Fictional Indian family moves into the 'Neighbour'hood; Australians up in arms

[Dauphin]

Wogs is used for mediterranean immigrants. Don't think yourself so special.

[Al B. Sure!]

Wogs is used for mediterranean immigrants. Don't think yourself so special.

Umm... I think you need to look at a map and see where Lebanon is and where the Mediterranean is.

In Australia, the term was applied to Post World War II migrants from the Mediterranean region, North Africa and Southeastern Europe, particularly the Albanian, Egyptian, Greek, Irish, Italian, Lebanese, Maltese, Scottish, Yugoslav and Welsh communities in Melbourne and Sydney[7] - contrasted with the dominant Anglo-Saxon stock of the Australian population.

[Zevico]

Of course, the best way to tell that the Victorians hate Lebanese people is that they voted a Person of Lebanese Descent ("PLD") into Government. And then they voted him out again! Thankfully this proves that their ill-feelings towards the Lebanese people was merely ill-will towards new-comers rather than some deep-seated prejudice towards the PLDs.

Queenslanders have been known to hate PLDs so much that they elected Bob Katter, well known clown and Akubra-hat enthusiast, into a Federal parliamentary seat. So really there's nowhere for the poor Lebanese to go. Everywhere they go they keep getting elected.

The face of the oppressed PLDs, Bob Katter:


Clearly this is PLD Bob Katter having his "Malcolm X" moment for the cameras:


For those interested, the Akubra hat is the Keffiyah of the PLDs--a symbol of rebellion against the prejudice of Australia. This is why Katter is never (what never? Well, hardly ever) seen without it.

[giblets]

Umm... I think you need to look at a map and see where Lebanon is and where the Mediterranean is.

Umm.... I think you need to work on your reading comprehension skills.

[Dauphin]

Umm... I think you need to look at a map and see where Lebanon is and where the Mediterranean is.

Cats are animals, but animals aren't just cats.

[molly bloom]

I know. They call them 'Wogs' or 'Lebs' and consider them little better than criminals.

That's so true. Especially these people:

Professor Bashir, the first woman to be appointed Governor of New South Wales, took up her office on 1 March 2001.

Born, of Lebanese descent, in Narrandera in the Riverina district of New South Wales, and educated at Narrandera Public School and Sydney Girls High School, Marie Bashir gained her bachelor degrees in medicine and surgery in 1956 from the University of Sydney.

Dr Bashir taught at the Universities of Sydney and New South Wales, increasingly working with children's services, psychiatry and mental health services, and indigenous health programs. At the time of her appointment as Governor of New South Wales, she was Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Sydney (a post she took up in 1993); Area Director of Mental Health Services Central Sydney (from 1994); and Senior Consultant to the Aboriginal Medical Service, Redfern (from 1996) and to the Aboriginal Medical Service, Kempsey.

http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/web/common.nsf/key/resourcesSystemTheGovernorofNewSouthWales

Steve Bracks, ex-Premier of the State I used to live in:

Both on my mother’s side and also my father’s side – my father’s side from Zahle in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, and my mother’s side from north of Beirut in the high country in Bikfaya . And my mother’s side of the family – the Davises – they used to be called "Dahvis" and they changed their name to Davis – came to Ballarat and settled there and as hawkers initially buying and selling things with a cart that they had and my father’s side was up in – near Lismore and in Sydney later on in New South Wales.

And after the Second World War – after introductions, my mother and father married and settled in Ballarat so that’s my ancestry in Victoria and the ancestry in Ballarat so it goes back a long way. Not dissimilar to a lot of migrants of that period, you know, that came with nothing, came here because of poverty which was in Lebanon at the time, where the family structure could not sustain the number of people in the family and they were sent to what they thought was going to be the United States of America but ended up on a boat and ended up in Australia. And that’s not an untypical story.
And that’s certainly the case for me as well. So it goes back a long way but because it’s on both sides of the family, some of those cultural originations are still there.

http://www.multiculturalaustralia.edu.au/library/media/Video/id/1073.Steve-Bracks-on-his-family-background

I do so love it when you broadcast your ignorance.

[Hauldren Collider]

For those interested, the Akubra hat is the Keffiyah of the PLDs--a symbol of rebellion against the prejudice of Australia. This is why Katter is never (what never? Well, hardly ever) seen without it.