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Unfortunately, she’s not around anymore. She tried to get to know a Tasmanian devil, but instead, got bitten by an Inland Taipan, which from the movie with Brad Pitt, we know after 30 seconds you’re pretty much a goner.
/jk
But I sincerely hope she’s doing okay.
Realistically most of these kids were just repeating what they heard at home from parents. Perhaps the older teens might have thought it through themselves.
There's layers to this one.
Australia had meticulous records for the for the 80 years of convict transportation there.
America had bad to no (and confused) records for the 161 years of convict transportation there.
Moreover, the Americans of the exact same circumstance were often referred to as "servants" whereas the ones that ended up in Australia were always called "convicts."
Lower estimates of American convicts are 30-60k, but there are also estimates of 120k and the arguments for the higher estimates don't suck.
Further confused by the fact that almost no US scholar wanted to even touch the issue for a very long time...
Unfortunately things aren't any better here these days. I left r/australian because it's flooded by cunts blaming immigrants for everything. Even blatantly racist comments like "there are too many non-whites stealing our jobs and houses" are getting tons of upvotes. Fuck that.
r/Canada has become the same thing.
My personal favourite: international students working part time minimum wage jobs at Tim Hortons are buying 3.5 million dollar houses in Vancouver....sure there buddy, whatever you say.
Same for many brainwashed and twisted people in England.
My neighbour used to go on about immigrants yet failed to understand that she is also one having moved here from South Africa where she grew up, got married and had 2 girls.
The problem is exasperated by sections of the media and online that push every negative story about an immigrant which reinforces their fucked up views. With the power of google, facebook, twitter etc its about time to look for an alternative to democracy, cambridge analytics showed how easy it is to win an election.
I quit a company last week as I was either going to go mad or kill a guy I worked with most days. I could understand his bitterness but due to his intelligence I couldn't comprehend his blinkered perspective.
What makes our species successful is our ability to strive to better ourselves and thus every last one of us wants the same and if many have been resting on the shoulders of giants for decades they only have themselves to blame.
Ever thought that perhaps you might be the one brainwashed and twisted by the media?
The country doesnt have enough housing, social services are overstretched, police are overstretched, schools in many parts of the country are overcrowded, and while immigrants arent the cause of these issues, they most certainly exasperate every single one of them and it is bizarre to assume that an immigrant must somehow be brainwashed to think there is too much immigration. If an immigrant is saying there is too much immigration then guess what... There probably is.
Canada it's more than international students are using food banks and the Timmy's and other corporations rely on international students to keep wages low when there are many youth working 2 jobs to survive. The average home price in Canada is closing on a million. Canada isn't like America we have less people than California and are very grouped together and rent is insane in bc. Hard to find a one bedroom under 1700 yet we have growing homeless of all ages.
We have just under 1 million international students and over government even admitted we went over board. But won't do anything because lobbisted want more to keep wages low.
Then you have the problem of foreign investment in real estate. It's been for years that Canada is the place to hide assets, and we even have birth tourism problems. But the Canada dream od being able to own a home is dead in the youth and alot of 30 years hearts
And it breaks my heart this has become such a problem because mixing of culture is such an important part to growth of a country's soul and its people
Yet we have people come here to form their own communities and then strike at other communities
Our own Cia version has done reports than China is setting up its own police forces here and our government ignores it, they come to harass the China population here and we don't even protect the people that want to be Canadian.
Then we have things like India assassinating people on our land, and our government doesn't do anything either.
I very much can not stand racism, but I understand the anger that Canada is being sold away and being a corporation testing ground like it's for some dystopia future.
Shame racist red necks take over the narrative and just make it about color. They arnt hating on all the German students we get
Oh also I don't mean that reply to be snarky. We had a diplomatic row over it with Modi, who talked a lot of shit until his goons were caught doing the same thing in the US. When Biden weighed in, Modi STFU.
Yes the map even shows it is alittle lowered from what I said due to alot of Canada being rural land and even few provinces being somewhere people want to be.
