devastating .30 caliber round that can also kill any large North American land predator (think Grizzly or Polar Bear). In many states, the AR15 is not legal to take deer with. It is not the killing machine the news media makes it out to be. The M1 Garand fits that description much better.It does not have a pistol grip stock so it is not classified as an AW. I do own a version that shoots a .308 and uses a 20 round magazine. It is not considered an AW but I can fire it with much more deadly affect that an AR15. I grew up shooting rifles that were made of wood and steel and had significant recoil so it does not bother me. Many prefer the AR15 because it has a very light recoil and it is very light weight. I have seen young children fire it easily and maintain good control of the firearm. It has many advantages. It is not a high caliber killing machine the media makes it out to be.

Apartheid is defined as a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race.The most classic example of this of course was South Africa and it was the success of the global boycott against South Africa that provided the enticement for an absurd strategy of reverse application (to Israel), where the comparison is made simply because of the success of the anti-Apartheid campaign.There is a simple and undeniable fact, that everyone in Israel votes, which in itself dispels the Apartheid myth completely; but let’s go even further.Take as an example two Arab brothers who were living in Akko in 1947; then during the civil war in 1948 caused by the Arab rejection of partition, one left the area to escape the troubles and the other didn’t.Today, one of these brothers is Israeli, with full citizenship; the other is a Palestinian living in a refugee camp. However you choose to look at this and whatever separates these two brothers, it cannot be race.(The lies and the myths of the anti-Israeli crowd)Israel is the opposite of an apartheid state. It is a multicultural democracy and the only free country in the Middle East. Labeling Israel as practicing “apartheid” justifiably offends Israelis and many victims of real apartheid regimes. Israeli law enshrines equal rights for all citizens, and minorities participate fully in public life. While Israel, like other multi-ethnic democracies, struggles with minority disadvantages, its laws try to eradicate inequality. Nor does Israel practice apartheid in the West Bank and Gaza. ‘Palestinians’ are not citizens of the jewish state, and the vast majority do not want to be. They are governed by their own leaders—Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.(16 Things That Give Israel a Bad Name But Aren't Really True)Apartheid Laws that are Explicitly Illegal in IsraelSouth AfricaImmorality Amendment Act, Act No 21 of 1950; amended in 1957 (Act 23) - Prohibited adultery, attempted adultery or related immoral acts (extra-marital sex) between white and black people.Israel|Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty - All citizens are equal before the law. In regards to universal concepts of human dignity and liberty, religious and ethnic groups are not referenced at all, only people. There are no laws governing sexual activity within or without the bounds of marriage between consenting adults.South AfricaGroup Areas Act, Act No 41 of 1950 - Forced physical separation between races by creating different residential areas for different races. Led to forced removals of people living in “wrong” areas, for example Coloureds living in District Six in Cape Town.IsraelIt is illegal to discriminate against potential home-buyers based on race, religion or other factors in Israel. - There are no laws designating where Jews and non-Jews can or can not live. The Israel National Planning Council does designate new towns or cities as being developed for a specific community, but this is only designed to meet the needs of that community and has no bearing on who can actually live there. As such, the INPC may plan a new “haredi city,” but all Israeli citizens are free to move there, it just happens that because the plans will include special designations to meet the needs of the haredi community (additional space for synagogues, yeshivas, mikvahs…) making it more attractive to haredi citizens. INPC designations are merely guidelines and do not prevent citizens of any religion or ethnicity from living in any area.South AfricaSuppression of Communism Act, Act No 44 of 1950 - Outlawed communism and the Communist Party in South Africa. Communism was defined so broadly that it covered any call for radical change. Communists could be banned from participating in a political organisation and restricted to a particular area.IsraelBasic Law: The Knesset, Section 7A “Prevention of participation of candidates list - The only way a candidate list can be prevented from running for Knesset is if they reject Israel as a Jewish and democratic state, incite racism, or violence against the state by an enemy state or terror organization. Despite the fact that no Arab party currently in the Knesset recognizes Israel as a Jewish State, they have never been prevented from running in elections or serving in the Knesset. While there have been legal attempts to disqualify Arab parties for violating this law, each attempt was blocked by the Supreme Court. The only parties ever successfully banned from running for the Knesset were Kach and Kahane Chaiand they were subsequently banned outright after being reclassified as terrorist organizations.As for the law relating specifically to Communists, the Israeli Communist Party is currently in the Knesset as a faction of the Hadash Party which is part of the Joint Arab List.South AfricaNative Labour (Settlement of Disputes) Act of 1953 - Prohibited strike action by blacks.IsraelCollective Agreements Law - 1957* and *the Settlement of Labour Disputes Law - 1957 (among others) - The right to strike by all workers, regardless of religion or ethnicity, is enshrined in law. General strikes by the Arab sector in Israel have occurred many times in the past as acts of protest.South AfricaReservation of Separate Amenities Act, Act No 49 of 1953 - Forced segregation in all public amenities, public buildings, and public transport with the aim of eliminating contact between whites and other races. "Europeans Only” and “Non-Europeans Only” signs were put up. The act stated that facilities provided for different races need not be equal.Israel:Discrimination based