Well, some ANU researchers have found that having a non-Anglo name can make it much harder to get a job.
The study, conducted by ANU economists Professor Alison Booth and Professor Andrew Leigh from the Research School of Social Sciences, in conjunction with researcher Elena Varganova, estimated discrimination by sending over 4000 fake CVs to employers in response to job advertisements in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.
“By varying the names on the CVs, we were able to estimate precisely the extent of hiring discrimination,” said Professor Booth. “Because all other characteristics are held constant, we can be sure that we are really measuring discrimination.
“To get the same number of interviews as an applicant with an Anglo-Saxon name, a Chinese applicant must submit 68% more applications, a Middle Eastern applicant must submit 64% more applications, an Indigenous applicant must submit 35% more applications, and an Italian applicant must submit 12% more applications.
You can read the full 47-page paper here. I'd love to see how the ayatollahs of ethnic and religious chauvinism, the Bolts and ALbrechtsens and Blairs and Akermans and Sheehans of our media, will get around this evidence in their attempts to prove Australia is a racism-free zone. Or maybe they could try and get a job in India ...
Words © 2009 Irfan Yusuf
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3 comments:
This research is pretty much an echo of a report last month from Canada. I suspect it rings somewhat true in any country.
There was also a recent study somewhere that showed babies as young as a few months old prefer speakers who speak a familiar language (even though they can't understand a word).
Why don't you get a job in India? You begging for food or cock and semen to feed your repulsive fat gut would be a good job for you. Men and women could pay you to lick their arseholes clean of curry-flavoured shit.
It was obvious to everyone by the time you turned 10 that you would be a useless sad lonely Paki fuck-up with mental problems forever a burden on Australians. No Aussie man or woman will ever have sex with you. Go back to India and beg for love from some untouchable or leper. At least in India you can find a cow wandering the streets and sexually abuse it Irfan-style without going to jail.
Next time you are having a cry about how pathetic your medicated life is please just go and do that weight-loss program where you throw yourself in front of a train. If there's anything worse than a smelly Paki it's a smelly obese Paki.
Re: Anglicising names.
Actually, if I got two CVs, one from a guy with a respectable South Asian name like "Irfan Yusuf", and another from some dude named "Mystical Joseph", I know who I would be biased towards.
The latter sounds like some Left-wing, pot-smokin' Hippie, dammit!
:-)
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