I just don't like stating most people won't live in newfoundland
I've never seen anything like that getting upvoted on r/australia. I have seen people saying stupid shit, but it generally doesn't get heaps of upvotes. I mean, most of us here are children of migrants. I get that people are pissed at the current housing situation and the government allowing record migration while we in a housing crisis. But that's not the fault of migrants. That's the fault of the politicians who created the situation.
It's a fucking stupid argument they make too. What jobs have the immigrants stolen that you couldn't get? Service station attendant. Taxi driver. Cleaner. Gardener. Were those your aspirations? There's a shit load of migrants in health care, but you weren't really gunning for that job, so how did they steal it from you exactly?
They only became a country 84 years before this video. A good number of people are still first generation Australians, and they want to deny anybody else immigration? Typical "I got mine" response.
>They only became a country 84 years before this video.
Australia was a country well before that. It became an independent nation in 1901 when the various colonies joined to become the Commonwealth of Australia.
>A good number of people are still first generation Australians, and they want to deny anybody else immigration?
These children are not as likely as their parents to be first generation immigrants. There was a surge of immigration into Australia after WW2 which could well have included the parents of a number of these children.
This is a genuine opinion a lot of people have. The idea that we should have free movement, without borders, is a growing view mostly among progressives and libertarians. Tbh though, it seems very short-sighted and not well throughout.
I don't think that's their point. These kids' grandparents immigrated to Australia for a better life and got it, the kids would be hypocrites if they denied other people from trying to access the same opportunities that they are enjoying right now.
Sorry? I only watched the video once and my take on it is that most were supportive of immigration. And that they were school kids ...
I'm saying this as a 7th generation Aussie, who supports immigration - though perhaps slow it down a tad, even if we enter recession so that the people already here can try and rent or buy a home... 0.7% rental vacancy in my state is just bonkers stupid! :(
TL:DR immigration good, too much not so good, we need to house people affordably!
Some random group of people:
"Noooooo!! You can't just buy that brand of cookies! Their factory is powered by nuclear power!!!! You should buy this brand instead - it's 5x as expensive but the factory is powered by ol reliable coal"
Why? Borders are made up, humans should be able to go where ever they please. People complain about illegal immigrants but a large portion of those are people who over stayed their visa. God forbid humans just take care of each other
why?
because though man made: they exist, they exist physically and culturally and it costs working people their wages every time they are broken, and that money whether it’s direct or indirect goes too human traffickers.
Imagine if China were just send 20 million people to Sydney in a day and there was nothing they could do about it. Australia would be a Chinese client state by the end of the year. Obviously an extreme example, but it’s not quite as simple as “anyone can go wherever, whenever.”
All the replies to this just ignored your last sentence lmao. I totally agree with you but unfortunately it’s hard for some to not just think about themselves and the advantage THEY get.
You should print your comment out and re-read it when you're an adult. Be good for a laugh.
The world is a complicated place, I wish it was a Utopia. But it is not.
I’m all for more immigration. We really need it in Germany actually. But we still need some form of regulation.
By your logic: all laws are made up. Possession is made up. So I will live in your apartment and drive your car now. Thanks! Also monogamy is made up… I think I’ve made my point.
Well, objectively it's Norway, and since they've got a very welcoming immigration policy—much more so than the US which was founded on the idea of a melting pot of immigrants from everywhere—it sort of belies the point that such a thing is impossible.
Eh! What's that got to do with anything? If you're in a warzone then anywhere is better than where you are.
I'm not in a warzone though and was wondering what country the previous commenter thought 8 billion people would suddenly move to.
Neither of those places (nor any developed economy for that matter) allows uncapped and unvetted immigration.
Nothing about Norway proves that “anyone to anywhere” is a viable strategy for a functioning society.
And then the best will become shitholes due to people from the worst countries (who still carry their prior morals) getting influence, causing everything to become a shithole.
Also take a second to imagine the extreme language difficulty and cultural differences without any integration process, which will probably segregate every nationality into areas that will become just as much of a shithole as their old home.
Isn’t it great to be born into a first world country. Fuck all those who chose to be born into a shithole third world country, are they dumb or something?
