Re: Casual racism
I'm not confused thanks ... I reserve that honour and mental faculty failing to you.
I'm English. I am, by dint of association both geographical and political, also British. I have a Head of State ...
the same as yours.. Astounding hey! A British Queen as your Head of State.
So in future, irrespective of your geographical position I'll think of you as a sort of lingering and malingering Brit by proxy, therefore you too can claim to be European.
Makes sense actually the more I think about it.
Aussies don't have a culture of their own. No distinctive national attribute. Never developed one ... unless I imagine a rather surreal indigenous Aborigine throwing another shrimp on the barbie.