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"The children of British migrants to Australia or New Zeland always strongly identify to their countries of birth and do not cling on to some sense of Englishness or Britishness. Why do the offspring of Greek migrants find it so hard to let go?"

I agree that children of Cypriot immigrants are abit more warped in their nationalism. I was born in Cyprus in Kyrenia. But the idea that Kids of pom immigrants in the Antipodean colonies do not cling to their Britishness is wrong. Aussies and Kiwi Sheep shaggers both are more British than Brits living in Pommieland today especially Londoners. How many true blue Anglos are living in London today. Your average Londoner is from somewhere else in the world. Its an overlapping world with no Cultural vacuums where a genuinely separate Aussie or Kiwi culture has developed.Kids of Poms don't stop using the language of their parents and take up Maori or Aboriginal languages do they . Do they join native tribes more than Greek kids do? In Australia we get all the best and worst of British Culture and traditions from Westminster Democracy to ABC TV which loves to broadcast non stop BBC programming like THE BILL, Dr Who and comedy only Brits and their Kids they seem to get. I have watched more British TV and absorbed more British culture here than "Aussie" culture.I can't speak Aboriginal either. At school we only studied English Authors. Modern Aussie literature was only taught to kids studying retard English. Kids of Brits walk around in Pom soccer gear and if you listen to them carefully they have a very different accent to kids of say 6th generation convict Aussies. When I use pom I use it as a term of endearment - apart from food like toad in the bloomin' hole and some bad comedy I like the Brits overall.