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Old Jul 4th 2004, 10:41 pm
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Is anyone here under any illusions that Australia (in general) actually
likes and welcomes you as a pom??? Do you cling to the ideal that as the
ozzies are poms +200 years, that they will welcome you as one of their
own??? Do you think that as an "immo" you will be no different to the
Croat, Lebanese, Polish, Italian, Chinese guy, especially when competing
for the (less than well paid and rather scarce) jobs??


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Old Jul 4th 2004, 10:44 pm
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Originally posted by kong
    > Is anyone here under any
illusions that Australia (in general) actually likes and welcomes you as
a pom??? Do you cling to the ideal that as the ozzies are poms +200
years, that they will welcome you as one of their own??? Do you think
that as an "immo" you will be no different to the Croat, Lebanese,
Polish, Italian, Chinese guy, especially when competing for the (less
than well paid and rather scarce) jobs??

No:confused:


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Old Jul 4th 2004, 10:46 pm
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It's like anywhere else. If you bignote yourself about how great your
motherland is, about how much the natives are losers, about how much
your lifestyle in your glorious motherland is so much better, than yeah,
the natives are going to call you a dickhead and a retard and ask that
you leave.

Pretty much what happened to you kong, right?

So you're a
pom if you move to Australia? Look on the bright side, you'd be a limey
if you moved to the US.

    :D


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Old Jul 4th 2004, 10:47 pm
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Originally posted by kong
    > Is anyone here under any
illusions that Australia (in general) actually likes and welcomes you as
a pom??? Do you cling to the ideal that as the ozzies are poms +200
years, that they will welcome you as one of their own??? Do you think
that as an "immo" you will be no different to the Croat, Lebanese,
Polish, Italian, Chinese guy, especially when competing for the (less
than well paid and rather scarce) jobs??


Whats your point?


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Old Jul 4th 2004, 10:48 pm
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Originally posted by kong
    > Is anyone here under any
illusions that Australia (in general) actually likes and welcomes you as
a pom???

BLAHH........BLAHH......BLAHH....... AD NAUSEUM!
    :rolleyes:

Kong posting a generalisation..........SHOCK HORROR
    :scared:

Who'd have believed it! ;) :D

Still nothing posted by you
of any worth ! :(


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Old Jul 4th 2004, 10:52 pm
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Every single Aussie I have met has been relaxed, friendly and laid back.

I am sure if you wanted to wind them up then going on about how great
the UK is, or your 'home' will do it. Exchanging compliments about each
others countries is great and in general Aussies respond well to anyone
if friendly to them.


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Old Jul 4th 2004, 10:57 pm
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Originally posted by kong
    > Is anyone here under any
illusions that Australia (in general) actually likes and welcomes you as
a pom??? Do you cling to the ideal that as the ozzies are poms +200
years, that they will welcome you as one of their own??? Do you think
that as an "immo" you will be no different to the Croat, Lebanese,
Polish, Italian, Chinese guy, especially when competing for the (less
than well paid and rather scarce) jobs??

Jesus Daz, you are
like a cracked record, do you ever stop? Ohhh diddums, poor thing, did
people not like you when you were here? I have no idea why :rolleyes:


For the record, Dagboy gets paid an excellent wage & gets on great
with his co-workers, friends & my family. They all think hes great &
yes, they actually like him- alot! But then that probably says more
about him than it does about you doesnt it? :rolleyes:

You need to
get a new hobby :zzz: :zzz: :zzz: .


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Old Jul 4th 2004, 11:01 pm
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Originally posted by kong
    > Is anyone here under any
illusions that Australia (in general) actually likes and welcomes you as
a pom??? Do you cling to the ideal that as the ozzies are poms +200
years, that they will welcome you as one of their own??? Do you think
that as an "immo" you will be no different to the Croat, Lebanese,
Polish, Italian, Chinese guy, especially when competing for the (less
than well paid and rather scarce) jobs??

Well what do you
expect, do you want Australians to treat all Poms in Australia the same
way as members of the royal family are treated when they are over here,
do you expect us to provide each Pom with a mansion overlooking Sydney
Harbour,
a high paying job for life and a chauffeur driven limousine,
do
you expect Australians to bow and curstsy each time they come accross a
pom. Do you expect us to introduce laws that racialy discriminate
against other migrants such as Lebanese,Poles and Chinese to ensure Poms
get jobs ahead of them.


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Old Jul 4th 2004, 11:08 pm
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Originally posted by MrsDagboy
    > Jesus Daz, you are like
a cracked record, do you ever stop? Ohhh diddums, poor thing, did people
not like you when you were here? I have no idea why :rolleyes:
    >
    > For
the record, Dagboy gets paid an excellent wage & gets on great with his
co-workers, friends & my family. They all think hes great & yes, they
actually like him- alot! But then that probably says more about him than
it does about you doesnt it? :rolleyes:
    >
    > You need to get a new
hobby :zzz: :zzz: :zzz: .

