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AussieMatty
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04 Jun 2012, 7:50 am

Almajo88 wrote:

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If you are wondering, it was the question regarding the worth of he lives of foreigners versus the worth of the lives of your countrymen. Considering that I am muself an immigrant and most of my family are foreign, I find such a view not only simply offputting bt personally insulting. I cannot be more polite about this in any way. Your romantic experience is entirely irrelevant to my reaction.

I find this ridiculously biased and offensive to the Australians.......considering herself being a foreigner and her family. It does seem she is going to have very hard time to live in Australia with that sort of attitude like that. Don't you think so?

It's offensive to Australians to suggest that non-Australians are equal? I don't think I follow. Explain your position on that?

It took a LONG time and a lot of messages but I've finally found someone interesting to chat to on OkCupid. I really like her and we're planning to go on a date. She's actually going to the same uni as me so if this goes well I reckon this will lead to an actual relationship and good times all round

See the quote above mate.

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04 Jun 2012, 8:29 am

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Good news, lad.

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04 Jun 2012, 8:44 am

AussieMatty wrote:

In other note I had 41 profile views this week. Its so much isn't it? So, it can't be finding the right one by 1 in 1. It more like 1 in a 1000 or so.

I got this message from PHD student in Brisbane who moved there as an immigrant. Her message below is:

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I don't even fully understand this. I wouldn't reply back, sounds like a trolling message.

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04 Jun 2012, 9:08 am

AussieMatty wrote:

I got this message from PHD student in Brisbane who moved there as an immigrant. Her message below is:

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It depends on what you wrote to get that response from her. What was "the question" exactly? You may have come off as being very hateful towards non-Australians. It's one thing to have national pride (heaven knows, my Australian ex balked at all the American flags lying around these parts, but his own national pride pretty well dwarfed it), but talking about "the worth of lives" of others is pushing a limit, unless she's the one misinterpreting what you were saying to begin with.

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04 Jun 2012, 9:21 am

NicoleG wrote:

AussieMatty wrote:

I got this message from PHD student in Brisbane who moved there as an immigrant. Her message below is:

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It was probably one of his match questions he answered. Some girls go through guys match question answers via their profile (under the "two of us" tab)

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04 Jun 2012, 9:55 am

blue_bean wrote:

It was probably one of his match questions he answered. Some girls go through guys match question answers via their profile (under the "two of us" tab)

Ah. I've never personally been on OKC, nor do I ever plan to, but I've seen enough sites to understand how they work in general.

Questions that involve a person's pride can be easily misconstrued if read/taken incorrectly. People still make dumb and downright incorrect associations, like, "I'm a proud German," somehow equates to, "Oh, so you're a Nazi and want to enact global genocide." Why can't people grow some brains? Of course, I come off as pro-zombie when I ask questions like that.

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04 Jun 2012, 10:40 am

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Well, if you feel the life of a foreigner is worth less than a native and considering unless you're aborigine you're an immigrant... see where im going with this?

There is a difference between Nationality and Geography. Basically, you can be "Australian", and live in Australia, and then you can be a Foreign Nationality living in Australia amongst the "Australians".

This is an obnoxious strawman that gets brought up in the US all the time by pro-illegal immigrant groups. But really, once a group of people has conquered and inhabited another people's former lands long enough.. they cease being "Immigrants". What the argument really should be is, "Just because your anscestors worked hard to build all of this, gives you no right to keep it all to yourself, and you should be happy these people from a dirt poor country are coming here to get their share of your cultural inheritance.. while also forcing you to accept and tolerate their atrocious architecture, honor killings, and barbaric religious practices".

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04 Jun 2012, 10:50 am

rabbittss wrote:

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Well, if you feel the life of a foreigner is worth less than a native and considering unless you're aborigine you're an immigrant... see where im going with this?

What that "strawman" means is stop being a racist bastard and learn to let people live. You dont have to embrace their traditions, just letthem do their thing if it doesnt hurt anyone.

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04 Jun 2012, 10:54 am

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So what was her view? Was it that the life of an immigrant was worth just as much as a native-born person, or more than, or less than?

I have no idea! I never told her I was indigenous Australian...

Ah. Well, what was your view (the question that she was reacting to)?

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04 Jun 2012, 10:58 am

MXH wrote:

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Well, if you feel the life of a foreigner is worth less than a native and considering unless you're aborigine you're an immigrant... see where im going with this?

What that "strawman" means is stop being a racist bastard and learn to let people live. You dont have to embrace their traditions, just letthem do their thing if it doesnt hurt anyone.

That isn't acceptable, the PC police will not let you simply Tolerate them, they force you to 'embrace' them, and also force you to provide all signage in multiple languages.

Also, No, I'll be a "Racist bastard" (Seriously, since when did Nationality = Race?) till the day I die if it means that all the things the Colonials, Slaves/Unwilling immigrants, Pioneers, Settlers and LEGAL immigrants worked so hard to build in the USA, goes to their descendents rather than people who are, effectively, queue jumpers.

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04 Jun 2012, 11:01 am

So I saw these Muslims the other day, and do you know what they were doing?

... HAVING A BARBECUE. At the BEACH!

I don't know what they were talking about because they were talking in Foreign, but I'm guessing it was their plot to fly a plane into the side of my house. The side that my dog is in, no less.

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04 Jun 2012, 11:10 am

Who_Am_I wrote:

So I saw these Muslims the other day, and do you know what they were doing?

... HAVING A BARBECUE.

At the BEACH!

I don't know what they were talking about because they were talking in Foreign, but I'm guessing it was their plot to fly a plane into the side of my house. The side that my dog is in, no less.

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04 Jun 2012, 11:10 am

Who_Am_I wrote:

So I saw these Muslims the other day, and do you know what they were doing?

... HAVING A BARBECUE.

At the BEACH!

I don't know what they were talking about because they were talking in Foreign, but I'm guessing it was their plot to fly a plane into the side of my house. The side that my dog is in, no less.

I'm less interested in who/where they came from than their immigration status (the US doesn't have a vast problem with Illegal immigrants from Muslim countries, so chances are if they are Muslim in the US, they are Legal Immigrants in which case I hope they make the most of it and succeed) I'm also not particularly concerned with them speaking their native language so long as they at least attempt to learn mine (which I know, isn't easy).

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04 Jun 2012, 11:13 am

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I bet you're the type of person that would tell me to "go back to mexico" when i am speaking spanish. You know, forgetting that im puertorican and all. I stand by the racist bastard comment. Nobody has forced you to embrace anything. What they have forced you was to let them have their first ammendment freedoms. You know, freedom of press, religion, speech, etc.

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04 Jun 2012, 11:13 am

MXH wrote:

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I bet you're the type of person that would tell me to "go back to mexico" when i am puertorican.

Go back to Chile.

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04 Jun 2012, 11:19 am

MXH wrote:

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I bet you're the type of person that would tell me to "go back to mexico" when i am puertorican.

You're presupposing I'd talk to you in the first place. I don't talk to people in public, that I don't know, typically, let alone to shout at them. If people are here illegally, I feel it's the job of ICE/INS to deal with the problem, not my responsibility to scream at people who are only trying to make money, but it's an issue of fairness, there are millions of people all over the world who want to come to the US, and they patiently wait in line for the chance.. rather than having their first act be to flagrantly disregard our laws through impatience.

Further, I'd happily self-deport myself back to the place my anscestors came from.. but alas.. I'm not south-asian so England won't let me in!

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