`G'day sport' deemed racist

London - A British schoolboy who greeted an Australian classmate with the traditional greeting of "G'day sport" has been reprimanded…

London - A British schoolboy who greeted an Australian classmate with the traditional greeting of "G'day sport" has been reprimanded for racism.

Teachers at Beverley Grammar School in Yorkshire, northern England, also made the 11-year-old pupil write 60 lines of "I must not use racist remarks" as punishment. They said the bullying had now stopped.

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