Well one Aussie in particular
seemed to warm to me. She married me just over a year back.. I have no
hostility to the Aussies, it is not their fault that they live in a
boring parochial backwater. They are only human, if your media tells
you that Aus is best and you never leave the country, then you will
believe it. I find it odd that I know a few Aussies who love the UK and
will not go back to Aus except for a winter sun break.

As an aussie
Mrs DB, can you seriously write that Oz is not an inward looking
backwater with in ingrained suspision of anything forgein, especially
pom? How often do you get international news which does not have
"sport" in the opening sentence?


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Old Jul 4th 2004, 11:12 pm
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Originally posted by kong
    > Is anyone here under any
illusions that Australia (in general) actually likes and welcomes you as
a pom??? Do you cling to the ideal that as the ozzies are poms +200
years, that they will welcome you as one of their own??? Do you think
that as an "immo" you will be no different to the Croat, Lebanese,
Polish, Italian, Chinese guy, especially when competing for the (less
than well paid and rather scarce) jobs??


What a shame, I
like you am a Brit married to an Aussie and I thought this thread might
interest me.
Hats off to you, you had me fooled for a second untill I
started reading.

In answer to you questions

Yes I am but it is not an
illusion My family in Australia and pretty much every person I have met
on my trips to Australia have welcomed me, not because I am a pom but
because I am another human being who has taken the time to talk to them
as another human being.

No I do not "cling" to the idea that they are
poms + 200 years I believe that they are Australian and I am English.

I
see myself an an equal to any other person regardless of where they come
from and as far as I am concerned no matter where anyone is from as long
as they are living an honest lifestyle then they are fine by me, My
Australian family and friends also have the same beliefs.


Kala


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Old Jul 4th 2004, 11:27 pm
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Well said Kala.

How old are you Kong? You have a very immature attitude
to the world.


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Old Jul 4th 2004, 11:32 pm
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I see myself an an equal to any other person regardless of where they
come from and as far as I am concerned no matter where anyone is from as
long as they are living an honest lifestyle then they are fine by me, My
Australian family and friends also have the same beliefs.


    > Kala


Dont fret lady, such reasonable and liberal feelings of
humanity towrds different cultures will be bashed out of you in Aus, I
give it 5 years tops. Johnny Howard, Tampa, illegal immos chucking
their kids of boats, ring any bells???

Whers that lovely Pauline Hanson
gone?? True aussie battler her mate, shes werent racist, fair dinkum,
she just stood up for us, the true blue dinki di Aussies.


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Old Jul 4th 2004, 11:49 pm
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Originally posted by kong
    > I see myself an an equal to
any other person regardless of where they come from and as far as I am
concerned no matter where anyone is from as long as they are living an
honest lifestyle then they are fine by me, My Australian family and
friends also have the same beliefs.
    >
    >
    > Kala

Dont fret
lady, such reasonable and liberal feelings of humanity towrds different
cultures will be bashed out of you in Aus, I give it 5 years tops.
Johnny Howard, Tampa, illegal immos chucking their kids of boats, ring
any bells???

    > Whers that lovely Pauline Hanson gone?? True aussie
battler her mate, shes werent racist, fair dinkum, she just stood up for
us, the true blue dinki di Aussies.


I'm sorry to disagree
but if it was goin to be "bashed" out of me then it more than likely
would have happened right here in the UK where I live now (On top of
Gatwick Airport) The population of "non brits" around here has more than
doubled in the last few years, yes some of them are here for the ride
but that doesn't mean that I am goin to take the view that they are all
bad people and loose my "liberal views" As I stated earlier anyone who
is living an honest lifestyle is fine by me. I wont change that view for
any governent/society/person because I am a strong enough person to have
my own views.

I kinda understand where you are coming from as some
people I have spoken to in Australia have said extremely racist things
that to be honest have shocked me but I have also had similar things
said to me in the UK. It doesn't mean that I have to agree with them and
I am most certainly not going to let it ruin my life and plans for an
improved lifestyle in Australia with my family.

Kala


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Old Jul 4th 2004, 11:58 pm
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Daz, you contradict yourself at every turn, first aussies cant afford to
leave Australia to move or work overseas, then you post a thread that
the number of aussies emigrating permanently has doubled in last five
years. Then Daily Mail readers (insert name of anyone who doesnt agree
with you) are lesser humans, because they dont like immigrants/many
believe that asyllum seekers are scrounging etc etc, yet Australia is
the only country that, according to you, is inward looking & feeling
threatened by anything foreign? Then we hear you rabbit on about how
great life is in the home counties back in the UK, yet Aussies are
parochial & boring? Ever re-read your posts Daz? Theres a sign tattooed
on your forehead that flashes in neon that says "Boring!!!!" . :zzz:
    :zzz: :zzz:


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Old Jul 5th 2004, 12:05 am
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Originally posted by MrsDagboy
    > Theres a sign tattooed
on your forehead that flashes in neon that says "Boring!!!!" . :zzz:
    :zzz: :zzz:

Really??? The first time I saw that was on the
customs bloke at Sydney KS aiport, even his beagle was having a snooze.


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