on religion or ethnicity is illegal in Israel - Jews and Arabs use the same public amenities, buildings and transport and it is illegal for a business not to serve a customer because they are an Arab or a Jew. The fact that occasionally the news will report about people or businesses discriminating (as happens at times in every country) is proof that they are law-breakers not policy makers.South AfricaGroup Areas Development Act, Act No 69 of 1955 - Helped to effect the purpose of the Group Areas Act of 1950, namely to exclude non-Whites from living in the most developed areas, which were restricted to Whites. It was later replaced by the Community Development Act of 1966.IsraelThere are no restrictions on where a citizen can live regardless of religion or ethnicity.South AfricaNatives (Prohibition of Interdicts) Act, Act No 64 of 1956 - Denied black people the option of appealing to the courts against forced removals.IsraelAny citizen can appeal an eviction notice before the courts. Even non-Israeli Palestinians living in Judea and Samaria can sue in the Israeli Supreme Court (and win) if they believe they are being deprived of their land unjustly. Arabs, both citizens and non-citizens, have the right to appeal to the court system for anySouth AfricaBantu Investment Corporation Act, Act No 34 of 1959 - Provided for the creation of financial, commercial, and industrial schemes in areas designated for black people.IsraelThere are no areas designated as only for Arabs (or Jews only) in Israel and no “financial, commercial or industrial schemes” specifically for those non-existent areas. The Industrial Parks or Zones in Israel and Judea and Samaria make no distinction between Jew or Arab or Israeli or Palestinian.South AfricaExtension of University Education Act, Act 45 of 1959 - Put an end to black students attending white universities (mainly the universities of Cape Town and Witwatersrand). Created separate tertiary institutions for whites, Coloured, blacks, and Asians.IsraelThere are no restrictions on university admission based on religion or ethnicity. On the contrary, there are affirmative action programs designed to aid disadvantaged students - Arab, women, the disabled… - in gaining admission.South AfricaPromotion of Bantu Self-Government Act, Act No 46 of 1959 - Classified black people into eight ethnic groups. Each group had a Commissioner-General who was tasked to develop a homeland for each, which would be allowed to govern itself independently without white intervention.IsraelArabs (like Jews) do fall into many categories in Israel - Muslim, Christian, Bedouin, Druze - but they are all equal before the law. There are no Bantu areas in Israel and no Israeli citizen can be deprived of their citizenship.South AfricaColoured Persons Communal Reserves Act, Act No 3 of 1961 - Effectively of lowered wages by denying Africans rights within urban areas and by keeping their families and dependents on subsistence plots in the reserves.IsraelIt is illegal to discriminate between employees based on religion or ethnicity, including in regards to their salaries.South AfricaPreservation of Coloured Areas Act, Act No 31 of 1961 - Created a legal loophole for land in “coloured areas” to be seized and paid for to white “Guardians” in place of the original owners who may or may not have registered their claims.IsraelThere are no areas specifically for Jews or non-Jews and in the case of eminent domain, only the legal owner would be compensated. All land-owners must have documentation to prove their ownership.South AfricaUrban Bantu Councils Act, Act No 79 of 1961 - Created black councils in urban areas that were supposed to be tied to the authorities running the related ethnic homeland.Israel:City councils are elected by the citizens of the municipality without regard to religion or ethnicity.South AfricaBantu Homelands Citizens Act of 1970 - Compelled all black people to become a citizen of the homeland that responded to their ethnic group, regardless of whether they’d ever lived there or not, and removed their South African citizenship.IsraelArab citizens of Israel cannot be stripped of their citizenship without their consent. While critics of Israel frequently label the Palestinian Authority as a “Bantustan” this is for propaganda purposes and does not fit the comparison at all. Rather than creating the Palestinian Authority to deprive Arab Israelis of their citizenship, Israel was essentially forced into establishing it as part of the Oslo Accords. The creation of the PA had no effect on Arab citizens of Israel and while some Knesset Members have floated the idea of ceding some Israeli Arab towns to the PA as part of a peace treaty, such suggestions were never part of Israel’s past peace offers.Palestinian AuthorityMahmoud Abbas has made it clear that under any final peace deal, he would not allow a single Jew to remain in the Palestinian State. This means that all Jews living in Judea and Samaria outside of areas annexed by Israel would not even get the option of Palestinian citizenship. Just like Blacks in South Africa, they would be unable to get citizenship where they live and instead would have to look toward their ethnic homeland for citizenship before being expelled.South AfricaThe Natives (Urban Areas) Act of 1923 - Laid the foundations for residential segregation in urban areas. This led to all Black South Africans being required to carry a Pass or ID card at all times.IsraelThere is no segregation - residential or otherwise - in urban or other areas. Segregation based on religion or ethnicity is illegal. All Israelis, regardless of religion or ethnicity, are required to carry their National ID Card at all times.Israeli Laws with Superficial Similarities to Apartheid LawsSouth AfricaProhibition of Mixed Marriages Act, Act No 55 of 1949 - Prohibited marriages between white people and people of other races. Between 1946 and the enactment of this law, only 75 mixed marriages had been recorded, compared with some 28,000 white marriages.IsraelReligious Marriage and Recognition of All Foreign Marriages - In regards to marriage, Israel maintains the law established by the Ottomans and continued by the British Mandate in which all marriages are conducted by separate religious establishments. All people are free to change their religious status for marriage or personal choice. All foreign civil marriages are recognized by the state without regard to