tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336941957519877299.post4229473152362012610..comments2023-10-21T01:24:38.665-07:00Comments on Uncle Bill's Canadian blog: Which country do I belong to?Bill Stickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05285528897339442436noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336941957519877299.post-50151735860927774312010-06-28T06:31:17.827-07:002010-06-28T06:31:17.827-07:00Exile,
The phrase I was looking for is "I di...Exile,<br /><br />The phrase I was looking for is "I didn't leave my country, my country left me." The feeling of disenfranchisement is sometimes, for want of a better word, hollowing. You feel like a marionette with most of your cultural ties severed, flailing around for things to take their place. As you point out, this process has its good points.Bill Stickerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05285528897339442436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336941957519877299.post-67678588394714838962010-06-28T01:51:17.181-07:002010-06-28T01:51:17.181-07:00Jeez, with a few changes I could have written that...Jeez, with a few changes I could have written that, and coincidentally I've got a blog post forming in the back of my mind along similar lines. I'm a permanent resident and obviously ice hockey would have to be changed to Aussie Rules, but other than that we're in very similar positions. We even have a Costco in Melbourne now, though my preference is still for market produce. While I'm obviously not an Aussie I'm sort of not quite English anymore either. That's partly because I hold myself up to the Tebbit test and feel obliged to shout for Australia first, and partly for the same reasons as you, that the UK is not the place I left and therefore isn't there to go back to. I may have burned my bridges but it was others in the UK government who smashed the foundations and put in barbed wire and land mines where they used to be.<br /><br />England is where I started from but Australia is where I've made my home and that decides my loyalties for sport etc: England first, as it has always been, unless Australia are involved. In that case it's Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi. I blog mainly on UK issues because I'm still very fond of the old place and would rather it became a better and freer place to live.Angry Exilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02491082312193274360noreply@blogger.com