Dear Banjo,

I was merely responding to Antonios' posts on
migrants. Trying to tell him -
that you can't lump them all together.
There are differences.

My apologies.

I should have stuck to the subject of this thread,
which as you rightly point out deals with
Indian students, not migrants.

Foxy,
Hope you retain what you said in your post as I would most probably like us to expand on some of the points you made. It was, I thought, well said and set out.

Am sure before long the subject of integration will come up. Am always most interested in your opinion on most issues.

Foxy,
I said you that I am in love with equal opportunities, I want to see her, to meat her, to touch her!
Is equal opportunities in prison for life? I want to visit her!
Is equal opportunities hiden in the desert? I want to find her!
Is equal opportunities expeled to the uper space? I have litle savings I want to buy a telescope and see her from very far!
Tell me foxy is equal opportunities a real "person" or migrant's elusion, migrant's dream and hope?
I am geting old, Foxy, I am near 60 and I want to know if my children, my grant children will live with the equal opportunities or they will sufer like me.
Foxy I am sorry , I was hard to you but I try to tell many people these simple things but no one listen for equal opportunities.
I know migrants must continue searching and fighting for equal opportunities.
EVIVA THE LOST, HIDEN, PRISONED, EXPELED EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES!
Antonios Symeonakis
Adelaide

Leigh,
Here is a couple of things that may interest you in relation to this thread. Harris Park is a western suburb of Sydney, near parramatta.

From todays SMH

http://www.smh.com.au/national/assault-indians-rally-in-sydney-20090609-c10x.html

http://www.smh.com.au/editorial

Antonios,

There are a lot of people who would share your plea for equal opportunity. My parents were also migrants who came to Australia in 1949 after the war. Like you, they had a good and solid work ethic and hoped for a better life in Australia. While they have suffered from not fitting in with the mainstream, they have good down-to-earth family values etc that many in the mainstream do not have. Six of one, half-dozen of the other. I think it’s fair to say that everybody is being crimped in life in some way while other parts of their lives are good. So, my advice would be to be happy with what you’ve got and let the rest take care of itself (I think it will over time – the global financial crisis is a sign of things to come like the fall of the Berlin Wall was for the break up of communist Russia).

I think fighting in what you believe in is good, but only up to a point. Your approach reminds me of the unions – they continually fight on via their mono-message, but what they don’t see is that it has reached saturation point. They reach the point where going any further along their track won’t help their cause, but possibly even hinder it. It’s time perhaps to let the next generation come through with their ideas – it’s quite possible they’ll see where your and my generation got it wrong and will rebalance the situation. Perhaps a strategy of “less is more” is needed in this situation.

I am pleased that many immigrants I know have not got a victim mentality and are very grateful to be in such a free country. I can't understand people who come from crap countries and then complain about this one. They should be sent home until they wake up to their stupidity.