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Originally Posted by bathurst77
Actually cobber thats exactly what it means! Fair dinkum
Getting Australian citizenship is becoming "officially an Australian."
You can join the army or be called up if they choose.
If youre aussie enough to die for the country, youre an Aussie.
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OK, forget about all the legal and official paperwork, and let put it practically. If you're not born in Australia, you're not an Australian, and never can be. You can be a citizen of the Australia, but you'll never be an Australian.
I deal with a lot of asian immigrants, and when some of them say they are New Zealanders and I laugh at them, they wonder why. When I explain it to them, they seem to finally get it. Like if I got Chinese citizenship, no one on the planet would call say I'm Chinese, because I'm a white Kiwi and I look nothing like Chinese. The lines seem to be more easily blurred when it's white guy going to another white country because to look at them you can't tell where they were born.