religion, race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation.Palestinian AuthorityThe PA also has no Civil Marriage and all marriages are carried out through separate religious establishments. There is no recognition or protection for same-sex couples.South AfricaPopulation Registration Act, Act No 30 of 1950 - Led to the creation of a national register in which every person’s race was recorded. A Race Classification Board took the final decision on what a person’s race was in disputed cases.IsraelRegistration of Inhabitants Ordinance No. 50 OF 5709-1949 and Population Registry Law, 5725-1965 - The State of Israel’s registration authority does collect data on citizen’s religion and ethnicity under the these laws, but this is merely for statistical purposes, as stated in Section 3 of the Registration of Inhabitants Ordinance and upheld by the Supreme Court in 2004. Many if not most countries around the world do the same. The laws list “religion” and “ethnicity” but makes no distinction between them and does not call for members of a certain group to be treated differently. Israeli ID cards have not shown the barer’s religion/ethnicity/nationality since 2005.Palestinian AuthorityAll Palestinians have their religious affiliation included on their identification papersas well.An example of an Israeli ID card (note the ******** under the nationality section so the barer’s ethnicity/nationality is not shown.)South AfricaBantu Education Act, Act No 47 of 1953* - Established a Black Education Department in the Department of Native Affairs which would compile a curriculum that suited the “nature and requirements of the black people”. The author of the legislation, Dr Hendrik Verwoerd (then Minister of Native Affairs, later Prime Minister), stated that its aim was to prevent Africans receiving an education that would lead them to aspire to positions they wouldn’t be allowed to hold in society. Instead Africans were to receive an education designed to provide them with skills to serve their own people in the homelands or to work in labouring jobs under whites.|asdfasdfasd|IsraelSignatory to Convention against Discrimination in Education and Numerous Israeli Universal Education Laws - The Ministry of Education runs an Arab education system for the Arab minority in Israel that makes special recognition of Arab heritage and culture. This includes instruction in Arabic and lessons in Arab history and literature. There are also many joint Jewish-Arab schools throughout the country.In order to address gaps between the level and quality of education between Jewish and Arab students, the Israeli government has initiated numerous affirmative action campaigns and increased budgets for the Arab community. This has had mixed results. Despite the problems Israel faces with ensuring students in minority and poor student get a proper education (something every country has difficulty with) Christian Arabs have flourished in Israel in terms of education. Far from intending to prevent Arabs “from receiving an education that would lead them to aspire to positions they wouldn’t be allowed to hold in society” (none such positions exist in Israel), the Arab Education system of the Ministry of Education is designed to incread the educational standards in Arab schools while celebrating and teaching Arab culture and history.Arab students in IsraelSouth AfricaNatives Resettlement Act, Act No 19 of 1954 - Permitted the removal of blacks from any area within and next to the magisterial district of Johannesburg by the South African government. This act was designed to remove of blacks from Sophiatown to Soweto.IsraelIt is illegal to remove anyone, regardless of religious or ethnic background, from their legally owned homes. - If a citizen does not own their home or property or built their home without a legal permit, only then can they be evicted, but these evictions can be fought in court. The most common occurrences deal with Bedouin squatting on State Land and Jews who establish outposts in Judea and Samaria on property they have not legally acquired. In both cases, the residents may appeal their evictions to the Supreme Court. The only example of Israeli citizens being forced from their legally owned homes is of Jews who were forcibly removed from Sinai, Gaza and Samaria as part of the peace treaty with Egypt and the 2005 Disengagement Plan.Palestinian AuthorityMahmoud Abbas has made it clear that under any final peace deal, he would not allow a single Jew to remain in the Palestinian State. This means that any Jews living in the area designated for a Palestinian State would be expelled in the same way Jews were previously expelled from Sinai, Gaza and Northern Samaria.South Africa:Terrorism Act of 1967 - Allowed for indefinite detention without trial and established BOSS, the Bureau of State Security, which was responsible for the internal security of South Africa.Israel:British Mandate 1945 Law on Authority in States of Emergency as amended in 1979, or Administrative Detention - (From Wikipedia)Within Israel, the Defense Minister has the authority to issue Administrative Detention orders for up to 6 months in cases where there is a reasonable chance that the person harms the security of the state. The same Minister has the authority to renew such orders. Likewise, the Chief of the General Staff can issue such orders, but valid for only 48 hours. Law enforcement authorities have to show cause within 48 hours (in a hearing behind closed doors). Administrative Detention orders can be appealed to the District Court and, if denied there, to the Supreme Court of Israel. The District Court can annul such orders if it finds the administrative detention occurred for reasons other than security (e.g., common crimes, or the exercise of freedom of expression). Overall supervisory authority on the application of the relevant law rests with the Minister of Justice.More importantly, this law applies to all terrorism suspects. Suspected Jewish terrorists are subjected to the strictures of the law exactly as are Arab terrorists. It just happens that there are fewer Jewish terrorists (Thank God!) and therefore fewer Jews placed in administrative detention. Importantly, it is only very rarely used against Israeli citizens, Arab or Jew.This law is not perfect and, like any law, can be abused. However, the number of prisoners held in such an arrangement has a direct correlation with the terror level. In June 2012, there were 285 Palestinians in detention