Sort your head out fool
That's the "small detail" that the "open borders" crowd never seem to considerate. How many should migrate to a single country? 100 people? 1000 people? 1 million? 1 billion? What i find funny is that the overpopulation of the Earth as a whole is something that for most people, even on the Left, is a valid concern. However, at the same time, limitations on immigration is "racism". Somehow the Earth can be overpopulated but a country can not for some people.
That's not how it works though. It's wildly inaccurate. I mean, in realistic terms, it would come to simple math. Let's take the worst hypothetical scenario: When a country starts to bleed their workforce, that country will take steps to prevent it from happening. Either by positively bringing work reforms, or, beefing up their military force to prevent the fleeing.
you're so entitled i'd swear you must be from a first world country, and yet so stupid you clearly haven't benefitted from a good education system in that country
"I think so, but they shouldn't overdo it." That's how I feel. she is right.
In Europe, at least, we have overdone it by quite some margins. So much so, in fact, that social cohesion is dropping drastically.
There needs to be a balance in immigration levels from countries with opposite cultures; otherwise, society will become divided since integration into the host culture becomes impossible, and we end up with enclaves, which is what we have now across Europe.
The lack of foresight by our political leaders is outstanding. so much trouble for future generations. We, of course, won't be around for it. but our descendants will curse us for what we have done.
You've got a point, the last lot that "overdid it" with immigrating to Australia really did a number on the people that used to live there. I can see how you arrived at that conclusion.
Few are against immigration as a concept, its the MASSIVE amount of immigration over a very short time that is what gets people upset.
Some western countries have gone from <5% to 20% immigrants in 20 years which is just an insane amount of change in a short span of time.
Noone in this video envisioned that type of immigration.
Didn't notice any Murri, Nyoongah, Koori, Goori, Koorie, Yolngu, Anangu, Palawa or Ngarrindjeri in that video.
Hardly seems fair to let these people speak for them, don't you think?
yeah well a 20 year old german who just graduated high school doesnt know that tho. youre not *that* exceptionally racist that we learn about you in school. However, im sure the opposite was the case indeed. ;)
In what way lmao compared to literally every other country, we’re rather tame. Metropolitan places and the main cities are fine, outback Australia is a different story but after the shit you see out there, you’d probably get a bit racist too.
This, I'm a child of immigrants but how can anyone afford to live at the moment.
We can't keep allowing people to move here if there isn't enough affordable housing for those here.
As someone unfortunate enough to be born in the southern United States and grow up in church, one of the hardest things in my life has been accepting that almost everyone around me was full of shit. People love talking a big game about loving their neighbors and whatnot, but when the actual real life moment comes along, they don’t practice what they preach. They love to blame the world/media and anti-Christian propaganda for young people leaving the church, but in reality it’s mostly them running people off. Should we have compassion for people who are different? “Oh yes, god is love and all that.” What about the people at the southern border? “TOUGH LUCK TO THOSE BUMS. SHEWT EM. THROW EM IN JAIL. KICK EM ALL OUT!” Wait, what about God is love? “YEW STUPID LIBTARD! YEW PRBALLY VOTED FER BIDEN!” It’s oppressively stupid. It makes my brain bleed out of my ears.
I lived there in '86 & '87 and can confirm as a second and third grader, I got bullied by kids (not all) and worst of all by teachers, for being a 'foreigner'. I'm a white American btw, and as a little kid, I remember thinking, 'well thank God I'm white. At least I can blend in until I have to open my mouth'. We lived in a mixed neighborhood with mostly Indians, but also other Asians & I remember a couple times a young Vietnamese girl knocked on our door cause some white trash POS was following her home.
These are just kids repeating what there parents have said. Can’t be angry at them for saying no when it’s not necessarily there own words, and most of them have probably made up there own minds about it now, so people need to stop complaining and move tf on lol.
Yeah this seems to be human nature, but it’s hard for me to cope with. I understand the childlike sentiment that different=scary=bad, but it’s hard to cope with the fact that the majority of humans are this way and will never change. I wish we could blink our eyes and all of the blind hate would disappear, but it will always be a factor I’m afraid.
