Communicating with others and accepting them as separate and equivalent, and as having both likeness to, and difference from us is challenging and will involve a clash of wills. Richard Sennett 13 observes we feel most uneasy and most challenged by perceiving the 'otherness' of those around us and that we are often afraid of engagement with them, because of the pain that might result from such an exploration into the unknown. However, Yeatman suggests that when people engage in the political project of working out the terms of their co-existence, then despite it being challenging or painful, they form a bond of citizenship in which there is recognition of the other as a valued person and not an as object to be manipulated. I believe Yeatman's model of citizenship provides ideas which, if practised on a wide scale, could lead to a less racist society. Feminism, citizenship and radical democratic politics' in Judith Butler and Joan Scott.
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Although many different groups of people are subjected to racist abuse in Australia, this paper concentrates on racism against people of Asian backgrounds. Current House Hansard. Since 1972, Australia has had a policy of multiculturalism which has had bipartisan support. The uses of disorder. Dr. Cheryl Lange is a Research Associate in the History Department at the University of Western Australia.