but by December 2013, this number was cut by more than half to 140. To put this in perspective, as of 2011, Jordan had 11,345 prisoners in Administrative Detention 81 times the number in Israel, with a significant proportion of those detained being Palestinian.South AfricaThe Natives Land Act, No 27 of 1913 - Made it illegal for blacks to purchase or lease land from whites except in reserves; this restricted black occupancy to less than eight per cent of South Africa's land.IsraelArabs can and do purchase and lease land from Jews and there are no restrictions on them doing so. It is illegal to discriminate between buyers based on religion or race.When confronted with this fact, many people then point to the Jewish National Fund, which only allows Jews to buy, mortgage or lease its land. There are two important things to take into consideration in regards to the JNF:In 2005, Israeli Attorney General Menachem Mazuz ruled that the Israel Lands Administration could not comply with the JNF's Jews-only policy as it directly contravened Israel's anti-discrimination laws. Therefore, the JNF would be required to sell, lease or rent land to anyone regardless of religion or ethnicity.The Jewish National Fund was founded in 1901 in order to help Jews settle in the land of Israel at a time of growing global anti-Semitism. It was an NGO dedicated to aiding Jews regain territory in their ancestral homeland. This was akin to establishing Indian Reservations in the US or Aboriginal land rights in Australia however it was established and funded by the Jews themselves rather than the ruling government. It is understandable that such areas are run by and in many cases, restricted to, members of the native tribes who were kicked off their land so many years ago and that need these areas to maintain their cultural traditions. There are many laws in the United States, like the Dawes Act and the Indian Reorganization Act that deal specifically with setting aside land only for members of the tribes while Australia has the Indigenous Land Corporation whose sole purpose is to aid Aboriginal Australians gain and manage their land. If Australia were to elect an Aborigines Prime Minister, it would still be necessary and just to have land set aside specifically for Aboriginal use and settlement. The same is true for Israel and the Jewish National Fund.Palestinian AuthorityIt is illegal to sell land to Jews - Any Palestinians who sells land to Jews is not only subject to intense social pressure leading to most claiming they were misled as to the real buyers, but the PLO’s Revolutionary Penal Code (1979) applies the death penalty to anyone “transferring positions to the enemy.” While this was strictly enforced in the 1990s, Abbas has not authorized executions for land sales since 2004. Instead, Palestinians convicted of selling land to Jews are now sentenced to hard labor for life.Technically these laws refer either to "enemy states" or "Israelis," however in practice, this is only ever applied to land deals with Jews. There has never been a case where Palestinians were prosecuted for selling land to Israeli Arabs, despite the fact that many buy homes in the PA. Additionally, since all Jews were ethnically cleansed from Judea and Samaria by Jordan and Gaza by Egypt in 1948, there are no Jewish citizens of the Palestinian Authority (other than token citizenship for famous Israeli "peaceniks" like Daniel Barenboim who don't actually live there) who could buy land or property without being members of an "enemy state." The effect is that it is illegal to sell or rent land to Jews in the Palestinian Authority.(Apartheid Law vs. Israeli Law)Above: South African racial discrimination signBelow: Israeli busAbove: South AfricaBelow: IsraelAbove: South AfricaBelow: IsraelAbove: South AfricaBelow: IsraelAbove: South African racial segregation signBelow: Israeli townPrime Minister Netanyahu shaking hands with Ayman Oudeh, Head of the Joint Arab List, in the KnessetA strike by Israeli workers (if you can tell which are Arabs and which are Jews, be sure to let me know as I certainly cannot tell the difference).An Arab student at Ben Gurion University of the NegevArab workers in IsraelArab voting in an Israeli electionOn Jerusalem's light RailOn Israel Train

DISCLAIMER: Individual experiences in various job 'micro-markets' and companies vary a lot. So this comment may be statistically incorrectWARNING: If you are from a moderately wealthy family and immigrated here when you were just 4 years old, your experience probably is going to be a lot different. A wealthy background can shield you from all sorts of discriminations including the racial ones.CONTEXT: Have robust software product engineering (& entrepreneurial) background, with experiences of working in Couple of US/SV product companies. PR-holder. Living in Sydney for last couple of years.Australia is wonderful country with beautiful beaches, great pub culture, fantastic outback adventure journeys, warm & friendly 'mates', great food diversity & restaurants, tropical weather (Melbourne weather is a bit mercurial :), great transportation (For example, Sydney has four modes of transportations) and road networks etc. I find Sydney as a wonderful city to live in (we'll come to macro-economic aspects of housing affordability in a minute). For people with entrepreneurial & creative bend, Melbourne may be a better option.However, IT culture and recruitments prevailing in Sydney seems a bit depressive. Yes, there are some fantastic companies (Atlassian is a great workplace), but I've seen enough bad ones. Successful immigration to a new country like Australia (esp. if you are married w/o kids) is not just about it's IT-environment. It's a complex interplay of following aspects -1. Local Experience: 'Cultural Fitness' is important for employers, but I think this whole 'Local Experience' thing have been played a bit too much. Without any racial connotation, I've seen this rule being bent often for people with European descent. While attending an interview for SDE position (from a pan-Asia recruitment) in Seattle, Microsoft never stressed on having 'local American experience' as a criteria to see 'cultural fitness'.As a fellow Quora-reader correctly pointed out, there exists an issue about quality of English spoken or practised by Asians. To some degree the complaint is justified. For example, I've observed extremely poor English (both spoken and written) standards while working