Greeks in 20th centry Britain +20th cntry Australia versus Greeks in Germany + the US

[hobbit.]

The greeks haven't mattered in 2000 years. The only thing they got now is being used as a euphamism for assfucking.

sex with animals?

Greeks aren't called wogs in Britain. In fact, the word went out of fashion in the seventies. Back then it meant "black".

pedantic twat.

Italians and Greeks were called wogs in the 1950s because there were thousands of immigrants from those countries who took time to assimilate. Brits can still be called Poms because although they claim to speak the same language some of them affect a non-existent superiority over Australian-born people which causes resentment.

Ten-Pound Poms is an even worse insult - referring to those who paid ten pounds a head to emigrate to Australia. Many of them did that because they were failures in the UK and proceeded to fail in Australia as well.

most of the ities i knew in the 70s found the phrase WOP funny - with out papers - most were tax dodging fuckers anyway, decent chaps, but tax dodgers!

fucking autralian crim bastards though!!

 

[oggbashan]

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They grew up corresponding online with kids from all sorts of countries who have the same preoccupations and knowledge that they have.

So did I and my same-age relations (and my children's generation as well).

We went on foreign exchanges, had foreign penpals, housed foreign children learning English...

My parents toured Europe in the 1920s and 30s staying at Youth Hostels. My father spoke five languages beyond English, my mother three, my sister in law was a translator for the UN in English, German, French, Italian, Arabic and Yoruba...

My eldest speaks Mandarin and Cantonese as well as most European languages. The next has been a reporter for local newspaper specialising in the events of the twin towns - German and French because she was the only one on the staff who was fluent in both. My youngest and her husband speak Brazilian Portuguese and South American Spanish. My eight-year-old granddaughter is learning French but is already fluent in Japanese...


PS: As a Boy Scout, I had badges to 'prove' that I could converse in French, German, Italian and Spanish. I was doubtful about the Spanish. What I learned was Llanito - the patois spoken in and around Gibraltar. That has as much relevance to Castilian as Breton does to Parisian.

 

[colddiesel]

I'm aware that I'm piling on Aussies &kiwis and denigrating them. I, too am starting to sound like a classist cunt: calling their small-towners anti-intellectuals, oakies and so on.

But what shocked me & blew me off was their wog-this wog-that superior, smug attitude towards Italians and Greeks. Out of all nationalities.

I have lived as a migrant in Oz for years. To say that Australians are this or that is inconsistent with reality. 30% of the population was born overseas and 50% has a foreign born parent. The 'wog' thing was going out of date in the 80's/90's, the only thing I notice is that the slightly older migrants tend to insult the latest group to turn up.

And ask your local Italians and Greeks what they think of the Aborigines who emigrated to OZ 60,000 years ago. Not pretty!

 

[mayfly13]

I have lived as a migrant in Oz for years. To say that Australians are this or that is inconsistent with reality. 30% of the population was born overseas and 50% has a foreign born parent. The 'wog' thing was going out of date in the 80's/90's, the only thing I notice is that the slightly older migrants tend to insult the latest group to turn up.

And ask your local Italians and Greeks what they think of the Aborigines who emigrated to OZ 60,000 years ago. Not pretty!

Yes good points, thanks.

I also browsed more blogs/articles,
and wow... Indian men are being taught that they're superior to the entire womankind and that their culture is superior. Chinese -underneath the fake modest persona - think of themselves as superior to anybody But Germans.
----I used to have this subconscious bias in which I secretly looked down upon East and South Asians, and to find out that they, too think they're superior to E/SE/S Europe? Crazy.

We're just like rural anti-intellectuals I was referring to, who don't see how unsophisticated they are, yet they think they're superior to everybody else. Or prince William, who looks like a toad yet he's so smug and thinks he's good looking.




Every flee-infested donkey thinks it's exceptional. I suspect that only African Fijians, Australian Aboriginals and Native Americans don't suffer from some form of secretive exceptionalism.

What are other of your observations on these issues?
As a UK/Scottish immig to a new World country, you must have noticed things that I & others didn't.