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Old 06-17-2004, 04:28 AM
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Anti-Imigrant Imigrant in Australia

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In Perth, there's a family from the north of England who may help explain this uneasiness. They have everything they'd ever wanted: a big house and a successful business.

There are three pictures on the living room wall. Queen Elizabeth is flanked on one side by the legendary footballer George Best. On the other is a portrait of Pauline Hanson, the co-founder of the anti-immigration One Nation party, who in the late 1990s warned that Australia was in danger of being swamped by Asians.

There is a seemingly incompatible situation of a migrant family from England supporting a controversial anti-immigration politician.

Their reasons are simple enough - if unpalatable for many people. Here they are away from the gloom and the cold and they don't want anything or anyone to come in and spoil what they see as their slice of paradise.

They want the drawbridge raised - and the door firmly locked.

As the father explained, they had left Britain to "escape the blacks" and didn't want to have to move again.

Such attitudes are not uncommon here.
Anybody else find this ironic and hypocritical? Read the rest of the story HERE.
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Old 06-17-2004, 08:51 AM
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It's heartening that England became one less ignorant bunch of ******** better off, when they left.

Australia is welcome to them.
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Old 06-17-2004, 09:40 AM
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Re: Anti-Imigrant Imigrant in Australia

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Anybody else find this ironic and hypocritical?
Absolutely.

Unfortunately, not unusual.

Anywhere.
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Old 06-19-2004, 05:00 AM
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It is interesting that many of the South AFrican immigrants left the country before the 1994 election. They all feared that the blacks were going to go postal on the whites. It did not happen and everything is stable. It's also interesting that many of the old Rhodesians are also in Australia.
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Old 06-21-2004, 01:22 AM
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Re: Re: Anti-Imigrant Imigrant in Australia

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Absolutely.

Unfortunately, not unusual.

Anywhere.
Yeah. Unfortunate. Is it posible to be both a citizen of one country and the subject of the Crown?
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