with an Asian colleague holding Masters in IT from an Australian University. Again this observation mayn't be statistically significant enough to represent the entire Asian population (don't have data to justify). Understandably, Australian universities are under immense "selection pressure" as majority of the talented Asians typically choose US for their higher education due to a multitude of reasons, forcing most of the local Universities to keep the selection bar low enough to remain sustainable. Even then, at the very least, they should raise the minimum requirement (for students) of IELTS to 7. Although this suggestion may have a huge economic impact on Universities (difference between IELTS 6.5 to 7.0 may be few million dollars) and may crush dreams of many Asian students, this will certainly help to ease the communication gap, paving the way for better Cultural Integration.But unlike the innate IQ, English skills can be improved quickly as long as you spend enough time with native english speakers. Unfortunately, due to greater socio-cultural integration issues and subsequent asian-clique-formations, English skills do not improve for many Asians (even after a decade of residency).On the other side, I've worked with a Python (programming language) developer from one of the Eastern European countries. Though an excellent team-member, he didn't possess very good spoken English skills. And without having any "local experience", has been absorbed straight into a technical leadership role demanding expertise in a completely different technical stack.Technical folks (unless it's a client-facing IT consultancy or sales engineering or senior executive leadership role) typically works at back-office. And worldwide, programmers and technical folks are known to be introverts, focusing more on technology as opposed to human interactions. So quality of English doesn't matter too much as long as you communicate well in technical terms (in GitHub/BitBucket comments, algorithms, optimisations etc.) within the team. Interestingly, on average (there are outliers always), I've seen more extroverts dominating the tech-scene here as compared to other tech-hubs across the world. This dominance of extroverts in tech-scene, poor English skills observed among Asians (on average) and cultural stratification perpetuates that "local experience" requirement, perhaps.2. IT Market (Macro Economics): The overall IT market (dominated by service companies, consulting corporations) is shrinking and I know several 'Aussies' who are sailing for greener pastures elsewhere (Singapore, Valley etc.). One of the main reason for this dilapidated condition is lack of start-up funding (esp. in the Angel region of 1-10 million $) and increased tendency of bigger/mature Australian businesses to outsource IT to Asia. As a consequence, job creation (or opportunity creation) has been stalled.3. Work-Life Balance (WLB): With this economics, it's not too difficult to see why many businesses or business units have skewed the 'work-life balance' to the other, more "stressful" end of the spectrum (This again may depend heavily on the specific company or the group you are employed with). If you are into Enterprise Systems (Adobe CQ, BizTalk, Oracle etc.) WLB should be lot better as compared with roles in Application Development (.NET, Ruby Rails). But it's important to remember that too-much-WLB and tendency to "laid back" work culture serves as a fantastic breeding ground for "Mate-o-cracy" (reverse of Meritocracy)4. Recruitment Practices: Barring some exceptional companies & startups, I found the technical recruitment process has a long way to go to catch up US (& even in some cases - Asian [Flipkart, Infosys, Baidu etc.]) standards. Believe it or not, many times recruiters conduct the 'First Round' of technical interviews with an understandably rigid structure. A joke often goes like this -One door never shuts down for an unsuccessful bloke - IT recruitment in Sydney :)Most of the companies will not ask any algorithms/puzzles as part of tech interview, as the popular belief is - "Anyway you are going to develop some Web apps with some stack/framework. Why bother?", as meritocratic practices are often limited to pedantic topics like - TDD patterns, design patterns, OOP etc, number of Github repositories etc. Just because you've spotted a suitable advert in SEEK, it doesn't necessarily mean you will be given an opportunity to appear for the interview, based on merit alone. It's all about the credibility of the channel through which you are approaching to the recruiter who will represent you to the company. Except few companies like Google Australia, recruiters often have deep relationships with your future direct manager or L+2 manager. Some companies have 'preferred' staffing vendors and only way to get a 'call' for an advertised position is to get represented by a recruiter from one of those preferred staffing vendors (ex. Robert Walters). The prevalent practices rest highest faith on the maxim - "It's who you know matters more than what you know". This poses new challenges in the form of "Cultural Integration" (see below - #11) issues.May be a bit sweeping generalisation, in Australia, especially at big corporations, jobs often do not end up at company's public job portal only to be manipulated by a section of managers who have their own 'preferred' recruiters and 'preferred' candidates without actually conducting interviews - pretty horrible recruitment practices. Also racial discrimination is pretty common in recruitment (over the years racism has moved from being explicit to subtle) industry. Checkout - The confessions of a Recruiter MUST READA recruitment agency's definition of screening is.... hit "delete" with Indian / Asian applications. Sad but true!For a more quantitative approach to labour market discrimination -‘After completing TAFE in 2005 I applied for many junior positions where no experience in sales was needed – even though I had worked for two years as a junior sales clerk. I didn’t receive any calls so I decided to legally change my name to Gabriella Hannah. I applied for the same jobs and got a call 30 minutes later.’