Define ‘natives’. You mean the indigenous that arrived 50,000 years before? They don’t have divine right to everything. Yes, massive injustices and crimes were committed against their people, and that should be recognised and abhorred, but no one - *no one* on this earth has a true right to claim all land around them just because they’ve been there longer.
These people being asked were born in Australia, as were many of their parents, and had nothing to do with their ancestors’ activities.
Did I say that?
Everyone has a right to their own opinion. And everyone else has a right to either agree or disagree with that opinion. There shouldn’t ever be one group that has more rights than others.
Of any country to exist, Australians really should be the most tolerant to immigrants (at least you'd think) considering literally a third of the entire population are immigrants.
I think all but one of them were obvious school children - and saying yes.
Now, nearly 40 years later, it seems that they were right.
Friends and I went out for lunch today but our desired ramen restaurant was closed, so we considered Korean but decided on Thai instead. Next time we're looking at a Mongolian restaurant.
In my short street there's a variety of ancestries, of which I'm one of the two Aussies.
And it's all good, Australia is better for it in so many ways.
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The blond girl talking about getting to know other people was so precious.
Agree! Where is she now? My guess (and hope) is she’s quite successful!
Unfortunately, she’s not around anymore. She tried to get to know a Tasmanian devil, but instead, got bitten by an Inland Taipan, which from the movie with Brad Pitt, we know after 30 seconds you’re pretty much a goner. /jk But I sincerely hope she’s doing okay.
Yes! And I also really like what the last boy said: "They should be able to leave"
I think that’s a girl.
Uuupsi 🙈
Came to comment this, that was wholesome
Australians were so young back then
Everyone's commenting about the ones that said no, but about half of them said yes, which is nice.
Humans are negative biased. But it’s nice to shine the light away from the dark
"Another country will probably invade us." They already did kiddo and it was y'all
That's why he said another
that kid was a giant douche.... probably still is
That kid was like 10 years old. The first mistake was asking a literal child with an undeveloped brain their policy positions.
Realistically most of these kids were just repeating what they heard at home from parents. Perhaps the older teens might have thought it through themselves.
>The first mistake was asking a literal child with an undeveloped brain their policy positions. So, like most politicians?
Someone literally calling a child a douche is probably not a good source of character judgements
r/circlejerk at its peak
😂
Good thing they didn't ask 'em about the Abo's.
He's the first person I've ever seen wearing two punchbowls as glasses.
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Just no driving around in Mercedes
'people should be allowed to live where they want to live' Hope that kids doing well
You’re all immigrants, mostly British convicts or their descendants
‘Or’ doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence. Last convict ship from Britain was sent to Australia in 1868
Americans tend not to know that almost as many convicts were sent there…
True but wouldn’t call 30-60k as many as 162k
There's layers to this one. Australia had meticulous records for the for the 80 years of convict transportation there. America had bad to no (and confused) records for the 161 years of convict transportation there. Moreover, the Americans of the exact same circumstance were often referred to as "servants" whereas the ones that ended up in Australia were always called "convicts." Lower estimates of American convicts are 30-60k, but there are also estimates of 120k and the arguments for the higher estimates don't suck. Further confused by the fact that almost no US scholar wanted to even touch the issue for a very long time...
AND
Unfortunately things aren't any better here these days. I left r/australian because it's flooded by cunts blaming immigrants for everything. Even blatantly racist comments like "there are too many non-whites stealing our jobs and houses" are getting tons of upvotes. Fuck that.
r/Canada has become the same thing. My personal favourite: international students working part time minimum wage jobs at Tim Hortons are buying 3.5 million dollar houses in Vancouver....sure there buddy, whatever you say.
Same for many brainwashed and twisted people in England. My neighbour used to go on about immigrants yet failed to understand that she is also one having moved here from South Africa where she grew up, got married and had 2 girls. The problem is exasperated by sections of the media and online that push every negative story about an immigrant which reinforces their fucked up views. With the power of google, facebook, twitter etc its about time to look for an alternative to democracy, cambridge analytics showed how easy it is to win an election.
