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Don't blame entire Australia for racial attacks: Dalai
Press Trust of India, Wednesday June 10, 2009, Indore

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Describing the attacks on Indian students in Australia as 'disappointing', Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Wednesday said it would be wrong to blame the entire nation for the acts of a few people.

"The attacks on Indian students is disappointing but only a handful of people were behind it," the Nobel Laureate told reporters in Indore.

"It would be wrong to generalise the entire country or society as racist on the basis of a few incidents. In my view, this is wrong," he said.

The behaviour of the native Australians is fast turning positive towards people of other cultures who have settled there, the spiritual leader said.

Dalai Lama, who was here to deliver a lecture on 'Compassion and Non-Violence' and interact with students of the Indian Institute of Management, noted that "racism was fast disappearing from the globe".

"Be it Malaysia in Asia or England in Europe, the walls of division are fast crumbling", he said.

"Differences between the Whites and Blacks have become a thing of the past in the United States of America," the Noble Laureate said pointing out that Afro-American Barrack Obama was now the president of the US.

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Posted by Ondulino on Aug 31, 2009
Rajesh.. situation of Gypsies in Europe is a bit different issue, this sort of 'rasisim or discrimination' is not based primarily on skin color but their attitude to life and integration in the society....
Posted by Rajesh on Jun 25, 2009
Dalai Lama is right. You can not blame all the Germans for holocaust, you can not blame all Australian for the state Aborigines are in, you can not blame all the Czechs for the treatment of Gypsies AND YOU CAN NOT BLAME CHINA FOR ATTACKS OF TIBETIANS IN MARCH 2008 BY FEW CHINESE.
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