...To get as many job interviews as an Anglo applicant, an Indigenous person must submit 35% more applications, a Chinese person 68% more, an Italian person 12% more, and a Middle Eastern person 64% more applications (Source).Ref: http://andrewleigh.org//pdf/AuditDiscrimination.pdfBesides racial discrimination, according to interactions with multiple recruiters there exists another perspective which may be a bit uncomfortable to digest. It's about quality of asian students opting to study here. If you are talented enough, on average, it's hard to justify an expensive Australian university degree (There are exceptions as always. ANU, UMELB, USYD ranks pretty high. Sometimes high CoL plays a decisive role) over a quality US one. During the absorption of these students into local workforce, thus, an obviously biased impression gets formed - which in turn feeds into the prevailing racial discrimination issue, making it particularly challenging for other asian (mature-age) immigrants (especially for those having a darker skin and without an Anglo-Saxon-looking name. In fact, have been made specially aware of my darker skin-tone multiple times, since I landed here).5. Minimum Jobless Tenure: Because of the mix of above and other factors, often MJT is random. Expect it to range anywhere from 20 days to a year.6. High Tech Market Maturity: Although 'hard'-engineering is highly paid (at least through the mining-boom days) and respected, software/tech market is yet to reach to a acceptable level of maturity. Without big successes (Atlassian is an exception rather than rule) at home (successes which are also scaled to other parts of the world), software engineering is often viewed as just another commodity expenditure, unlike Sales & Marketing. In fact many multi-national companies (Including Microsoft and others) has only sales & marketing front-end here without any significant software development.7. Attire: This is strange, but attire culturally plays a strong role in schmoozing the recruiter / hiring manager, ultimately getting a job (esp. in big companies), sometimes even in career progression. As long as meritocratic practices are not completely abandoned, this is probably an 'interesting' experience. This poses specific problems for software engineers who usually rests more weight on algorithms, coding, system architecture & performance as opposed to extrinsic attire.8. Business Culture: Business Culture usually represents a microcosm of the society in general and Australia is no exception. Here, it's a deeply class-based, un-meritocratic, discriminatory culture with a gigantic display of Peters Principle, utterly ignoring any modern management practices. Interestingly the prevailing business culture affects not just immigrants (by a greater degree), but pro-innovation local talents as well. Fuelled by mining-boom-driven complacency, singular focus on "leave office by 5" and "how to avoid office work" gestated a toxic work-culture with an alarming level of corporate politics, analysis-paralysis, stupid and convolutional policies, multi-layered decision-making, nepotism and an unfounded fear towards innovation-driven technological disruption. I've heard some corporate folks here literally whingeing - "Evil Google AdWords is killing our 'golden goose' - classified business - where we used to rob our users by charging an exorbitant price. 90s, where are you ?". With total sympathy for workers who have lost their jobs, I rejoiced when many un-innovative and arrogant local businesses (talk to Sydney people about how happy they were when they discovered Uber to dodge highly arrogant and unionized local Taxis) have to give up at the advent of ruthlessly meritocratic American capitalism and entrepreneurship. It will be much more fun when the oligopolistic Australian banking sector have to forgo a substantial part of their lucrative brokerage revenues (brokerage fees are unbelievably expensive here like pretty much everything else) at the face of brilliant execution from Robinhood (Loyal3 on its way as well. Although brokerage arms of big banks are lobbying against Robinhood in order to continue to rob retail Australian investors with insane brokerage charges). Another example of encroachment - Google and Fairfax playing a different tax gameThe paradox is that Fairfax shed so many staff that it found itself sub-letting the entire second floor of its Darling Island headquarters to none other than Google.A leading bank reported following concerning statistics regarding their Directors’ credibility -less than 3 per cent of our directors have a technology background and only 19 per cent have operational experienceSomebody or something has to wake up undeserving Australian corporate leaders (and plutocratic boardroom incumbents) that world has moved on since Office Space and corporations can no longer be run by an elitist group of bankers, lawyers and privileged class (Why Australian workplaces need much better leaders). Innovators, engineers and DO-ers rule now ! It's an age of technological innovation and entrepreneurial thinking (both intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship). Much-touted Australian Work-Life balance has to have its cost, after all. Yet, focus is still on cost-cuts and BAU (Business As Usual) as opposed to new value or business creation.In a risk averse socioeconomic setup, crowded by an army of institutional and individual consultants, it’s not surprising to observe the feeble presence of production or manufacturing segments (As a Blackmore shareholder I was taken aback when some investors toured the Blackmores facility on Sydney’s northern beaches — all they could see was packaging rather than manufacturing. “It’s just a bottling operation,” one investor told The Weekend Australian) of the economy (as the massive economic dependancy to China continues). Interestingly, among these consultants, I’ve observed a strange form of institutional collusion usually seen only at the upper echelons of management or executives. Before immigration to Australia, never heard (never encountered in US directly or through various casual interactions with numerous friends and contacts) of the term - “milking company X together” - a reprehensible practice where a ‘gang’ of consultants all hired as contractors (often high value, 800$-1000$/day) to the company X, intentionally defer a specific project by months in collusion with a management executive, against the interest of the company X. Without a whistleblower this type of corruption is extremely hard to catch and particularly flourishes in a ‘laid-back’ culture where almost everything is contracted out (see. agency problem) without giving much importance to transparent corporate governance, meritocratic