Racial Prejudice In Australia

The Prejudice Plague
Imagine yourself being an outcast, completely alone to your own defences unable to interact with others because they submit you to both violent and verbal racial prejudice that brings you to tears. How would you like it if someone you have never met hated you with every fibre of their being for you just being yourself? To be marginalised for not being a part of the majority. Imagine your parents unable to understand why you so desperately want to make friends when they only know negative stereotypes of the society they are trying to assimilate into. How is it possible for a child to reach their full potential if they are degraded as worthless human beings every day. This is a daily reality of multicultural youth attempting integrate into Australian schools.
The above definition defines the everyday reality of what multicultural youth face as they attempt to assimilate into not only Australian society but school life as well. Many teens of migrant or refugee background struggle with isolation and mental illness which is directly associated from experience of racial abused faced from their peers without support from their parents for only knowing negative portrayals of the society they are attempting to assimilate into Australian civilisation. Additionally, in attempt to blend into the school’s social quo they stop adhering to their culture and traditions of origin leading to cultural identity