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My suburb is very multicultural. I live amongst many many Indians, Africans, and Koreans. The girls go to a small but very multicultural school. When sitting at the train station or something and bored shittless it's always fun to have a quiet game of 'Spot the Aussie'!
Most of the shops here are owned by different cultures and most take-aways are Chinese, Indian, etc and most butchers are Halal.
I love it here, I love all the different people. I love that my girls are getting the best education with different cultures. They learn alot from their many friends. Jalises best friend is a lovely little Indian girl and her parents are the nicest people I've met. Alot find it hard to speak english, my neighbour is from Korea but her and her husbands English are picking up very well and I'm happy to be playing a big part in that.
What is it like in your suburb/town? What are the people like?
There is only a couple of Chinese, that i have seen, around here, everyone else seems to be Aussie/English, oh i think there are some Canadians up the road also.
Spot the AUSSIE? Um, probably most of them are Australian, just not caucasian.
where we live its more Aussie European, my DH his family came out to Aus from Germany 50 yrs ago went straight to a migrant camp just 15 mins from where we live the camp was full of German, Polish the likes, so there are still a lot here because the familys did'nt move away from the town where the camp once was, funny, until i met DH i just thought we were all Aussies lol
When we moved here 26 years ago, all my immediate neighbours were white Australian (sounds terrible saying that).
I now have Chinese, Armenian and Lord only knows where they have come from I called in when they arrived a month or so ago, but the Lady doesn't speak English) but their religion is obviously Muslim plus 3 lots of White Australian.
I am currently working at a High School that has students from all over the world as part of the school is for IEC students (Intensive English).
My son and myself have friends from Indonesia, South Africa , Korea, England, Peru, Chile, USA and the Philippines.
I have friends who have adopted children from Colombia and Roumania.
I love a multicultural society.I just wish that everyone would realise that we have so much to learn from each other.
Spot the AUSSIE? Um, probably most of them are Australian, just not caucasian.
Yeah well I guess some might be born in Australia, but not many. I know most of the parents at the school and almost all of them are migrants. Indians being the biggest percentage.
The uni is up the road and most students are from overseas learning English and other studies. The mayor migrated here from trouble in Africa in 1964 and has been here in this suburb since then, I just met him the other day while in his shop, he's a really nice old man. He collects little stuffed toys and gives one to each child that goes into his shop.
I'm thinking about moving back to Queensland soon, but I love this area so I think I'm trying to talk myself out of the move!
Edit. Yes Heather I forgot to mention Muslim, most of the cabbies here are Muslim. It's hard explaining my address sometimes when I get a new one because alot don't speak English but most don't even ask now (because I use cabs so often) They're always so polite.
My neighbours here are from New Zealand, South Africa and Australia.
We all get on famously. They are great fun.
In my house. my DH is from Wales and I'm True Blue.
We have a lot of Welshness here in our home.
Ummm.you girls are going to think I'm terrible but I don't think I've ever seen my neighbours in about five years. Well that's not entirely true, there was a lovely couple living next to us for many years on the corner but they moved to the country last year. The new corner neighbours I haven't even seen yet. The ones on the other corner across the street are blokes.only seen one from a distance and that's only because he plays pool in the back patio most nights which unfortunately is clearly visible from our garage, front door, bedroom. They moved in sometime last year - never met them. Directly across the road, also, wouldn't have a clue although they have about five cars which come and go on a daily basis. On the other side of me is a family with a few kids - I have talked to the kids a few times when they come to get their ball and that is it. I think they might have been the same neighbours that have been there all along but I can't say for sure
i live opposite the cemetery so my neighbours are dead The house beside us is empty. In town we have aboriginals, white aussies, kiwi's poms thats all that I know of
At least you have an excuse for not talking to them Tina
Most of the shops here are owned by different cultures and most take-aways are Chinese, Indian, etc and most butchers are Halal.
I love it here, I love all the different people. I love that my girls are getting the best education with different cultures. They learn alot from their many friends. Jalises best friend is a lovely little Indian girl and her parents are the nicest people I've met. Alot find it hard to speak english, my neighbour is from Korea but her and her husbands English are picking up very well and I'm happy to be playing a big part in that.
What is it like in your suburb/town? What are the people like?
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There is only a couple of Chinese, that i have seen, around here, everyone else seems to be Aussie/English, oh i think there are some Canadians up the road also.
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Spot the AUSSIE? Um, probably most of them are Australian, just not caucasian.
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where we live its more Aussie European, my DH his family came out to Aus from Germany 50 yrs ago went straight to a migrant camp just 15 mins from where we live the camp was full of German, Polish the likes, so there are still a lot here because the familys did'nt move away from the town where the camp once was, funny, until i met DH i just thought we were all Aussies lol
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When we moved here 26 years ago, all my immediate neighbours were white Australian (sounds terrible saying that).
I now have Chinese, Armenian and Lord only knows where they have come from I called in when they arrived a month or so ago, but the Lady doesn't speak English) but their religion is obviously Muslim plus 3 lots of White Australian.
I am currently working at a High School that has students from all over the world as part of the school is for IEC students (Intensive English).
My son and myself have friends from Indonesia, South Africa , Korea, England, Peru, Chile, USA and the Philippines.
I have friends who have adopted children from Colombia and Roumania.
I love a multicultural society.I just wish that everyone would realise that we have so much to learn from each other.
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Spot the AUSSIE? Um, probably most of them are Australian, just not caucasian.
Yeah well I guess some might be born in Australia, but not many. I know most of the parents at the school and almost all of them are migrants. Indians being the biggest percentage.
The uni is up the road and most students are from overseas learning English and other studies. The mayor migrated here from trouble in Africa in 1964 and has been here in this suburb since then, I just met him the other day while in his shop, he's a really nice old man. He collects little stuffed toys and gives one to each child that goes into his shop.
I'm thinking about moving back to Queensland soon, but I love this area so I think I'm trying to talk myself out of the move!
Edit. Yes Heather I forgot to mention Muslim, most of the cabbies here are Muslim. It's hard explaining my address sometimes when I get a new one because alot don't speak English but most don't even ask now (because I use cabs so often) They're always so polite.
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My neighbours here are from New Zealand, South Africa and Australia.
We all get on famously. They are great fun.
In my house. my DH is from Wales and I'm True Blue.
We have a lot of Welshness here in our home.
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Ummm.you girls are going to think I'm terrible but I don't think I've ever seen my neighbours in about five years. Well that's not entirely true, there was a lovely couple living next to us for many years on the corner but they moved to the country last year. The new corner neighbours I haven't even seen yet. The ones on the other corner across the street are blokes.only seen one from a distance and that's only because he plays pool in the back patio most nights which unfortunately is clearly visible from our garage, front door, bedroom. They moved in sometime last year - never met them. Directly across the road, also, wouldn't have a clue although they have about five cars which come and go on a daily basis. On the other side of me is a family with a few kids - I have talked to the kids a few times when they come to get their ball and that is it. I think they might have been the same neighbours that have been there all along but I can't say for sure
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i live opposite the cemetery so my neighbours are dead The house beside us is empty. In town we have aboriginals, white aussies, kiwi's poms thats all that I know of
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At least you have an excuse for not talking to them Tina