It is very old fashioned now.
Not sure if you're in Oz or not, but here in the UK things have changed. There's still a lot of it about, as you can see from some of the responses here, but racism has changed.

I was watching a TV program a while ago, where a bunch of kids had got into a fight, and a black kid had got a bit of a pounding.

The copper asked the black kid what happened, and the general answer was that one of the other kids had been racially taunting him, and had given him a kicking. "But", said the black kid "I'm used to it, he does it all the time".

"No, it's not like that anymore", say the copper, and arrests the yob for racially aggravated assault.

I was really quite pleased to see that. It really *isn't* like that any more. Maybe 25 years ago when I was a kid, it was. But attitudes have changed.

My grandparents wouldn't have thought twice about casual and open racism. My parents might have thought it, but kept it to themselves.

We're the generation that can change it.

I hope my kids (who are actually mixed race, but it isn't very obvious) grow up to hate racism.
(username failed moderation, Mon 31 Oct 2011, 9:00, 2 replies)

I think we already have.
Sadly intolerance will appear in all sorts of nooks & crannys.
I like that my daughter knows "Kia ora".
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Mon 31 Oct 2011, 9:31, closed)

The future is brown!
Everyone should have brown babies - when all the kids have to remember all the different components of their genetic mix, racism will simply be too much effort. I mean, how can you shout "Go back where you came from" to an Anglo-Polish-Brazilian-Angolan?
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Mon 31 Oct 2011, 10:17, closed)