Just for the record, WAV, I don't have a problem with you calling yourself English, if that's what you choose. I was using your own argument in order to demonstrate the foolishness of your position on nationality and culture.

One thing I would be very interested in; the reason why your parents chose to emigrate to Australia in the first place. For a better life over there perhaps? Most people who emigrated to Australia and elsewhere about that time did so for better employment prospects and a more prosperous life. Sounds like economic migration to me. It certainly wasn't seeking asylum in the nearest safe country was it? It is fair to assume that you grew up enjoying the many benefits of Australia and its society. In other words, you are a beneficiary of the kind of economic migration you now propose to deny to others on a global basis.

Pulling up the ladder?
Tim