ETHNICITY?

[Demps]

Didn't even reach 100 votes.
Cmon west's tigers forum!

 

[Byron_Bay_Fan]

:sign: Ten Pound migrant from Glasgow Scotland in 1961….

In that era an Englishman could virtually just step off the boat as a tourist and stay here. We got many a good tradesmen via the TPP.

 

[Danny Blanco]

Serbian

I used to love the Serbian "chess" cafe at Cabramatta - one of my favourite hide outs in Sydney. Bet $300 a game and even riots sometimes. Their rugby league team lost to Filipino team a few years back - was a great game by the Pinoys.

Good times BFF. Love the chess cafes. Cabramatta was plagued with crime in the 90's unfortunately (see 5T, Paul Newman, heroin, Serbian/Vietnamese gangs). Times are changing though, and by all accounts, Cabramatta is enjoying a revival due to a clean-up of the area and hipster culinary reviews..

Love my Filos. Delightful people.

 

[Danny Blanco]

:sign: Ten Pound migrant from Glasgow Scotland in 1961….

In that era an Englishman could virtually just step off the boat as a tourist and stay here. We got many a good tradesmen via the TPP.

Million pound poms.

 

[Demps]

Serbian

I used to love the Serbian "chess" cafe at Cabramatta - one of my favourite hide outs in Sydney. Bet $300 a game and even riots sometimes. Their rugby league team lost to Filipino team a few years back - was a great game by the Pinoys.

Good times BFF. Love the chess cafes. Cabramatta was plagued with crime in the 90's unfortunately (see 5T, Paul Newman, heroin, Serbian/Vietnamese gangs). Times are changing though, and by all accounts, Cabramatta is enjoying a revival due to a clean-up of the area and hipster culinary reviews..

Love my Filos. Delightful people.

sing wah

 

[Byron_Bay_Fan]

Serbian

I used to love the Serbian "chess" cafe at Cabramatta - one of my favourite hide outs in Sydney. Bet $300 a game and even riots sometimes. Their rugby league team lost to Filipino team a few years back - was a great game by the Pinoys.

Good times BFF. Love the chess cafes. Cabramatta was plagued with crime in the 90's unfortunately (see 5T, Paul Newman, heroin, Serbian/Vietnamese gangs). Times are changing though, and by all accounts, Cabramatta is enjoying a revival due to a clean-up of the area and hipster culinary reviews..

Love my Filos. Delightful people.

I was their from 2,000 when it was still on - didn't worry me, I would dob the dealers into cops and they would be yelling out they would kill me when being marched out by the cops. All the Viets would dob me into the dealers to clear themselves. I had to hassle the cops about a dozen times to come when business was hot- it gave me the impression that they may have been on the take. My unit did somersaults in price once the place was cleaned up.

 

[Geo]

Byron Underbelly Bay..

 

[Byron_Bay_Fan]

If someone was dying in the street many people just ignored them (it was usually an unfortunate Aussie, never seen a Viet.). The Viet unit owners would dob me in to the dealers for dobbing them in to the cops so they would not cop the flak. I had a knife stabbed into my front door once but didn't care poop about that.

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Up early after a hard night on the choof Byron…

 

[Spartan117]

Serbian

I used to love the Serbian "chess" cafe at Cabramatta - one of my favourite hide outs in Sydney. Bet $300 a game and even riots sometimes. Their rugby league team lost to Filipino team a few years back - was a great game by the Pinoys.

Good times BFF. Love the chess cafes. Cabramatta was plagued with crime in the 90's unfortunately (see 5T, Paul Newman, heroin, Serbian/Vietnamese gangs). Times are changing though, and by all accounts, Cabramatta is enjoying a revival due to a clean-up of the area and hipster culinary reviews..

Love my Filos. Delightful people.

Cabra and Canley have magnificent food. Still make the drive every now and then

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Serbian

I used to love the Serbian "chess" cafe at Cabramatta - one of my favourite hide outs in Sydney. Bet $300 a game and even riots sometimes. Their rugby league team lost to Filipino team a few years back - was a great game by the Pinoys.

Good times BFF. Love the chess cafes. Cabramatta was plagued with crime in the 90's unfortunately (see 5T, Paul Newman, heroin, Serbian/Vietnamese gangs). Times are changing though, and by all accounts, Cabramatta is enjoying a revival due to a clean-up of the area and hipster culinary reviews..

Love my Filos. Delightful people.

Cabra and Canley have magnificent food. Still make the drive every now and then

I have a Chinese/Cambodian friend who lives at Canley, he introduced me to food scene at Cabra and my appreciation for South East Asian food is a lot better than it used to be. Still not really fond of Chinese, but very much like Thai/Laotian/Cambodian food as a result. Good eats there for those sorts of cuisines.

