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Acid Monkey Gold Member Offline Goth Father Posts: 1064 EU Gender:	Re: People who assimilate into our Aussie culture Reply #60 - Aug 18^th, 2008 at 12:59pm Hi Bliss, Welcome. Nice of you to share and to give us a glimpse into your background and family. It's great to see that your family aren't obligated to discard the "old life" when coming here.
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Reply #61 - Aug 20^th, 2008 at 11:24am

Perhaps they should scrap the aussie values test and just place a few Borg at the immigration desk when you arrive?

My ancestry on almost all sides has been here since the 1850's, and I personally don't feel any need to ask anyone to 'assimilate', nor do I think there's any homogenous 'Australian culture' that they could assimilate to anyway. Australia is a fairly individualist society, and the fact that about 25% of us were born overseas anyway means that the vast majority of us simply do not share the exact same culture. I noticed this even as a child growing up, that even though other kids were 'Aussie' like me (as opposed to the greek, korean and italian we had in our class) we still didn't share the same culture fully, only to a very limited extent.

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jordan484 Gold Member Offline Genuine Aussie Posts: 1115	Re: People who assimilate into our Aussie culture Reply #62 - Aug 20^th, 2008 at 11:44am Only people who don't fit into the "real Aussie" claim that there is no "real Aussie".
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abu_rashid Gold Member Offline Aussie Muslim Posts: 8353	Re: People who assimilate into our Aussie culture Reply #63 - Aug 20^th, 2008 at 12:15pm I don't actually know what "real Aussie" or "Genuine Aussie" is, but I agree, I probably don't really fit into it, and I suspect neither do a lot of other Australians.
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Reply #64 - Aug 20^th, 2008 at 1:06pm

i lament the demise of the 'old' australia. but it isnt the fault of immigrants. they do not shape the nation. it is the hidden agenda of our governments puppeteers that have changed us forever..

native french will soon be a minority in france. some other european natives already are.....one wonders why this has been designed? of course, it is about controling nationalism. it is about control of citizens for a world government.

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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 53204 At my desk.	Re: People who assimilate into our Aussie culture Reply #65 - Aug 20^th, 2008 at 3:04pm jordan484 wrote on Aug 20^th, 2008 at 11:44am: Only people who don't fit into the "real Aussie" claim that there is no "real Aussie". Even most 'real Aussies' are prepared to acknowledge the reality of our multicultural scoiety Jordan.
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Reply #66 - Aug 30^th, 2008 at 5:21pm

roflmao aboo..

"Perhaps they should scrap the aussie values test and just place a few Borg at the immigration desk when you arrive?"

If you can't pass that simple test you don't really want to be Australian.

My ancestry on almost all sides has been here since the 1850's, and I personally don't feel any need to ask anyone to 'assimilate', nor do I think there's any homogenous 'Australian culture'
that they could assimilate to anyway.

Probably because your family have always lived in an enclave or failed to associate with or become Australian.

Australia is a fairly individualist society, and the fact that about 25% of us were born overseas anyway means that the vast majority of us simply do not share the exact same culture.

Then why stay here? Why come here? Surely if you don't want to be Australian you'd be happier elsewhere.

I noticed this even as a child growing up, that even though other kids were 'Aussie' like me (as opposed to the greek, korean and italian we had in our class) we still didn't share the same culture fully, only to a very limited extent.

rotflmao they were what? greek? Korean? Italian? hmmm.... thanks for proving my point.

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