recruitment and fair capitalism (and it’s usual motivational bells and whistles like - Employee Stock Options Plan etc.). In fact, based on my subjective observation, ESOP seems like a “mystical” remuneration here unless you belong to the Executive Management or C-suite.9. Housing Price: With Rent-to-Income ratio close to 50%, and Affordability Ratio (median house price divided by median income) close to 12x (unaffordability is defined at 6x), Sydney housing market is in a bubble. When it will burst, no body knows. (Housing 'severely unaffordable' as Sydney price to income ratio worsens) It's difficult to bear CoL expenses with your income alone, unless you have a partner/spouse/wife working. Raising kids is a whole different story altogether. My heart goes to many middle-class Australians who can't afford houses/units of their own, without taking staggering amount of debt for a house that have a high chance of being depreciated, if the bubble finally bursts.Median US house price is almost half of median Australian house ! (even after accounting for currency conversion).At past, many had purchased multiple investment properties with LVR (Loan-to-Value ratio) as high as 90% (and above) before government made a change in regulation. Government deserves accolades for this. Sydney house prices have surged 50 per cent in just three years, sending Australia’s total real estate assets to GDP upwards to 3.8 times. This is higher than experienced at the peak of the Ireland and Japan housing bubbles. Australia now have the highest level of household debt to household disposable income in the world and the country is expected to lose more jobs and opportunities as it prices itself out of the global market. It's too expensive to take risks and too unaffordable to build startups or buy apartments. Big 4 banks of Australia are neck-deep in their exposure to property loans (Australia's banking regulator is worried about the big four's level of exposure to property). Many greedy (and rest of the bystanders are trembling under FOMO - Fear Of Missing Out) investors are still banking on the demand fuelled by steady inflow of international immigrants like you to defer the inevitable - Great Australian Property Crash.Australia needs to diversify its economy, boosting services exports - primarily tourism, education and health - rather than continuing to depend on resources and debt-fuelled property growth10. Career Progression: Compared to US, xenophobia here runs deeper and manifests often in career progression (especially higher management) subverting meritocratic practices. Barack Obama (President of US : 2009-2017), Sundar Pichai (CEO of Google), Satya Nadella (CEO of Microsoft), Indra Nooyi (CEO of Pepsi), Shantanu Narayen (CEO of Adobe) - all are glorious examples where meritocratic practices has been honoured dismissing any discrimination based on race, look, cast, creed or religion. I will be interested to know how many big Australian corporations or companies have a CEO with an Asian origin (preferably 1G). Overall statistics portrays a dismal picture -Australians of Asian cultural backgrounds account for nearly 10 per cent of the country’s population but they only account for 1.9 per cent of executive managers, 4.15 per cent of directors and 1.3 per cent of federal parliamentarians.Forgot to mention that, for a majority of cases, your previous Asian (technical/IT) experiences and job-seniority will be discounted no matter how relevant or awesome those experiences were. Most probably, you have to literally start from scratch or accept a demotion at the least. One smart way would be to have a - "test the waters before you sail" strategy. Conduct a reconnaissance before leaving that secure job back home.Keeping racial discrimination aside, there is another interesting aspect of career progression - 'Mate-o-cracy' - where meritocratic practices are completely disregarded. Without passing a judgement on their unfathomable diverse skill-sets, I've observed a journalist promoted as Director of Software Engineering, a successful real-estate salesman working in a High Tech Patent Firm sifting through technical RFPs (Request For Proposals) and many such blatant labour market aberrations.11. EducationOne of the obvious ways to rise above discriminations and attain greater social mobility is Education. Australia has some top-class Universities (ANU, UNSW, USYD, UMELB - to name a few) with world-class research facilities and faculties. But the problem is - absorption of these students into the mainstream local industry utilising their massive talent-pool, focusing on innovation and job-creation keeping all sorts of discriminations (which cost a lot of money to the country, BTW) at bay. Over-focus on mining and few other ancillary industries, did not help to flourish other areas of the economy especially the High Tech market. This makes talent absorption difficult (a far-cry from US). In general, based on my observations, historically education had NOT been perceived as important (social aspect of "tall poppy syndrome" is partially responsible for this) by the local industry (ignore super-niche areas like Finance and Medical Research - which are tiny in size) focusing more on work-experience and on-job-learning. Although this seems meritocratic at first glance, because of rampant discriminations and 'Mate-o-cracy' syndrome described earlier, it hinders social mobility. Although some initiatives by government (National Innovation and Science Agenda) are indeed encouraging, social perspective will take longer time to change.12. Cultural IntegrationUnless you love to stick to your own specific Asian community, it will going to be extremely challenging to integrate or "fit in" (An example - Jason Yat-Sen Li: Being Australian is not about the colour of your skin ). Probably it will take an entire generation. Children of 1G immigrants suffer more to "fit in" compared to what I've seen in US. Bullying is like an epidemic here at school level (Schools 'should be ranked on bullying' to prevent mental health problems, psychiatrist says). Of course, like everywhere else, you can teach your kids to be tough on such circumstances. A good portion of those school bullying is racial in nature and let's accept that sustained bullying is pretty bad for kids.It's shocking to discover people, psychologically, still living in the Victorian era basking in the glory of mining boom days, ignoring all sorts of disruption and