AnswerID: 66209 Submitted: Friday, Jul 02, 2004 at 21:28
Jimbo
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It's sad that so many people who choose to make this country their own still claim to be of another race. If you choose to live in this fine land become an Australian.
I am the offspring of migrants. I once asked my Grandfather "Grandad why don't you go back to England for a visit?" He said "Jimmy I came here 35 years ago for a better life, better opportunites. I left the place because I didn't want to be there anymore, and this place is so much better, except for the Fish 'n' Chips. Why would I want to go back to the cold, the damp, the cramped living?"
My Grandad is now gone and never returned to the Mother country. My mother arrived here as an eleven year old in 1956 and considers a visit to England as the same as a visit to Hong Kong; a trip to a foreign country (she has done both plus much more; the benefit of growing up in this fine land of opportunity). My mother sees herself as an Australian and nothing else, and she's a republican.
My cousin and his wife migrated from England in 1981 and I call him my Pommy cousin. Recently I called their son "
young pom" amd his mother immediatley shut me down saying "He's an Aussie, not a Pom" and she's still got a broad pommy accent, God love her.
Funny how certain races really assimilate and others don't. Why do certain third generation Australians still consider themselves Greeks, Croations, Poles or whatever.
Disappoints me really.
Jim.
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FollowupID: 327077 Submitted:
Friday, Jul 02, 2004 at 23:47
Lyds posted:
Now there's the Aussie spirit - not.
I think its sad that you'd prefer to forget/ignore/deny your family's past just to be an "Aussie". C'mon Jim, don't you feel anything whenever you see, read, or hear of the
places that your relo's came from?
If we were all like you we'd all follow the same footy team.
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