torzio
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- Location
- Eastern Australia
- Ethnic group
- North East Italian
- Y-DNA haplogroup
- T1a2 - SK1480
- mtDNA haplogroup
- H95a
Aside from ethnicity, the Catholic faith of the Italian or Irish migrants, for instance, played also a significant role for their discrimination in the USA. In addition to that, many Italian and Irish migrants were very poor and came from rural places. In general people who are poverty-stricken, and so-called "peasants" will face discrimination regardless of their ethnic background. So, it's not only the "wrong" ethnicity that causes discrimination. Besides, the WASP were the top dogs in the USA and Germans and Swedes were also below them. In Australia the majority was also Protestant. Anyway, today Italo-Australians are well integrated, and regarded just as white Australians. Same goes for Canada. On the other hand, the Australian Aborigines who have gained more acceptance, are still pretty marginalized and live as bad as Native Americans in the reservation.
Religion is not a factor in Australia now as it was in the beginning under English rule .................when protestant English transported catholic Irish to Australia.
There is stated that no religion is part of Australia Constitution .......it is blank .............over the last 3 census ( 1 every 10 years ), the % of people that follow No-religion in Australia has increased and sits second on the chart at 30 something % , christian is first with 54% .........................
There is also a push from some societies of the puplic, that until all religious groups/instituations prove that they have gender equality and a woman can eventually lead a religious group/instituation , then the push from these societies is to target these religious institutions...but this is another side issue in Australia