"how on earth can you consider yourself to be an 'Aussie' when your grandparents came from England, Ireland & Germany?"
People from many nations established this country and its' culture Ddzx, including the early arriving camel drivers from Afghanistan. We found our feet and got on so well together that those here with the old Afghani bloodlines probably don't even know it. Furthermore, we forged our own unique culture, much of which has now been buried by the changing times and it is this aspect that so many detest.
The scientists tell us that we all migrated out of Africa 100,000 years ago (although I have my doubts). If what the scientists say is correct then we all share common ancestry and all are migrants. How else could it have been?
Expansion of population requires expansion of living space.
