Timber Floor Au

Following on from a few threads of late, and remarks ppl have heard, and situations they have experienced, whilst in Australia.

Whats your thoughts or experiences of racism ?

Does it exist, or when you hear the words, "bloody poms" or "whinging pom" or the like, is it just friendly banter ?

Is their malice in what is said ?

I personally think not. I mean a fellow aussie to a fellow aussie, is referred to as a bloody wanker ( scuse my french ) so to be called that or a f***ing pom ... is it that dissimilar.. or is there an element of racism ?

Ive never experienced the negative aspect, only the matey banter..

Just a thought ....

Ste

stuckinblighty

if somebody called me a brummie i would be highly offended...dunno if thats racism tho'

Timber Floor Au

Must admit, that used to annoy the shit out of me . Esp. as I was from Cov too !

>Trigger<

I came from a country where anyone from Wales was a taff,anyone from
Scotland was a jock,anyone from Ireland was a paddy,anyone from France was a frog....etc,etc

Why, oh why do people get cranky when someone calls them a pom....

stuckinblighty

Depends on what side of cov you're from.

The Tile hill posse do sound a bit brummie.....i'm from the other side

Timber Floor Au

I think its this chip on the shoulder aspect mate. Im in agreement with you. Not meaning to offend, but a fella from India is a Paki ( thats not me being racist, its just what we used to say , even tho geographically its flawed.)
Same here, a ity ( italian ) is a wog...

Whats the big deal being called a Fkn Pom ?

Could always say your from Leicester I spose

Thydney

Could be worse they might call you a scouser

stuckinblighty

dont bloody start man

fairwayskid

That reminded me

A guy i work with was walking buy a school the other day and two polish kids were behind the fence shouting look at the fat paddy

PS they were right

Timber Floor Au

I was on a building site, in Oz.

And the supervisor spotted 4 british fellas taunting a italian fella.

He shouted over.

MICK MAC PADDY WHACK leave the WOG alone !

Vanessa

Took some clients out last weekend for a reccie of Melbourne - they are wealthy but very down to earth. Anyway on the first day I took them to Hawthorn, Canterbury, Toorak and around. Showed them some of the private schools and houses which were OFI. On the Saturday evening they went to the footy with some of the directors of the company who are trying to woo them here. When the lady told one of the wifes where she had been that day and the schools she looked at the wife said "oh you want to get them into XXXX school, very anglo saxon" My client was horrified - her children have lived in China, Singapore and Europe and are very multi cultural, in fact she wants them to learn Chinese as a second language. I think the company may have shot themselves in the foot with that one!

jad n rich

I have a good mate, shes from townsville, 100% aussie, great friend, but OMG at times, shes working in the health industry, tact required, but she freqently refers to clients/co workers as slope heads, coons, blackies, and freely airs her views for all to hear, she quite often gets others joining in,nobody seems that shocked. We also had neighbours from toowoomba, again educated people, the comments about anyone who didnt match up to dulux pure white were pretty shocking, but they hated poms too, told me I was alright as I had 'mixed' with an aussie.


Building sites are usually free for all, sensitive ears just leave them at home

WelshDebzs

Lol quite true as from Cardiff myself have been called a Taff a few times...when I went to Turkey I got called a white chicken Oh was laughing as I was getting quite p off as they kept saying it apparently thats what they call us brits Oh had been there b4 on my second visit I didnt get upset and could laugh about it
I am on facebook too and have a few aussie friends and one of them sent me the aussie insult for aussies and its very insulting and thats the banter they have with each other...
It did worry me when I read the post as we dont have that kinda thing where we live so thought about the kids it all depends what context it is taken I'll have to teach the kids some of the banter so they can give some back too

Debszx

nanny2six

I wouldn't take it seriouslypeople have a go at scousers all the time and me being one of them laugh it off, its not meant by most

nanny2six

I am one