Yeah...traditionally Greeks in Australia had the fruiterers, delis and milk bars (take away shops).
Now days, young greeks want nothing to do with their parent's businesses and have good jobs in the professions like the rest of us.
Yeah, the same thing is happening in the US. The parents or grandparents ran some sort of food shop and now the kids are becoming lawyers, doctors, stockbrokers or computer specialists. Except me that is, I'm just a lowly staffer at a school district.
I'd love to visit Australia some day. I actually have relatives there that I've never met. In Melbourne I believe. Isn't that where most of the Greek population is?
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Biggest Greek city besides Athens is Melbourne.
In the fifties, greeks and italians were called 'wogs' and dagoes, but now.........they're as Aussie as all of us anglos. Nobody thinks of a Con or Mario as a foreigner. When the anti-muslim butt kicking happened in Sydney, the greek and italian kids were all shoulder to shoulder with the anglo/celtic aussies.
The greeks and ities did very well here because they came, saw how great it was, loved it and worked their bums off to build a good life with big houses and good education for their kids.
The stinkung arabs have a 65+% unemployment rate and they HATE the country and us. You can see the difference in attitude.