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peabody
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marblez
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| Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 7:25 am Post subject: |
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| Are you accusing teenagers of being immature? |
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peabody
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dyak
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| Yes, the tribal mindlessness of (some of) the English abroad... you were lucky they weren't football 'fans', they'd have tied up the local police force (not literally), attempted to set fire to the town and generally terrorised the locals. |
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Chris_Crossley
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Location: Still in the centre of Furnace City, PRC, after eight years!!!
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| Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 11:01 am Post subject: Boot them out! |
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| dyak wrote: |
| Yes, the tribal mindlessness of (some of) the English abroad... you were lucky they weren't football 'fans', [otherwise] they'd have tied up the local police force (not literally), attempted to set fire to the town and generally terrorised the locals. |
And then get booted out of Australia for good with an appropriate stamp in their passport announcing their deportation.
Bang goes their chance of immigrating to Oz when they retire, but then teenagers don't think in terms of what they may possibly do in half a century's time, do they? (Provided that they live that long, that is .... ) |
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Cardinal Synn
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| Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 11:16 am Post subject: Re: Racism |
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I'm an Australian, living in Australia.
I would say I am "culturalist" rather than racist, in despising the English backpackers who take over my suburb each summer. They regularly walk down the main street of my suburb: knocking garbage cans into moving traffic; jumping onto moving cars along the highway; picking fights with any male walking past; shouting disgusting statements to any woman walking past. They come out here after they finish school and see this year as "the drunken year". Yay us. |
How weird, that's exactly what Australian backpackers do in Edinburgh evrey summer. Your point is? |
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dyak
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Ah... i think we were due another backpacker-bashing thread, no?!  |
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The G-stringed Avenger
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It's just tribalism. A defence mechanism. Put any minority group in a situation where they are surrounded by a majority and they'll tend to stick together, sometimes to the detriment of the majority, sometimes not. Naturally some will be full of bluster and swagger with their safety in numbers. Look at how minority groups in the US, Australia or UK stick together. The white, Anglo-Saxon majorities of these countries don't look out for each other as much as the minority groups do. The English and Aussie backpackers tearing up each others' countries are just another example.
And peabody - you're an Aussie. We beat the Poms at everything! Go out there and beat a few down. You can do it! |
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Magoo
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| And peabody - you're an Aussie. We beat the Poms at everything! |
Rugby, par exemple?
Whinging Poms my @rse!
To be serious, though...nah.
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peabody
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| Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 3:43 pm Post subject: Re: Racism |
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Spinoza
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distiller
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| it's a credit to the English how they are the most likely of all the races on earth to venture abroad |
I agree with your point on racism but is this quote anecdotal or based on something else? I find Brits abroad to be pretty well behaved. However, there is some of the "lad" behavior about. As an American, I know what it's like to cringe at the behavior of your fellow countrymen and countrywomen. Every country has its "bad ambassadors", as Neil Hannon would say. |
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peabody
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Sadken
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| Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 4:52 pm Post subject: Re: Racism |
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| peabody wrote: |
I'm an Australian, living in Australia.
I would say I am "culturalist" rather than racist, in despising the English backpackers who take over my suburb each summer. They regularly walk down the main street of my suburb: knocking garbage cans into moving traffic; jumping onto moving cars along the highway; picking fights with any male walking past; shouting disgusting statements to any woman walking past. They come out here after they finish school and see this year as "the drunken year". Yay us. |
Mate, if I had a pound for every drunken, obnoxious Aussie I have come across in London I would be looking at between 450-500 quid. You get ours, we get yours. |
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XXX
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| I too am not thrilled with the Brits. However, the ones I am talking about are the ones with shaved heads who ruined my beloved Amsterdam. It used to be a truely mellow place. Now it is overrun with these thugs. I haven't a clue as to what garbled gibberish they speak, but is isn't English. And you never want to share a bathroom with ANY of them. I don't think they are housebroken. |
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