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Re: Australian Attitudes II
Originally Posted by Dawn Adams
(Post 6767435)
Was that emigrate, or colonise?
We have been back in Australia for almost two years, and I'm feeling a stranger in my own country. Koreans everywhere: voices on radio, tv, supermarket announcements, banks... you name it. I'm trying not to be um... what's the word - racist?.. but I am getting seriously overwhelmed and teed off because I find the voices, clothing, car number plates, "Korean restaurants so in my face. I've always been in favour of Australia being a salad bowl of people from different places and I now find my interest quickens when I meet someone not from Korea, there are so few of them. |
Re: Australian Attitudes II
Originally Posted by bobbyftm
(Post 6768158)
Now ! Now ! That's downright rude !;)
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Re: Australian Attitudes II
People who criticise tops are specifying the extremes.
Violence, at one end and Chav ignorant behaviour, down to the silliness of a whole family wearing them at the other. Also you need to take into account whether the people are expats or migrants. If you want to be a migrant, you don't need to generally advertise your nationality of origin on a day to day basis - it will stand by itself - to come out maybe at internationals. If you want to be an extreme professional expat - that is your choice but I personally don't think it can be beneficial in the long run to anyone other than your ghetto of like-minded people. I don't wear English or Australian tops, in fact and have no intentions to ever do - although I do have an old Super 12 top - but I see this as a club thing, not a national thing. I do have a very old South African rugby top which I wear once in a blue moon (bit of a story with that one) and in fact it stays in the drawer. But rugby is very international in flavour, bit of a brotherhood (sisterhood). |
Re: Australian Attitudes II
Personally, I love the variety that migration brings to Australia and I wish people would still hang onto what they identify with...as long as it does not denigrate other people...I prefer to live in a 'multi-grained bread world'..instead of the 'sliced white bread world' I grew up in.....I just wish we could all be more tolerant.
I watched with horror as three of our kids who were not born here, and came with no English, absorbed so quickly the accent and idioms as they learnt English. Their mother and I have been adamant in them attending weekend language school to formalize their abilities with their 'mother tongue'..Why not? ... it gives them a boost with their VCE results. |
Re: Australian Attitudes II
Originally Posted by jimbo_d
(Post 6767417)
It's nothing new, you see plenty of British chavs wondering round Europe covered in football strips, some people it appears only have a wardrobe consisting of football jerseys, so to see them in Australia really isn't a surprise. Football tops should be worn when either watching a game or playing a game, otherwise left in the drawer.
also if i visit France i wear my stripey jumper and beret etc. i draw the line with the onions though! |
Re: Australian Attitudes II
Originally Posted by cockney pommy
(Post 6768659)
ok what about a smaller non cosmo place like kent - where there is virtually no aussies?
i guarentee the aussies could show off to their hearts content and most of the locals would love it - because they are not used to coming across aussies - they're a novelty ask any aussie bloke (within reason) the reaction from a pommy girl(outside london) when she hears his accent |
Re: Australian Attitudes II
Originally Posted by spartacus
(Post 6767486)
I think David Mellor might disagree.;)
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Re: Australian Attitudes II
Originally Posted by bu1lder
(Post 6770270)
i agree, you should dress as the locals do............like when i go to spain i blend in a treat with my huge sombrero and straw donkey, people think i'm spanish.
also if i visit France i wear my stripey jumper and beret etc. i draw the line with the onions though! Altogether now "i have a big sombrero it is a big sombrero I only wear it because the sunshine gets in my eyes and I cannot see at all" |
Re: Australian Attitudes II
Originally Posted by spartacus
(Post 6771152)
:lol:
Altogether now "i have a big sombrero it is a big sombrero I only wear it because the sunshine gets in my eyes and I cannot see at all" |
Re: Australian Attitudes II
Originally Posted by rabsody
(Post 6771157)
"ooh, shuddupa ya face!"
That's a different song, so shuddupa youself! Cheeky lady! ;) |
Re: Australian Attitudes II
Originally Posted by spartacus
(Post 6771165)
:lol:
That's a different song, so shuddupa youself! Cheeky lady! ;) |
Re: Australian Attitudes II
Originally Posted by rabsody
(Post 6771168)
"what's a matter you?"
"Gotta no respect!" |
Re: Australian Attitudes II
Originally Posted by jimbo3030
(Post 6768718)
...Looks dodgy when it's not the English you're sick of, eh?....
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Re: Australian Attitudes II
Originally Posted by spartacus
(Post 6771152)
:lol:
Altogether now "i have a big sombrero it is a big sombrero I only wear it because the sunshine gets in my eyes and I cannot see at all" |
Re: Australian Attitudes II
Originally Posted by jimbo_d
(Post 6767417)
Football tops should be worn when either watching a game or playing a game, otherwise left in the drawer.
You can't be serious! :huh: |
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