Australia suffers its 1st direct terrorist attack.

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I AM ME wrote:yeah for the most part the climate is pretty rough, but if you grow up with it it's ok. Plus i can't imagine life without 4 very distinct seasons. Not to mention a childhood without wintertime fun? i can't even imagine it. Manitoba itself probably has the most Diverse climate in Canada. We have the hottest summers, heat that is the same as most of Aus (excluding central), but then we have Winters that get as cold as Siberian Russia

See, since i've lived most of my life on the west coast, we get the less extreme versions, but still four distinct seasons. In two of them, it rains!

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Korzic wrote:Yes, Australia has a much more diverse culture than Canada (from what I experienced anyways). I really don't want to turn this into a my country is better than yours debate. But I've been to Canada, and travelled it extensively and it smy experience that Australia is more diverse than Canada. If you guys ever come here I'll show you how :)

I think Canada is alot more diverse in the fact that we have a very high immigration rate from everywhere in the entire world. So we can experience all the different cultures.
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If I remember correctly wasn't Vancouver or Toronto the city with the highest percentage of immigrants in the world? Or pretty near the highest.

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Sine wrote:
Korzic wrote:Yes, Australia has a much more diverse culture than Canada (from what I experienced anyways). I really don't want to turn this into a my country is better than yours debate. But I've been to Canada, and travelled it extensively and it smy experience that Australia is more diverse than Canada. If you guys ever come here I'll show you how :)

I think Canada is alot more diverse in the fact that we have a very high immigration rate from everywhere in the entire world. So we can experience all the different cultures.


:nod: Canada is a country of immigrants.

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Yeah Sooz you were right, Vancouver has a HUGE amount of immigration each year. I think it is the highest, or atleast the top five.
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It's quickly becoming China's next capital city.......just kidding of course
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:lol: Sean, you arent far off though. I lived basically my whole life in Vancouver, its got a predominant chinese culture. That just keeps growing. :lol:
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Korzic wrote:What happened in Jakarta has NOTHING to do with Iraq or anything else like that. If you looked into the regional politics, you'll find out a lot of Jemaah Islamiah's feelings against us are for when we kicked the Indonesians out of East Timor and gave them back their independence. East Timor was a territory that was annexed by the Indonesians about 30 years ago. After multiple atrocities, a few years ago we kicked the Indonesians out and installed a UN peace keeping force, primarily consisting of Australians (also some Kiwis). This preceded GWB's election to the White House. The bombing of the Sari club in Bali in 2002 was also before the Iraq kerfuffle and happened during the Afghan war. 202 people lost their lives in that attack after a suicide bomber ran into a corwded night club and blew himself up in the popular tourist destination. Please do some research into the local politics before you ride in on the high moral police horse so you don't look like a fool next time.

And no, terrorism is NOT when an ally is at the wrong end of an attack. Terrorism is used when an attack is launched against civilian targets in a bid to install fear and "terror" among the local populace. Civilian targets in war are for lack of a better term, collateral damage... with terror, they are the targets.


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Sine wrote::lol: Sean, you arent far off though. I lived basically my whole life in Vancouver, its got a predominant chinese culture. That just keeps growing. :lol:


Chinese or Asian? I wouldn't mind (if I had to choose) living in Vancouver or Calgary...But I hate the Canucks! :P I did notice that people treated everyone like people when I was up in Canada (Calgary, Banff, PEI, Nova Scotia area) Real friendly, even the good natured ribbing I got from some guys in Windsor for being a Blues fan. I don't think I once felt or saw a judgmental stare for being asian like I often do here in St. Louis.

Sorry, didn't mean to spam. The terrorists, the fanatical Islamic group IMHO seem to hate everything that has to do with freedom of choice, and equality. Agree with Bush on his policies or not (for the record, I think he approached this war on terrorisim all wrong) The world need to unite against ALL terrorist groups. Be it the Chechens (?spelling?) in Russia, Al Quida, KKK. Governments around the world needs to get together and get rid of all terrorists/hate groups. I'm truely sorry for Australia's loss...
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Mostly Chinese, but you cant really tell. Yeah in Vancouver theres no staring, because the population is pretty much 50/50 between caucasian and asian/indo-canadian etc.

As far as judgemental staring goes, thats gross. That never happens here. Too much diversity.
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