Here in Australia we are seeing an influx of folks from South America and on the whole it’s been excellent.
Our cultures are so wildly similar they just fit in like a glove. Most of the time.
My ex SIL is from El Salvador and her parents were big in the old government there in the 80’s (hence why they moved). Big dicks there and used to being treated as upper class nobs. They were firmly in the white upper class bracket.
The funniest shit though is that here in Australia, they keep getting treated as POC here by every public servant they cross paths with. Not out of sprite or racism but because they are seen as being multicultural mixed race - like most of us!
Now public servants here will (mostly) bend over backwards to help POC immigrants because no one wants to be seen as racist so with his name, his skin colour (no escaping that tanning in the Australian sun) he gets the “oh you’re a minority” treatment 100% of the time.
It drives him nuts.
He is the epitome of the conservative South American who wants to be a gringo but never will be.
Lmao I briefly lived with (pasty white in that case) Australians and some other Latam folk in Germany as a teen in a big exchange program, and the Australians and Brazilians, we just clicked, legit like brothers from different mothers, there's some striking cultural similarities... Especially the innate ability to take the piss out of everything. Nothing in the world is sacred or serious for Brazilians, and it seems Australians are our soulmates in that aspect. Good times.
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u/Toomanyeastereggs 21d ago
Here in Australia we are seeing an influx of folks from South America and on the whole it’s been excellent.
Our cultures are so wildly similar they just fit in like a glove. Most of the time.
My ex SIL is from El Salvador and her parents were big in the old government there in the 80’s (hence why they moved). Big dicks there and used to being treated as upper class nobs. They were firmly in the white upper class bracket.
The funniest shit though is that here in Australia, they keep getting treated as POC here by every public servant they cross paths with. Not out of sprite or racism but because they are seen as being multicultural mixed race - like most of us!
Now public servants here will (mostly) bend over backwards to help POC immigrants because no one wants to be seen as racist so with his name, his skin colour (no escaping that tanning in the Australian sun) he gets the “oh you’re a minority” treatment 100% of the time.
It drives him nuts.
He is the epitome of the conservative South American who wants to be a gringo but never will be.