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lol. i can only imagine how buggery brings people closer together. :)

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That wasn't quite the hole I had in mind. commonwealth will be done at the recruiting office Monday morning though. :D

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I've never come across so many racist people as in Australia. :thumbdown:

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I was approached by someone at work once who said he was GLAD to see more and more Brits come to Australia rather than inferior Asian immigrants :ohmy::ohmy::ohmy: Australia is too asian now according to him.

He wanted immigration restricted to those from the UK for a good number of years! Restock the gene pool from the mother country! In other words a return to the white Australia policy.

I didn't ask him if they should all have blonde hair, blue eyes and be of aryan background! *****ing Nazi.

I think us Brits get a much easier time of it in Australia than many from other regions of the world.

It could always be worse, you could be Irish!!!!!!!!!!

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That's not been my observation around these parts.

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The only person who greeted me at work stating that they were pleased to have a white person join was a Brit...

there are racists everywhere...full on Nazis or people who are bored with Asians....

perhaps there are lots in Queensland....or traditional areas.... racists I mean...

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:eek::D:rofl::D:D:D so true :sneaky::D:rofl:

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I am Australian, originally from bush (with all sorts mixed up blood) based between Hungary, Turkey and Victoria visiting often (lived past 2/4 years back in Oz, regional and Melbourne).

I agree with later posts, if you are white British/European I cannot see many problems but I am concerned at the neo "white Australia" attitudes that have re emerged not so much publicly but privately, helped by the media and politicians (who do not reflect our diversity)..... for short term political gain appealing or "dog whistling" to mostly (skip) oldies and baby boomers, even though we are in the "Asian century"....:thumbdown:

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In a stable democracy there needs to be people possessing those extreme opinions to act as a counter balance offsetting the other extreme. While I don't agree with much from either of the extremes the presence of both helps to ensure that moderation prevails. :thumbup:

BTW, what do you mean by "Asian century"?

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I hadn't thought of this before. Thanks for raising it. An unexamined life is not worth living or some such....

I do feel a genuine sadness at the hardships faced in the 18th and 19th centuries because of policies such as the Scottish Clearances, The Irish Potato Famine and English convict transportation(about 80000 people). They were harsh times and harsh policies.

But then the Gold Rush increased the population from 400,000 to over a million. Perhaps adding a large dose of optimism, speculation and entrepreneurship to the gene pool.

Other waves of immigration include a German program for vintners in the 1820 -1840's for whom we can thank for the Barossa Valley and Rutherglen wine districts.

Post WW2 European migration and Vietnamese migration in the 70's added so much to the country.

We went to the Immigration museum in Melbourne about 6 weeks ago - an amazing place well worth a visit. The entire top floor was devoted to an exhibition about British child migrants. Very, very moving. It 's only $10 an adult ticket and concessions available. I would actually like to go back again soon

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:confused: Geez, when I see someone wearing a sports short from somewhere else I smile and see it as an opening for a conversation. Wear your sports shirts FFS though you might get a ribbing about the English cricket team from some :lol:

Mind you, feel free to dump on Shane Warne in my presence

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as long as you don't come on a boat you will be fine......

Aussies don't like to hear you compairing everyhing with England, most of them genuinely think Australia is the best country in the world, especially the ones who have never left Oz.

Most people don't really care too much.....as long as you are white. Seriously racism is still alive and well in Oz and there is often discussions on how bad Asian immigrants are and how they are buying up the country.

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I walked past a house on the way to work on the day after Anzac day to discover that a charming chap had put up a swastika flag the previous day!

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Living up in Darwin there is a high majority of Asians and a lot of my support workers are Asian. I had to stand up for one lovely caring support worker as a client of mine was so racisit it was un belivable. I politely spoke to this woman gave her a couple of warnings and it didnt matter what support workers i send if they wernt 100% White Australian she would be abusive. The last time i took her to task about it, she tore into me with the worst abusive language i have ever had simply because i was from the Uk. Out of my 70 elderly or disabled clients she was the first to reduce me to tears. She no longer recieves a service from the company i work for. My area manager encouraged me to put a formal complaint in to our head office as to why i was no longer going to have this person as my client.
My company is very multicultural, with people from Japan, China, Phillipines, India, Finland, Ireland and of course me from the UK. My clients originate from many countries including Greece, Denmark, Belgium and the Uk.
Mandy

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"Asian century" is the expression used to signify that Asia will (or has) become the economic powerhouse of the world (like it had been in past), and for Australia as acknowledged already, our economy has been very dependent on and embedded in Asia e.g. top trading partners, but the social bits lag behind somewhat.....