Mark _australia said...
^^^^ Dave you must berate the sh!t out of those of different racial backgrounds calling us "Skips" then huh? Or how Chinese speaking asians in australia pretty much ALL call us terms that, literally translated, mean round-eye or white ghost (a spiritually critical term, ascribing demonic traits to us based on skin tone)?
Or is it easier to criticise aussie folk here
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Leftie-speaking, that is.
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I await the answer to my question
Ok I'll give you a "leftie speaking" answer if that's what you want. It's pretty simple, you said it yourself. 2 wrongs don't make a right. The first thing you teach your kids is that "he did it first" is not an acceptable excuse. If we all worked to that standard then we'd have a race to the bottom and pretty soon anything goes.
The rightie crowd here says migrants should F.I.F.O., well how can you say that unless you think we have the best society and nothing to learn from others? We are supposed to the the best country, so how about we try to lead from the top not copy whatever's convenient to excuse our bad behavior?
Pointing over there and saying "they did it too" doesn't excuse anything.
Pointing at your grandad and saying "he did it too" doesn't excuse anything either - the world has changed. In your great granddad's time it was legal to shoot aborigines, coke had actual coke and bex had a nice dose of morphine to take your headache away. Times have changed.
Second point: you say they "pretty much all" call us names. Not sure of your evidence there. But there are really 2 types of people in the world, those who think "us vs them" and those who think "we're all people, some good some bad".
This is an open forum, not having a beer on the back deck with your mates. The standards are different whether you like it or not.
Ask yourself this question, because I did before I made my first comment.
Along comes a young 8yr old Aussie kid to Seabreeze, typical aussie beach kid, keen to be a kiter or poley, just happens to have grandparents who left Korea to come here. Reads the first 20 posts of this thread. Would he feel hurt?
)...I caught myself singing it to myself (or making similar sounds) last night whilst pushing around a concrete floor grinder in my shed - stopping every few minutes for a swig of ale.
