Fit In editorial comment

Fit In (editorial comment) ,00.html by Nadia December 16th, 2005

On SBS last night I kept hearing the young man of Middle Eastern origin hammering on about how these people feel alienated and just want to be accepted as Australians. Let me tell you that buttimilation and acceptance come from their homes, I am buttyrian by race, Lebanese by birth, Australian by choice.

I did not send my children off to Lebanon every summer school holidays. I took around their country Australia. I do not moan and whinge (within earshot of young children born here)that I cannot even find decent clothes-perfumes to buy in Australia(for wearing on evenings off from takeaways shops)I do not denigrade Australian values-way of lifecustomsmy children attend christian and non christian services, I am a christian, but have been inside a mosque, my son attended a Buddhist service. His moslem friend came to our church.

I feel like a leper at Lebanese gatherings because I don't "go down" to Lebanon every year. What for! I escaped it with my life and whatever I could carry. I will not bring a partner from Lebanon for my children, they can chose their partners when they find the right person regardless of colour-race. The same applies to Jordanians-Egyptians-Palestinians-Syrians.

Australia is a hospitable, beautiful country it opened its arms to us when we were running for our lives. I have never encountered any racism maybe it is because I have never dished up any. Lot of thugs were let into the country a decade or so ago without proper checks, and these thugs have taken advantage of our democratic way of life and spread their venom (thuggery-drug trafficing etc) specially in Sydney.

I have been intimiated by a group Middle Eastern man at a suburban swimming pool, swimming too close around me, making rude remarks, lucky for me I speak the language and I told them off. their women were not at the pool. "I told them that they wouldn't want my husband to do this to their wormen. Just because I was alone and in swimming gear they buttume I am fair game. We need to develop an buttessment system whereby potential migrants are told of our way of life, our language and our Christian heritage.

Women are equal partners in life and must be respected no matter what they are or are not wearing. Australia is a great country and most of us chose, and worked hard to get here, and if some of us don't like what they see, they are free to go back and discover the reality of where they came from. Parents need to stop romanticising and glamorising countries they willingly left. Stop living in the past, look forward to the future, teach your children life skills for Australia, not where we were born. That life has gone, it is finished. We no longer belong there.

Teach your children to belong here, find life partners here, invest here, by all means go for holidays every now and again to the old countries, but don't turn it into a pilgrimage. If my life was that good there, I wouldn've travelled all the way here. Enough. There is and has always been more racism from these communities towards the Australian way of life, political corretness has not helped either, it has made matters worse.

We must celebrate Christmas-Easter-ANZAc Day-Australia Day-fly the flag (because we are happy to be here, proud to be Australians) These days should be proper holidays (no shopping centres open) people can survive for 24 hours with the shops shut, no one will starve if the shops were closed for special days during the year. afterall that is what a public holiday is, a special day to mark a special occbuttion, to reflect on that occbuttion, rest,worship, catch up with family and friends.

So to all " we are hard done by " people I ask you: " What have you done to accept Australia as your home-country? What have you told your children about where they belong, where they need to study and work hard and build a life? about where and what nationality their life partners need be? How much do you participate in the wider community activities ie: Australia Day-ANZAC Day?. Take ownership of your failings. Look at yourselves. Do you respect others? Do you have boundaries? Do your children have boundaries? It takes two to tango. You want to be accepted, learn to accept others as they are and don't force your way of life and views on the rest.

As much as I hate to agree with a member of the Liberal Party, the Treasurer words about people leaving if they didn't like here are so true. You are free to leave if you don't like it. Go and find your Utopia somewhere else, never to be allowed back. This is our land-home and that is how we like it.

ed. Could easily apply to any nation in the western world, this lady is certainly welcome in mine as far as i'm concerned...

-- Jim Union Against Multiculty

"Abolish Multiculty and String Up The Traitors!"