 

[joelw2002]

Australian born, mum's parents migrated from Croatia and Slovenia during World War 2, dad's parents migrated from Poland during World War 2 as well.

 

[Byron_Bay_Fan]

Australian born, mum's parents migrated from Croatia and Slovenia during World War 2, dad's parents migrated from Poland during World War 2 as well.

Are you particularly close to any of those ethnic groups or you are Oz? Do both sides oldies get together much? any chess players amongst them?

 

[joelw2002]

Australian born, mum's parents migrated from Croatia and Slovenia during World War 2, dad's parents migrated from Poland during World War 2 as well.

Are you particularly close to any of those ethnic groups or you are Oz? Do both sides oldies get together much? any chess players amongst them?

My dad's the only one left on his side out of his parents and his siblings, he can't even speak Polish, my uncle could when he was younger but unfortunately forgot all of it and passed away recently. All of my aunties on my mum's side can speak Croatian and they get together with some of their Serbian and Croatian friends from child hood every now and then. But apart from that I'm not too deep into the backgrounds, I'm mostly Aussie, I've only been to that Croatian club King Toms a few times and I was there for the world cup final and everyone was singing Croatian songs and I didn't understand any of it. :laughing: I would like to learn either Polish or Croatian but I can't decide because I feel like it will be too hard to learn 2 languages.

 

[Byron_Bay_Fan]

thanks, it is good that the Croats and Serbs are still friendly.

I have Lebo background and nothing is more heartening than traditional Lebo songs passed down even if we didn't understand all the words. My relos are too religious for me to mix much.

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Australian born, mum's parents migrated from Croatia and Slovenia during World War 2, dad's parents migrated from Poland during World War 2 as well.

Are you particularly close to any of those ethnic groups or you are Oz? Do both sides oldies get together much? any chess players amongst them?

My dad's the only one left on his side out of his parents and his siblings, he can't even speak Polish, my uncle could when he was younger but unfortunately forgot all of it and passed away recently. All of my aunties on my mum's side can speak Croatian and they get together with some of their Serbian and Croatian friends from child hood every now and then. But apart from that I'm not too deep into the backgrounds, I'm mostly Aussie, I've only been to that Croatian club King Toms a few times and I was there for the world cup final and everyone was singing Croatian songs and I didn't understand any of it. :laughing: I would like to learn either Polish or Croatian but I can't decide because I feel like it will be too hard to learn 2 languages.

I'd learn Croat because the written language of Polish is apparently insane. The Cyrillic alphabet would have been perfect for Polish but they stayed with the Latin alphabet.

 

[Doc_Tiger]

Born in Bulli, Mum emigrated from Holland as a kid, dads grand father was from Italy. He went to Bega and we still have plenty of family around there.

 

[Russell]

thanks, it is good that the Croats and Serbs are still friendly.

I have Lebo background and nothing is more heartening than traditional Lebo songs passed down even if we didn't understand all the words. My relos are too religious for me to mix much.

The Croats I know are not friendly to any Serbs.

Ever heard of the Bosnian war??

 

[Danny Blanco]

Serbian

I used to love the Serbian "chess" cafe at Cabramatta - one of my favourite hide outs in Sydney. Bet $300 a game and even riots sometimes. Their rugby league team lost to Filipino team a few years back - was a great game by the Pinoys.

Good times BFF. Love the chess cafes. Cabramatta was plagued with crime in the 90's unfortunately (see 5T, Paul Newman, heroin, Serbian/Vietnamese gangs). Times are changing though, and by all accounts, Cabramatta is enjoying a revival due to a clean-up of the area and hipster culinary reviews..

Love my Filos. Delightful people.

Cabra and Canley have magnificent food. Still make the drive every now and then

Really good burek around there too.

 

[Danny Blanco]

Serbian

I used to love the Serbian "chess" cafe at Cabramatta - one of my favourite hide outs in Sydney. Bet $300 a game and even riots sometimes. Their rugby league team lost to Filipino team a few years back - was a great game by the Pinoys.

Good times BFF. Love the chess cafes. Cabramatta was plagued with crime in the 90's unfortunately (see 5T, Paul Newman, heroin, Serbian/Vietnamese gangs). Times are changing though, and by all accounts, Cabramatta is enjoying a revival due to a clean-up of the area and hipster culinary reviews..

Love my Filos. Delightful people.

sing wah

Haha. Sing wa. They use to hang out @ TimeZone on George St. From what I remember 5t were the real deal.