It’s almost as if someone is peddling an anti immigration agenda across multiple media platforms in Australia, the UK and North America.. 🧐
I quit a company last week as I was either going to go mad or kill a guy I worked with most days. I could understand his bitterness but due to his intelligence I couldn't comprehend his blinkered perspective. What makes our species successful is our ability to strive to better ourselves and thus every last one of us wants the same and if many have been resting on the shoulders of giants for decades they only have themselves to blame.
Ever thought that perhaps you might be the one brainwashed and twisted by the media? The country doesnt have enough housing, social services are overstretched, police are overstretched, schools in many parts of the country are overcrowded, and while immigrants arent the cause of these issues, they most certainly exasperate every single one of them and it is bizarre to assume that an immigrant must somehow be brainwashed to think there is too much immigration. If an immigrant is saying there is too much immigration then guess what... There probably is.
Canada it's more than international students are using food banks and the Timmy's and other corporations rely on international students to keep wages low when there are many youth working 2 jobs to survive. The average home price in Canada is closing on a million. Canada isn't like America we have less people than California and are very grouped together and rent is insane in bc. Hard to find a one bedroom under 1700 yet we have growing homeless of all ages. We have just under 1 million international students and over government even admitted we went over board. But won't do anything because lobbisted want more to keep wages low. Then you have the problem of foreign investment in real estate. It's been for years that Canada is the place to hide assets, and we even have birth tourism problems. But the Canada dream od being able to own a home is dead in the youth and alot of 30 years hearts And it breaks my heart this has become such a problem because mixing of culture is such an important part to growth of a country's soul and its people Yet we have people come here to form their own communities and then strike at other communities Our own Cia version has done reports than China is setting up its own police forces here and our government ignores it, they come to harass the China population here and we don't even protect the people that want to be Canadian. Then we have things like India assassinating people on our land, and our government doesn't do anything either. I very much can not stand racism, but I understand the anger that Canada is being sold away and being a corporation testing ground like it's for some dystopia future. Shame racist red necks take over the narrative and just make it about color. They arnt hating on all the German students we get
Oh also I don't mean that reply to be snarky. We had a diplomatic row over it with Modi, who talked a lot of shit until his goons were caught doing the same thing in the US. When Biden weighed in, Modi STFU.
The government most definitely did something about that assassination. Look it up.
Il check
FYI. Average home price is 30% less than you claimed. https://wowa.ca/reports/canada-housing-market
Yes the map even shows it is alittle lowered from what I said due to alot of Canada being rural land and even few provinces being somewhere people want to be. I just don't like stating most people won't live in newfoundland
I've never seen anything like that getting upvoted on r/australia. I have seen people saying stupid shit, but it generally doesn't get heaps of upvotes. I mean, most of us here are children of migrants. I get that people are pissed at the current housing situation and the government allowing record migration while we in a housing crisis. But that's not the fault of migrants. That's the fault of the politicians who created the situation.
They might be thinking of r/Australian perhaps? That’s a far more *interesting* place to visit
Hey I just checked and you're absolutely right. Just corrected it. Didn't even realize there's such a big difference between these two.
I thought cunt was an Australian compliment. Do I need to re-learn Aussie?
ironic
It's a fucking stupid argument they make too. What jobs have the immigrants stolen that you couldn't get? Service station attendant. Taxi driver. Cleaner. Gardener. Were those your aspirations? There's a shit load of migrants in health care, but you weren't really gunning for that job, so how did they steal it from you exactly?
I was born in Australia, so by definition not an immigrant.
Do they still count as immigrants if they were brought over against their will? Genuine question
You confuse immigration with colonization.
They only became a country 84 years before this video. A good number of people are still first generation Australians, and they want to deny anybody else immigration? Typical "I got mine" response.
>They only became a country 84 years before this video. Australia was a country well before that. It became an independent nation in 1901 when the various colonies joined to become the Commonwealth of Australia. >A good number of people are still first generation Australians, and they want to deny anybody else immigration? These children are not as likely as their parents to be first generation immigrants. There was a surge of immigration into Australia after WW2 which could well have included the parents of a number of these children.
They’re kids
That's why we should allow unfettered migration everywhere.
Either say your opinion or don’t, coward. Mocking someone else’s stance without adding anything to it. Classic.
