tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post5686247047022421467..comments2023-06-16T16:08:23.446+01:00Comments on Edinburgh Housewife: Racial Incident on the Rough BusMrs McLeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095035617334068201noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-36176822473897726492015-04-13T13:08:28.958+01:002015-04-13T13:08:28.958+01:00I love the expression "cashed-up bogan."...I love the expression "cashed-up bogan." Mrs McLeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18095035617334068201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-22828100537800641112015-04-13T01:56:17.691+01:002015-04-13T01:56:17.691+01:00"Bogan" has many shades of meaning, and ..."Bogan" has many shades of meaning, and some Australians declare proudly that they are bogans. In general it means someone rough, uncultured and uncouth, but not necessarily "pov" (poor). There are now "cashed-up" bogans. I guess the British equivalents would be chavs, anyone on Geordie Shore, and all the sport WAGs.Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03992516879346846271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-384830530684800882015-04-12T22:22:58.421+01:002015-04-12T22:22:58.421+01:00I think that greatly depends on where you are on t...I think that greatly depends on where you are on the social scale and how much privilege you've grown up with. Someone like B.A., who went to university, doesn't feel like he has to fight strangers for scraps. The unemployed kid drunk at 2 in the afternoon who shouted at me and the Polish storekeeper to speak English? He's probably confused as to why, if there's no work for him, there's plenty of work for Poles. But neither B.A. nor the drunk kid is likely to vote for the one big anti-immigration party in the UK, UKIP. <br /><br />It goes without saying that Scotland is that white because (A) from the beginning of time until 1960 almost all Scots (Picts, Gaels, Vikings, Angles, Romans who went native, Saxons, Normans, French courtiers, about twelve Lithuanian Jews, returned Italian POWs and marooned Polish soldiers) were white. And Scotland has been dead poor for almost as long, so it's not a place non-European migrants are itching to populate. <br /><br />Speaking of UKIP, the threats and invasions the Scots worry about and resent the most are the English ones. Mrs McLeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18095035617334068201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-58319382302019936392015-04-12T21:19:24.706+01:002015-04-12T21:19:24.706+01:00I got around to looking at the census link you pos...I got around to looking at the census link you posted. I figured Scotland was white, but I didn't realize it was that white. I can imagine that seeing any person who doesn't look or sound like oneself is perceived as an instant threat and an invasion.Truthfinderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00937672867378660928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-53711151873769844032015-04-12T08:56:16.603+01:002015-04-12T08:56:16.603+01:00Food and drink issues of particular problem for bo...Food and drink issues of particular problem for bogans, if a bogan means a "socially excluded person". I know "socially excluded person" is p.c. speak, but I really hate the alternatives, especially when in Scotland they are actually native to the place, family lines stretching back a thousand years or thousands of years to the Angles, Gaels and Picts. Mrs McLeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18095035617334068201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-60922056081118113602015-04-12T08:35:09.208+01:002015-04-12T08:35:09.208+01:00Yeah. There a racist bogans like that in Australia...Yeah. There a racist bogans like that in Australia too. And you are right -- why is that bogan couples seem to always feature a rail-skinny man and a seriously overweight woman?Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03992516879346846271noreply@blogger.com