freediver wrote on Feb 10
th, 2009 at 7:39pm:
All the immigrants I know are very hard working. Just like all people who grew up poor, tough and made great sacrifices to make the world a better place for their children. People inevitably get spoilt when they are born with silver spoon in hand. That is the reality of Australia today. Immigrants have always made Australia what it is, and their spoilt great grandchildren have always clung to their coattails to try to pretend that they themselves made the sacrifice and deserve their position above those less fortunate. It is no wonder that they have such difficulty accepting the facts.
Well all the immigrants I know, FD, are extremely lazy.
Furthermore, are you talking about third-world or civilised immigrants? The third-worlders I have known are extremely lazy workers (Not to mention liars and scammers) as they come to believe Australia is a free ride, whereas civilsed immigrants are actually educated enough to believe they need to give back something back to the community they've immigrated to.
It's only a misconception that third-world immigrants work harder than the average Australian. This misconception was circulated for YEARS by the eastern/southern European immigrants of the 1950s. Still widely believed today I guess. The 'ocker' image/lazy Aussie image only came about after the late 1960s. Otherwise, Australians saw themselves as rather sophisticated with a good work ethic.
Australians are actually very hard-working people FD, as much as you'd like us to believe otherwise.
Edited: I might just add that I don't consider the immigrants of the 1950s and 60s third-worlders or uncivilised