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Conflict Is Often Bron of Ignorance and Intolerance
David is known as an ordinary Australian. Steady job as a carpenter, married with 2 kids and lives in the city.
David Smith is recognized by his mates as a ‘racist’ as his knowledge on other cultures is low and has carried morals from the generation before him who were also racist.

After a hard day of work David arrives home to realize the ‘For sale’ advertisement next to his house was removed.
Entering his house he is greeted with his two children James Smith and Destiny Smith

James: “Dad, have you seen the new neighbours?”

David with a smile replies: “Nah mate, not yet”

Jesse (David’s wife): “Well you are soon, I’ve invited Mr. Ajmal Khan, Mrs. Badrai Khan and their son Abdul Khan to dinner with us tonight as a welcoming party, they’re a nice refugee family”

David in shock immediately said: “What!? Are you telling me that some queue jumpers have stolen a house that could be an Australians house. The unemployment rates are sky rocketing remember”

Jesse with a sigh of exasperation replied: “Uh, you’re so full of arrogance, Ajmal works in a rug making store, look he even gave us a free rug for our hospitalisation”

David: “What about us good hard working Aussies? Getting our jobs stolen by those queue jumping monkeys”

Jesse in anger yelled: “DAVID!!” “We are having dinner with them tonight and you’re joining”

David: “Yeah right, I’ll just whip up some curry from the ground and beg them not to bomb our house down”

Jesse stormed out of the room in frustration

Destiny: “Dad, why would they bomb our house?”

David: “Because they’re filthy refugees, they come on a boat, make up some pathetic story about their lives then expect us to give them free stuff”

James: “What does God think about our neighbours?”

Being that David and Jesse are both religious under Christianity they’ve raised both their children to follow the same faith:

David: “God doesn’t care for them”

David walks out of the house, slamming the door on the way

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