GreekIslandGirl wrote:Has anyone watched
"Dead Europe" ?
Yuck! I stopped a third of the way in.
It's the Australian-made film based on the supernatural book by Christos Tsiolkas. Young gay guy takes his Commie father's ashes back to Greece where he finds out the family were cursed ...
It's just bad.
If anyone has watched it all the way through, let me know if it's worth resuming; but it has put me off the Australian mindset completely!
That's another Greek made film that is utterly woeful.
Speaking of communists, many did migrate to Australia in the 50s. There are hundreds of declassified files from ASIO which is an intelligence agency responsible for surveillance on citizens and people living in Australia, military and public politicians, even Ministers, and consular officials or anyone else that comes under suspicion of Communism. Australia was always edgy about Communism during the Cold War. At the time, even kids were taught at school how to hide underneath their desk in case of nuclear attack. Hundreds of Greek Families, usually from Northern Greece who migrated to Australia were under surveillance. Many Cypriots that migrated to Australia and were found out to be connected to AKEL were under surveillance. Communism just was not tolerated.
As to the mindset. Well, the worst people in Australia generally seem to be Greeks and Cypriots. They are just shit people. They probably were not bad in Greece or Cyprus, or when they first arrived in Australia and worked hard as working class battlers trying to make a living. Now, the money has got to their heads. Australia is so wealthy now, every fool has made money. Own 2 pieces of land and you're a millionaire on paper. It's now a competition between many dollar driven Greek and Cypriot peasant (yes that is what they are - illiterate low class peasants) who couldn't rub 2 bob together 20 or more years ago, who has the bigger house or mansion and who drives the best car. It's improving slightly now that the older peasants are dieing out.
Australians on the other hand are probably wealthier on average but they are well grounded and heeled. You can talk to them easily. A lot less pretentious. They would usually have a 4wd and some a boat to go fishing on the weekends. They got money but they live a lifestyle too whereas the Greeks and Cypriot eat their own shit! Australians eat better because they are willing to spend on their dietary needs in order to get fresh food which comes at a price. Australia has become just so cosmopolitan. Streets are full, restaurants and bars packed. You wouldn't find any Greek and Cypriot peasants there. They are too busy staying home eating their own shit so they can afford to extend their mansion or buy a luxury German car to win some bragging rights. Maybe you will find their kids out and about.
I live in a high socio economic suburb that is very leafy. There is money all around. Usually, older Australian money or shit hot lawyers. There is a tv anchor, a sports anchor, stock brokers, surgeons, politicians, senior public servants, business people, the occasional new money arrivals, and some other ad hocs like myself perhaps who neither is a part of the old money but just fortunate I guess. You even have power families like Downer himself. None are pretentious because they all seem quite well heeled and hence a bit more down to earth and classier. Why do Cypriots and Greeks behave like morons! Well the truth is I really don't know why. I just have my own opinion and assessment. But it a a fact that many of them, are just woeful people and very lonely to because the Aussies don't have much to do with them either. They usually judge the Aussies and put them down so the Aussies just run a mile away from the negativity. It might be a Diaspora thing which explains you, Kurupetos and Yialooser.
So why is Australia like that? Well, there is a mining and energy boom. Consumer demand is through the roof. House and land prices will make you want to drool and believe you are in Monaco. People have high disposable incomes now, and if you were smart and invested in the 80s, 90s or even just 10 years ago, you would be quite well off today. It's only in the last 10 years or so when things just accelerated at a phenomenal pace.
Of course you have some Greeks and Cypriots who have managed to remain well grounded in this environment. Boomerang is one such Cypriot. He makes around 500,000 per month from his business. It probably fluctuates too but with all the money he has and is making, you just wouldn't know it at all! Very down to earth and well heeled. But he, like I make a point of staying away from the usual Greek and Cypriot peasant scum and are very Australianised. If this were a Cypriot Peasant from Paphos, you wouldn't be able to speak to them and you wouldn't want to.
By the way, it's not just the Greeks and Cypriots. It's usually all other migrants. Italians, Greeks, Poles, Asians(save those from Japan and Hong Kong). The Germans seem to be the best. There is truth in the fact that they are a strong race. Many people do not realize but after the Anglo influence, Australia is very Germanic. About 10% of the population. They are superior to Greeks and Cypriots in terms of their behaviour!
Greeks and Cypriots are just judgmental, Gossiping and pretentious peasants.
That's what happens when you make money quickly straight from the Kolokasi fields of Paphos or Oitilo!
You lose a sense of who you are and where you came from because you have this over inflated opinion of yourself as you think your the only one with money. They think it is their intelligence. They forget they are Illiterate Peasants. They also forget that their money is mostly due to the economic environment currently present in Australia. It's not as if they worked hard for the money down a mine shaft or on an oil rig.
One of the reasons why I love the US is because cost of living is cheap there. In Australia it's not!
If you don't believe me, ask Boomerang!
by Flying Horse » Tue Jan 28, 2014 7:45 pm 
