Yet say bruschetta, antipasto, Peking duck or tandoori chicken and the tables turn. Their eyes light up with delight at these cultural culinary delights which are an accepted aspect of Australia's multicultural society. It may be safe to say that multiculturalism provides a smorgasbord of cultural elements whereby one can adopt those aspects that suit them and reject the aspects that don't. She chose to adopt words of another language in order to insult the inheritor. Today racism is far more dangerous than that.
People prefer to hold underground, under the breath-type of prejudiced views.
Such hidden-racism is the hardest to defeat. But who knows the extent of such racism in Australia. There have only been a few scenarios, albeit memorable, where my race was conspicuously hurled at me. I'm guessing that with the name Fiona Phillips, I was spared from the hard-core verbal wog bashing. Even from that point of view, such gratitude was a form of shame at my Greek heritage that was to continue into adulthood.