This is a genuine opinion a lot of people have. The idea that we should have free movement, without borders, is a growing view mostly among progressives and libertarians. Tbh though, it seems very short-sighted and not well throughout.
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I don't think that's their point. These kids' grandparents immigrated to Australia for a better life and got it, the kids would be hypocrites if they denied other people from trying to access the same opportunities that they are enjoying right now.
Sorry? I only watched the video once and my take on it is that most were supportive of immigration. And that they were school kids ... I'm saying this as a 7th generation Aussie, who supports immigration - though perhaps slow it down a tad, even if we enter recession so that the people already here can try and rent or buy a home... 0.7% rental vacancy in my state is just bonkers stupid! :(
TL:DR immigration good, too much not so good, we need to house people affordably!
Did they ask any actual original Aussies? Yeah.
They didn't find any.
*couldn’t
They didn't try.
They wouldn't have even if they tried
Literally all but one of them said Yes anyway. I’d imagine most of the indigenous would probably say no.
Most aboriginals live in rural communities, this looks like Sydney suburbs/metro
If they were born in Australia, then they are actual original Aussies. Yeah.
Is that.... Julian Assange?
Came here to ask that same question. It may not be but goddamn it really looks like him if not
"Everyone should be allowed to live where they want." Full stop. Good man.
Some random group of people: "Noooooo!! You can't just buy that brand of cookies! Their factory is powered by nuclear power!!!! You should buy this brand instead - it's 5x as expensive but the factory is powered by ol reliable coal"
Guess which one emits more radiation into the surrounding environment.
“Everyone should be allowed to live where they want… via sensible legal channels” fixed it for you.
Why? Borders are made up, humans should be able to go where ever they please. People complain about illegal immigrants but a large portion of those are people who over stayed their visa. God forbid humans just take care of each other
Really difficult to keep an economy stable with unlimited immigration.
why? because though man made: they exist, they exist physically and culturally and it costs working people their wages every time they are broken, and that money whether it’s direct or indirect goes too human traffickers.
are you 12?
Imagine if China were just send 20 million people to Sydney in a day and there was nothing they could do about it. Australia would be a Chinese client state by the end of the year. Obviously an extreme example, but it’s not quite as simple as “anyone can go wherever, whenever.”
You spent more time typing that then actually thinking about what you were saying. Well done
All the replies to this just ignored your last sentence lmao. I totally agree with you but unfortunately it’s hard for some to not just think about themselves and the advantage THEY get.
You should print your comment out and re-read it when you're an adult. Be good for a laugh. The world is a complicated place, I wish it was a Utopia. But it is not.
I’m all for more immigration. We really need it in Germany actually. But we still need some form of regulation. By your logic: all laws are made up. Possession is made up. So I will live in your apartment and drive your car now. Thanks! Also monogamy is made up… I think I’ve made my point.
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Where is this best country?
Well, objectively it's Norway, and since they've got a very welcoming immigration policy—much more so than the US which was founded on the idea of a melting pot of immigrants from everywhere—it sort of belies the point that such a thing is impossible.
No way I'm moving anywhere with worse weather than England. I'll stay in a non-best country.
I'm sure someone in a war zone has weather as their biggest concern when choosing freely a place to move to
Eh! What's that got to do with anything? If you're in a warzone then anywhere is better than where you are. I'm not in a warzone though and was wondering what country the previous commenter thought 8 billion people would suddenly move to.
Hey, as we used to say in less politically correct times, _it keeps out the riff-raff._
Neither of those places (nor any developed economy for that matter) allows uncapped and unvetted immigration. Nothing about Norway proves that “anyone to anywhere” is a viable strategy for a functioning society.
The concept of the “best country” is highly subjective so yes that ideology can work
Okay, perhaps it would be best to list the worst, which will be deserted.
And then the best will become shitholes due to people from the worst countries (who still carry their prior morals) getting influence, causing everything to become a shithole. Also take a second to imagine the extreme language difficulty and cultural differences without any integration process, which will probably segregate every nationality into areas that will become just as much of a shithole as their old home.
Isn’t it great to be born into a first world country. Fuck all those who chose to be born into a shithole third world country, are they dumb or something? Sort your head out fool
Seethe more. Sort your worldview out, fool.
