Car flags signify racist nature in Australia: Research

Sydney, Jan 24(ANI): A new research in Australia has suggested that people who carry national flags on their cars tend to be 'more racist'.

University of Western Australia (UWA) sociologist and anthropologist Professor Farida Fozdar and a team of assistants carried out the new research.

They examined 513 people during last year's Australia Day fireworks on Perth's Swan River foreshore to discover any link connecting car flag flying with racist mind-set.

The team found that out of the 102 people surveyed on the day with attached flags on their cars on the national holiday, 43 per cent approved with the statement that the now-abandoned 'White Australia Policy' had protected Australia from many troubles faced by other countries.

Only 25 per cent of people who did not fly Australia car flags agreed with the statement, according to Fozdar.

Under the 'White Australia Policy', which was a non-official government policy until after World War II the non-Europeans were debarred from migrating to Australia, The Perth now reports.

According to the survey, total of 56 per cent of people with car flags were scared for the Australian culture and thought that the country's most vital principles were in danger, in contrast with the 34 per cent of non-flag car flyers.

Around thirty-five per cent of flag flyers think that anyone who is born in Australia an only be a true Australian, compared with 22 per cent of non-flag flyers.

An overpowering 91 per cent of people with car flags approved of the fact that people who migrate to Australia should implement Australian values, compared with 76 per cent of non-flaggers.

A total of 55 per cent of flaggers believed migrants should leave their old ways behind, compared with 30 per cent of non-flaggers. (ANI)