I've lived in Australia for 8 years

[a;sdlfkjas;df]

How so?

you have a place to live, an education, and whatever the fuck else you've gotten from australia.  i feel indebted to my state and my country.  i don't know why anyone shouldn't. (i do but in extreme cases)

This will only happen if you allow it to happen.

why fight it? 

This is why I had a fight with my teacher in High School. Who is anyone to give me the option to leave, or say something like this. Fuck that if anything I'm the one that should be saying this to others since I came here legally and not as a convict/land thief you dig?

i think you're missing my point, and i may be missing something about you.  i don't like where i am.  i'm here for a variety of reasons.  you may have your own, but i sure as fuck won't stay here longer than i have to

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why fight it? 

i'm going to have to disagree with you. the "natural progression" of things shouldn't mean that you let, say american culture take over your own culture. you do have to fight it, but in the sense that you don't lose where you come from. it's probably easier to understand if you knew how it feels; it feels shitty to me knowing that i speak english over spanish because the spanish language is where my culture directly comes from...not that i have any complaints of speaking perfect english.

[a;sdlfkjas;df]

it's probably easier to understand if you knew how it feels

my memere spoke cajun french.  i don't.

say american culture take over your own culture. you do have to fight it

it seems as if it would be counterintuitive after a while.  it's not if your culture is gone either.  your culture is alive and well

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what do your parents speak; what culture and lifestyle do they follow? not one foreign to the united states.

[TW89]

Why should foreigners join your culture? do they ask you to join in their cultures?? '

I'm not goin to their country though am i, they're comin over 'ere.

What he means its silly here in the uk cause the were gonna ban the english flag or something so it doesnt offend the ethnic minority.

Yeah, fukin crazy is that.

Though i dislike aussies (in a banter way) kinda respect them cos they dont take any shit. People cant jus go into their country and get everythin free like they do over here, they say you gotta have a trade, which we should do and not let every c*nt in.

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people like you piss me off. just accept the fact that there are immigrants with different languages and different cultures who don't neccessarily want to become like the people in that country. as far as i know, that's what my country is based on.

[a;sdlfkjas;df]

what do your parents speak; what culture and lifestyle do they follow? not one foreign to the united states.

my culture is dead to me, and overall, it's dying.  it's sad, but it happens.  i don't consider myself cajun.  it took you know who years to figure out that most of me was cajun, not french.  it's one of those things.

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it dies over time, but a long time. you can't expect people that move here to just kill there culture immediately. it takes time.

[TW89]

people like you piss me off. just accept the fact that there are immigrants with different languages and different cultures who don't neccessarily want to become like the people in that country. as far as i know, that's what my country is based on.

Yeah I realise that, but if they did join in and integrate more there wouldnt be a problem as there obv. is here.

[a;sdlfkjas;df]

it dies over time, but a long time. you can't expect people that move here to just kill there culture immediately. it takes time.

yeah, i know, but to say i don't know how it feels?  i don't necessarily agree with that.  do i express what i feel?  not often, but what i am will probably disappear off of the face of the planet.  it's shitty, but for the situation, it is inevitable.

i get caught up in what it means to save a culture.  there will be, for the forseeable future, a honduras and "a (this is very loose)" somalia.

i don't know

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i don't think you know how it feels to be raised in one country by people from another country; that's what i'm saying. the feeling of having two cultures, two identities, having two distinct nationalities (sure i don't have duel citizenship yet but it would only take me a second)

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But still I refuse to call myself Australian. Is this wrong?

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yes it is rong. if u live here for 8 years, this is ur country. if u got the passport, ur australian. start calling urself australian with a [country]background