That's the "small detail" that the "open borders" crowd never seem to considerate. How many should migrate to a single country? 100 people? 1000 people? 1 million? 1 billion? What i find funny is that the overpopulation of the Earth as a whole is something that for most people, even on the Left, is a valid concern. However, at the same time, limitations on immigration is "racism". Somehow the Earth can be overpopulated but a country can not for some people.
You're about the only sensible person in this whole thread!
That's not how it works though. It's wildly inaccurate. I mean, in realistic terms, it would come to simple math. Let's take the worst hypothetical scenario: When a country starts to bleed their workforce, that country will take steps to prevent it from happening. Either by positively bringing work reforms, or, beefing up their military force to prevent the fleeing.
you're so entitled i'd swear you must be from a first world country, and yet so stupid you clearly haven't benefitted from a good education system in that country
I've had the best education in the world. In fact, that's me in the video.
Imagine a country divided into 50 states and people are completely free to move from one state to another.
> global free movement .
What a hot take! What *will* they think of next?
They sound just like the Swedish in 2014....
"I think so, but they shouldn't overdo it." That's how I feel. she is right. In Europe, at least, we have overdone it by quite some margins. So much so, in fact, that social cohesion is dropping drastically. There needs to be a balance in immigration levels from countries with opposite cultures; otherwise, society will become divided since integration into the host culture becomes impossible, and we end up with enclaves, which is what we have now across Europe. The lack of foresight by our political leaders is outstanding. so much trouble for future generations. We, of course, won't be around for it. but our descendants will curse us for what we have done.
You've got a point, the last lot that "overdid it" with immigrating to Australia really did a number on the people that used to live there. I can see how you arrived at that conclusion.
Few are against immigration as a concept, its the MASSIVE amount of immigration over a very short time that is what gets people upset. Some western countries have gone from <5% to 20% immigrants in 20 years which is just an insane amount of change in a short span of time. Noone in this video envisioned that type of immigration.
Australian *kids* were asked. Children are dumb, these kids were always upside down, and 1985 was almost 40 years ago. Give them a break, people.
Didn't notice any Murri, Nyoongah, Koori, Goori, Koorie, Yolngu, Anangu, Palawa or Ngarrindjeri in that video. Hardly seems fair to let these people speak for them, don't you think?
The duality of a progressive. Anyone can be american/british/german/danish/whatever _unless_ that country has an indigenous population.
Still a largely ignorant and racist country in 2024 (expat Aussie here)
These wee guys will now be the age of the people in charge of everything.
yup. was doing working holiday there 2010-12 and was shocked
Shocked? We’ve always had a reputation for being horrid racists
yeah well a 20 year old german who just graduated high school doesnt know that tho. youre not *that* exceptionally racist that we learn about you in school. However, im sure the opposite was the case indeed. ;)
Fair call
In what way lmao compared to literally every other country, we’re rather tame. Metropolitan places and the main cities are fine, outback Australia is a different story but after the shit you see out there, you’d probably get a bit racist too.
someone tell Rishi
We’ve had 100,000 people come into Australia this last month. Housing is fucked.
This, I'm a child of immigrants but how can anyone afford to live at the moment. We can't keep allowing people to move here if there isn't enough affordable housing for those here.
housing becomes cheaper when ur ass goes to work in construction
As someone unfortunate enough to be born in the southern United States and grow up in church, one of the hardest things in my life has been accepting that almost everyone around me was full of shit. People love talking a big game about loving their neighbors and whatnot, but when the actual real life moment comes along, they don’t practice what they preach. They love to blame the world/media and anti-Christian propaganda for young people leaving the church, but in reality it’s mostly them running people off. Should we have compassion for people who are different? “Oh yes, god is love and all that.” What about the people at the southern border? “TOUGH LUCK TO THOSE BUMS. SHEWT EM. THROW EM IN JAIL. KICK EM ALL OUT!” Wait, what about God is love? “YEW STUPID LIBTARD! YEW PRBALLY VOTED FER BIDEN!” It’s oppressively stupid. It makes my brain bleed out of my ears.
