Turban Explorer

I've heard the PNGers and the Torres Straits Islanders called 'wogs' and 'fuzzies' in Cairns - less common than 'coons' and 'black bastards' - which is pretty standard fare.

scottishcelts

They are in most little nic nac shops around here at the Bayside.

Bernieboy

Have you been nic nacking again

scottishcelts

I love to nic me nacs

daunted

Shop in Bunbury WA been selling them as long as we been here (5years) I love em and certainly dont see them as racist

Bernieboy

You little nacker nicker.

Cheetah7

I agree, no more racist than any 'white' doll wearing western clothing whatever that may be as in Barbie wearing tarty 'western clothing'. Being a bear collector myself, I have been looking for a golly for ages, saw them in our shopping centre but when I went back they had gone.

I also am keen to get a Woody doll, does that degrade American cowboys wearing a hat - I dont think so. Sometimes I think the problem is how we view the object, not the object itself. Now if anyone in Freo knows where they sell Gollies, give me a shout.

scottishcelts

I've never nicked nackers

Cheetah7

Who has been playing with the nacker nickers?

Bernieboy

SC is a nacker who loves to nick.

fish.01

Ah, the bayside...must be catering to the British market ?

Lion in Winter

Maybe one's perception of this depends on where/when one grew up. The problem with the golliwog doll isn't that it is black, but that it represents derisive racial stereotyping with the clown lips and big white grin that people did actually think was acceptable (cf some Tintin stories, etc.). They aren't actual "ethnic" or culturally representative dolls. They don't look like actual people at all, yet that is how black people were represented in Europe and the US (another example would be the black person eating the watermelon slice, etc.). This is the source of the problem - if they were just cuddly dolls, then fine, but they aren't. They are loaded with a long history of prejudice.

I don't know that it's a matter for governmental interference as to whether they should be on sale - just personal good taste I would have thought.

fish.01

Fuzzies yes, heard that...you might know that their nick name during the war was fuzzy wuzzy angels when they helped the australians in png. Wog has been exclusive here to people from the southern med/lebanese who have taken back the word these days....I still won't use it just in case though far less PC in regional qld I've heard...haven't heard coon in brisbane since I was a kid...always hated that word...next time you hear someone in FNQ use it can you kick em in the knackers for me please...

Nice Guy

Racists cheese?

Bernieboy

It ain't the cheese that's racist bro,just the white mother fluckers who eat it