Excuse me please, what is a typical Australian?

It is important for humans to define almost everything we come across.  If we cannot define it it makes us uncomfortable and uneasy.  Perhaps the worst kind of social or cultural definition that we can make is a general assumption based on race.  Racism manifests itself in comments and gestures designed to antagonise, exclude or humiliate people with no other basis than biological lineage or the geographic location assigned to one's birth.  As Australians, we are exposed to rhetoric from our leaders almost daily about what it is to be Australian.  Particularly during the recent federal election we were bombarded with comments aimed at 'ordinary working Australians'.  But what exactly is an ordinary Australian?  Is it even possible to define what a typical Australian is?  As you are trying to answer this question with jingoistic notions of BBQ's and hills hoists, consider also whether anybody is actually a typical Australian.  Throughout the course of human history perhaps only the indigenous Australians could even hope to come close to being defined as typical Australians and even then, what would constitute normal behaviour in one cultural group would be quite the opposite in another even though they exist within the same physical continental border.  Or consider also the fact that Poland has actually moved physical location and is now located in a completely different location than it once was.  And consider also that any notion of acceptable cultural behaviour is exactly that, a cultural construction based on an evolution of what is an accepted set of behaviours within a particular society.  So considering all this, if somebody is born outside the geographical border of Australia, and then comes to Australia and exists peacefully with those around them, would you then consider them a legitimate Australian or even typical?  Of course we can! Everybody currently living in Australia is a typical Australian.  An unbelievable amount of different personalities make up this world and it is only when we stop trying to define them that we can hope to live together as people.  It is only when we realise that the notion of nationalism or race in anything other than a biological sense relating to physical attributes is completely false.  The idea that Australians are loyal to their mates is as ridiculous a statement as 'the French are rude' or 'Germans are serious'.  Statements like this seek to homogenise a culture and evoke a sense of nationalistic pride with the goal of perpetuating the idea that the Nation State is somehow an entity in itself.  In recent news in Australia we have seen Sam Newman call a Malaysian man "a monkey", we have seen Stephanie Rice refer to a losing football team as "faggots", a channel 9 cameraman Simon Fuller call a Middle Eastern man a "fucking terrorist" and countless other acts of racism within Australia recently.  The Cronulla riots, the NT Intervention, the way Indian students were treated in Melbourne and last but not least Hey Hey it's Saturday's Blackface stunt all serve to make a statement to the world that Australia is a racist nation.  Even the UN has recently expressed concern that our foreign policy relating to the way Afghan and Sri Lankan asylum seekers were excluded from the process of application temporarily.  We need people to stand up and say to the world that we are not a racist nation and there are many good people here who realise that race and nationality is as flimsy a concept as trying to define countries by drawing lines on a map or trying to sum up a person's whole way of life in a national title.  What we need is people to stand up and say 
Sam Newman, you sir are a fuckwit and you continually try to prove it to us. 
Stephanie Rice, you used an inappropriate derogatory term for homosexuals as an insult and that was stupid.  You need to review your vocabulary (especially if you are going to tweet it). 
Simon Fuller, you are in need of some re-education if you truly believe that someone's ethnicity defines them as a terrorist. 
Hey Hey it's Saturday, your time has passed and four words sum you up - 'shit then, shit now'. 
Everyone must work together to build awareness around this topic because I do not want to live in an Australia where racism is viewed as acceptable behaviour.
People are people and deserve respect. 
Peace.
(The photo was taken in Australia at the Cronulla riots)