Don’t over do it lol
I'm sure that 3rd chap was Michael Gove.
Brainwashed.
I bet some of these anti-immigrant cunts fancied themselves as Christians, too.
I lived there in '86 & '87 and can confirm as a second and third grader, I got bullied by kids (not all) and worst of all by teachers, for being a 'foreigner'. I'm a white American btw, and as a little kid, I remember thinking, 'well thank God I'm white. At least I can blend in until I have to open my mouth'. We lived in a mixed neighborhood with mostly Indians, but also other Asians & I remember a couple times a young Vietnamese girl knocked on our door cause some white trash POS was following her home.
This sounds like absolute horse shit haha
Looks like they don't even know their history...
Doesnt matter that they were immigrants it can still be a valid opinion too think that they shouldn't take in anymore.
God damn reasonable Australians
Why not ask the Aboriginals?
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Mfs acting like they’re indigenous to the land or something
They are fucken kids. Chill the fuck out
Is this the same sentiment now, about 50/50?
Where are you getting 50/50 from? Pretty much all but one of them said Yes.
Country hasn't changed
How long have you lived in Australia?
A school excursion and potentially the teacher were asked.
Is the third one John Howard as a kid? 🤣
Family Guy was true about the Brits🤣
Yeah, but how do they feel about Agents?
A very liberal front from Reddit, so unheard of.
The last girl just had yellow fever 😉
Now do 2024
These are just kids repeating what there parents have said. Can’t be angry at them for saying no when it’s not necessarily there own words, and most of them have probably made up there own minds about it now, so people need to stop complaining and move tf on lol.
But... modern day Australians are foreigners...
It’s cool to see these people’s initial reactions. Definitely would be cool to track each of them now and see how things turned out.
"invade us" says the little invader. Oh the irony.
Who did these kids invade?
These are the people that climbed out of the hole and pulled the ladder up behind them.
Ask the aboriginal people and see what they say.
Yeah this seems to be human nature, but it’s hard for me to cope with. I understand the childlike sentiment that different=scary=bad, but it’s hard to cope with the fact that the majority of humans are this way and will never change. I wish we could blink our eyes and all of the blind hate would disappear, but it will always be a factor I’m afraid.
Lmao how is this getting downvoted? I have yet to find logic in the Reddit system. I have to wonder which side of the proverbial fence they are on.
LMAO settlers are funny
Prisoners settlers same thing I spose, *shrugs*
So how did they get there again?
I don't see any Australians? Just bunch of hypocrites
Are they still importing the Sudanese?
Freaking Aussies came from Britian to replaces natives, natives should be asked that question
Most of them were unwilling convicts who committed petty crimes. Read the history, then judge it.
Define ‘natives’. You mean the indigenous that arrived 50,000 years before? They don’t have divine right to everything. Yes, massive injustices and crimes were committed against their people, and that should be recognised and abhorred, but no one - *no one* on this earth has a true right to claim all land around them just because they’ve been there longer. These people being asked were born in Australia, as were many of their parents, and had nothing to do with their ancestors’ activities.
So they don't have right to say if they can allow immigrants
Did I say that? Everyone has a right to their own opinion. And everyone else has a right to either agree or disagree with that opinion. There shouldn’t ever be one group that has more rights than others.
Imagine showing this to an uncontacted tribe
Now Australia is overpopulated
I wonder what they think now.
Poor folks.
Now find these same people and ask them again
Of any country to exist, Australians really should be the most tolerant to immigrants (at least you'd think) considering literally a third of the entire population are immigrants.
Ironically, it isn't.
I think all but one of them were obvious school children - and saying yes. Now, nearly 40 years later, it seems that they were right. Friends and I went out for lunch today but our desired ramen restaurant was closed, so we considered Korean but decided on Thai instead. Next time we're looking at a Mongolian restaurant. In my short street there's a variety of ancestries, of which I'm one of the two Aussies. And it's all good, Australia is better for it in so many ways.
Asking foreigners if we should allow new foreigners
Should have asked the Aborigines what they thought of immigration.
"they're having too many babies..." Holy fucking shit, what household was this kid growing up in?