Thread: Why cant I simply be Australian

I was brought up in the lower years of school in Marrickville one of the so called Wog part of NSW then in the Chipping Norton Predominately Anglo backed round students, I copped heaps of slack there but kids are kids and ignorance is hand me down sometimes. but I held my own

I remember being 19 and going into town for new years with a few mate, mix culture. We where jumped by middle eastern appearance thugs as the fight went on I could here screaming stop stop he is one of us they assumed I was of middle eastern appearance so they stopped the fight

So there is racial hatred in the country which is so sad and it cuts me up to an extent

its funny as I listen to all sorts of music from classical opera to heavy metal and Turkish music when I blair Turkish music with out doubt I get a bunch of Anglo youths look at me wearied but often turn away however the opposite when I play Metalica of the sort its people of usual middle eastern appearance that look at me in a weird way also

My wife also is a bitza English French and German decent who knows what else

As most of you have said love this country and would wear Aussie pride on my back any day but racial hatred has to stop you and us business does any body else ever get this

Anglo folks do you get paranoid when you see bunch of blokes of Middle eastern or Asian appearance and if there are any Middle eastern or Asian dissented blokes here do you feel that you get looked at with paranoia

I think I better stop listening to 2GB now there a rasist mob

romper stomper was meant to disgust.

It was also meant to be discussed...

It is a commentary on contemporary racism and its potential to flair through ideologically motivated, messed up, disenfranchised mainstreamers.

For those who feel oppressed in their homeland, justified or not, revolution is a stones throw away.

Originally Posted by numpty

First generation Aussie like yourself. My parents came out as 10 pound tourists on a boat from the Old Dart in 1949 with my older brother and sister and I was the first of our clan born here. Apart from my sister, the others were neutralised about 20 something years ago.

Perry ya need to check ya spelling, I had my cat neutered, so you trying to tell us that ya whole family have taken after my moggy

As far as I am concerned if a person is happy to call themselves Australian no matter what ethnic background they have or how long they have here then that is great. Being Australian means accepting Australias values, traditions and laws. I dont care whether the person has been here for a day or for generations if they accept the Aussie way of life.
What I dislike is those people who come to Australia, have all the benefits of the Australian way of life but still themselves some other nationality.

Ian

fifth generation Irish convict blood on paternal side, (with some Welsh and German in there too. The German history is saucy ) as well as rumoured indigenous blood.
Maternal side second generation English, (although GrandDad was born in London, he was only a few months old when he came here and was fiercely Australian) fifth generation Anglo Saxon on maternal grandmothers side

Yet I've copped all my life.....
"where do you come from ?" I'm an Aussie. "no, where are you from?" here "you're not" yes I am, I was born here "where were your parents born ?" here. "Grandparents ?" and so on.
Hell, I've had Italian's try to talk to me in Italian (I can only swear ) Spaniards and Greeks the same, yet at High School, my nickname was 'Boong'
Don't worry about it. It makes the world interesting.

Myself i think that uncomfortable feeling is more of a being around strangers type feeling, i get that feeling being around any strangers no matter what background they are.

Baz.

Originally Posted by RobHay

Perry ya need to check ya spelling, I had my cat neutered, so you trying to tell us that ya whole family have taken after my moggy

Naa, we call it Neutralised too. One of my best mates was born in the old Dart, but the whole family were neutralised when he was still at school. As Chris says, they all had to have lobotomies to fit in

Originally Posted by rick130

fifth generation Irish convict blood on paternal side, (with some Welsh in there too) as well as rumoured indigenous blood.
So, after all that, I'm tall and very very dark "possibly of Southern or eastern Mediterranean appearance "would be the Police description.

I've copped it all my life.....
"where do you come from ?" I'm an Aussie. "no, where are you from?" here "you're not" yes I am, I was born here "where were your parents born ?" here. "Grandparents ?" and so on.
Hell, I've had Italian's try to talk to me in Italian (I can only swear ) Spaniards and Greeks the same, yet at school, my nickname was 'Boong'
Don't worry about it. It makes the world interesting.

Now there's a coincidence, that was my knickname at school and i don't have an indigenous background (lots of time at the beach)

I think the most important thing is how your friends and family see you, as long as you have friends that like you for who you are, then that's all that matters.

Baz.