democratization technology is creating. Irrespective of endless denial (denying racism is a form of racism - which is pretty common here) institutionalized by public media, you will be repeatedly judged according to your British dining etiquettes, your attire, your skin-colour, your name, your origin etc. Australians place high importance on "humour" (which is great), but often the boundary is pushed too far, bordering with the tradition of "British dark humour" and "racist funny jokes".Chronic underrepresentation of ethnic minorities in public media has justified the existence of NITV (Home | National Indigenous Television | Australian TV | NITV). However, this is not unexpected from a country which upheld highly discriminative policies like White Australia policy till 1973. By the enforcement of Racial Discrimination Act 1975, there has been an effort to declare racial discrimination unlawful, but since then it has morphed into a "subtle" form (ex - police treatments, career progression, social interactions, faux interviews, property renting etc.). Hopefully scenario will gradually improve over time. Empirical evidence validates this. Based on my own Data Journalism study (data from: http://data.gov.au/dataset?q=discrimination), here is a heatmap of the trend in racial discriminations complaints as received by Anti-Discrimination Board NSW. Even though things are getting better holistically, much more improvements are needed in the crucial Employment and Good & Services sector.(Please keep in mind that these are just numbers of complaints serious enough to be reported to ADB-NSW, a tiny sample compared to the unreported ones).BTW, Sydney is the most multi-cultural and least racially discriminative city. Melbourne < Brisbane < Perth < Adelaide is my own subjective ordering (ascending) by racial discrimination. In general, smaller population and high crime-rate do correlate with increased racism. http://alltogethernow.org.au/racism/Observed strong Intra-Asian racism especially from my 2G (second generation) or 1G (immigrated at their early childhood with predominantly wealthy parents) Asian brothers and sisters. A little bit of forgiveness, empathy and tolerance can do wonders against all such hypocrisy. Intra-Asian racism is significantly stronger in comparison with US. Because of lack of importance of meritocracy at the foundation of the society, many racially diverse but talented folks regularly gets evicted out of the country perpetuating some kind of ‘Artificial Selection’, strengthening the myth of white supremacism. Akin to the social dynamics of colonial days, you may observe many (more than what I’ve seen in US; it may change now under Trump) situations of unjustified (and downright foolish) ‘worship’ of Caucasians and exploitation of Asian folks by their own elites. This, IMO, stems from the same root issue of lack of collective belief in meritocracy.The funny part is - all these silly discriminations are causing the country a lot of money - the economic impact of this is massive, especially when Australia is standing at the edge of an impending multi-year recession. As Haas Institute has found out -Of course, you can ignore all these with a typical banter. Unfortunately you will be overpowered (depends on your sensitivity OR how much you care about cultural integration beyond Asian cliques), unless you are lucky or retract back to your Asian community. Many asians dodge these discriminations with a combination of - clique-formation, "fair" skin, wealthy background/entrepreneurship and an Anglo-Saxon-looking name. Darker-skinned asians with a non-affluent background (including me) are not so lucky.US has it's own racial discrimination issues, but over the years it has been structurally weakened by a combination of - Civil Rights Movement (1954–68), "economy-of-scale", meritocracy, diverse job opportunities, true free-market capitalism, top-notch universities, vibrant StartUp culture etc.Update:Motivated by Brexit and resurgence of other extreme (far) right-winger parties across Europe, in the aftermath of Trump’s election, right winger parties are gaining traction here as well. So, it remains to be seen how the drama unfolds across the spectrum of world politics. Interestingly people here with strongest denial of racism are turning out to be biggest supporters of Trump. Hypocrisy unveiled ! It’s extremely frustrating to observe that the repackaging of old colonial technique of “Divide & Conquer” is winning.Overall ImpressionThough Australia (executives, entrepreneurs in particular) believes - Asia and an appropriate strategy for Asia is of utmost importance to its future economic growth prospects, there exists various invisible "glass ceilings" & "glass walls" (some of them are insurmountable) thwarting career progressions of Asian people (mostly 1G, less for 2G) residing here. Check this forum thread - http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1936071If Australians, on average, would have embraced meritocracy and capitalism more than racism & socialist-tendencies, the economy could have been much much more prosperous as opposed to the current state of affairs. If you are of European descent, have an Anglo-Saxon name and suffering from winter depression this is a great country to build your career.It may be possible to focus on your hourly pay-rate while ignoring the entire spectrum of socio-cultural issues described above. Personally, I've decided to go back. Thanks to Australia, I've attained a renewed vigour to combat racial discrimination and social inequality back in my home country. Slightly digressing: we all can do better than our hunter-gatherer ancestors by declaring a crusade against racism. This Human Migration map is so unifying and inspiring -Source: The Human Journey: Migration RoutesBottom line: If you have a H1B, go to US. But having travelled to Bangalore & Singapore recently, I believe, as long as you handle the smog and congestion, the best place to be during 2015-2020 would be Asia, especially in Bangalore (lots of startups, lots of opportunities including social entrepreneurship, massive consumer-base hungry for innovative products and solutions, lots of funding from Asian and American Venture Capitalists/HNIs. Please refer to this excellent Quora answer - Siddharth Pathak's answer to What is going to be the next "big thing" in the next 5-10 years? ). West had their time; It's time for the East :) Anyway that's the content for another post.