Quote ="easyWire"Aus is a bit like the US in some respects. It is relatively isolated geographically in terms of borders, and isn't close enough to other nations to get a bit of a culture mix like we are used to in Europe. Within the country itself there are lots of races / ethnicities etc but from my time there I don't recall seeing anywhere near as much inter-racial relationships or even social mixing when compared to Europe.
I think the current generation of people Johns' age have probably grown up with casual racism, whereas for forty-somethings in the UK we've been reflecting on the issues a lot longer.
Hopefully it will get stamped out, although the far-right does seem to be getting a bit of a hold again.'"
They’ve called us Poms and Limies for decades if not longer.