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Post by Selestial on Dec 14, 2006 12:13:50 GMT 10
Yeah, I bet these are the kind who support that immigrants pass a questionnaire before becoming citizens. I bet the majority of people born and raised here would't pass that questionnaire!! If we didn't want an Irish-born to win Idol, he would've been voted off ages ago. And forgotten. He didn't win Idol and then say "Oh, by the way, I'm Irish". It was pretty obvious to us that he was! OK, that's the last thing I'm ever going to say on this subject.  |
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Post by hyperrune on Dec 14, 2006 14:33:19 GMT 10
The other two girls arent really saying anything offensive and to be honest, I suspect the interviewer probably mentioned that Damien wasn't an Aussie citizen when they were asked for their opinion. Yeah, it's a bit like going up to someone and saying "should someone from another country be the Australian Idol?" If you haven't seen the show and don't know anything about him, it sounds like they're testing your Australianess, so of course you're going to say "no, it should be an Australian citizen". I don't know if the question was intentionally phrased to get that reaction, but even if it wasn't, whoever came up with it was rather insensitive and didn't consider their readership properly. |
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Post by irishrokit on Dec 14, 2006 21:28:19 GMT 10
Getting sick of hearing the whole citizenship thing. Someone wrote in to the paper here last week saying he shouldn't have won because blah something about irish blah blah old news more blah blah  But the next day someone wrote in saying it doesn't matter we should accept all nationalities and be happy that they want to live in this coutry and that we're all migrants anyway and that we should embrace the talents of all nationalities  I'll pass out the day I read a heading that says "What do you think of Damien Leith winning AI" or "The amazingly talented Damien Leith" Instead of always bringing up his nationality. I couldn't careless that his irish, actually to me it's a good thing *the accent, the fact that the majority of irish people seem very nice* But overall it's a singing comp so get over it. If Dean won do you think they would have bought up about a sth african winning? I think it would have been more "What do you think about gorgeous Dean Geyer winning AI" or "Isn't it good to see someone win who's the whole package" If it was one of many other nationalities they wouldn't bring it up at all for fear of people thinking they were racists "I personally thought an Australian Citizen should have won, even though he's going to be a citizen next year" Hmm so if he went on next year and won this argument wouldn't have been bought up? I doubt it. He's still talented enough to win wheather he has his citizenship or not, it doesn't make a whole lot of diff. Obviously the person that asked the questions wasn't a fan of Damien and they just wanted to give a certain view. But it's true there's no point getting nasty cause there's really no point to all 3 of those comments. They didn't say anything intelligent or new. In the words of the beautifully written prefabricated sign by the well known, sellout recording artist Adora-Rose "Love and Peace"  *is sarcasm the same as being nasty* I wonder if Kristy is related to Rove ;D |
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But the next day someone wrote in saying it doesn't matter we should accept all nationalities and be happy that they want to live in this coutry and that we're all migrants anyway and that we should embrace the talents of all nationalities 