Phony Aussie...
This guy was born in the states, moved to Australia when he was 12, now he's back in the US. Not Australian. Never was.
shareThose teen years are pretty formative.
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Both US and Aussie rubbed off on him. Probably more US.
shareIsn't that the case for over half of Australia's movie stars?
- Nicole Kidman
- Russell Crowe
- Sam Neil
- Hugo Weaving
- The Bee Gees
- Olivia Newton-John
Nicoles parents are actually Australian.
Didn’t know about Russell Crowe.
Sam Niel has nothing of Ozzy. His real name isnt even Sam.
Didn’t know about Hugo Weaving. Makes sense why at times he sounded too British.
I thought with the Bee Gees it was clear they were from Isle of Man. But now I see they started their music there so I can see the conception. Still a good one to list nonetheless.
Olivia Newton-John was a nice surprised. She always promoted the Australian angle. I’ve always been such a big fan.
I don’t get why these big mostly British Stars claim the Australian angle when most dont even prefer it as a preferred country. Must be a cash cow or something.
Also Health Ledger and my favourite, Hugh Jackman. From this list it completely dethrones my favourite ozzies of all-time. I don’t know where to go.
Are you saying immigrants aren't "real Americans" too?
shareYou're nationality is your country of birth. Citizenship is a different thing altogether.
shareWhat if you moved at the age of 12 and was never granted the citizenship in the country of your birth?
Let's say, you are Russian who was born in Soviet Union (in Lithuania), then moved to the US at the age of 12. Most of your relatives (who are all Russian, still still living in Lithuania) back home don't have Lithuanian passports, because the country made the citizenship test (the linguistic part) prohibitively hard. The only passport you have is from the US. WTF are you? Russian? Lithuanian? American?
None of this applies to Mel Gibson - but nationality/citizenship/ethnicity - citizenship is simple, ethnicity not always easy to determine if you are mixed - nationality can be very difficult to determine, especially when countries crumble to pieces and your ethnicity doesn't match the country you were born in, and your citizenship has no relations to your 'nationality' or 'ethnicity'.
Feeble effort at disowning. Mel Gibson has the mark of Sydney on him and don't try to worm out of it.
Does his Aussie accent sound received or absorbed? Meaning, does it still sound like someone who moved here and picked it up well enough that it isn't painfully noticeable or is it a pile of shit like the narrator for Outback Steakhouse TV commercials here in the States?
shareI don't give a fuck what his accent sounds like.
Australians can be extremely fickle like that. We're more than happy to claim foreigners as our own when they are loved and celebrated (Mel was definitely our favourite son during the 80s) and then disown them just as quickly when they f*ck up. Russell Crowe is another prime example, he was a lauded Aussie until he started throwing phones and now we just blame New Zealand.
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Korea does the same thing. What? You are famous and have great great grandmother who is Korean? Brother! Welcome!
What? You were born in Korea, and your parents were born here, but one of your great great grandmothers is Chinese and you are now in prison in the US for doing something wrong? Fuck off, you Chinese pig!
Yea. I just out. He is mostly Irish too. Though makes English movies. What shocks me is that Australians truly believe he is ozzy and have him in high regard.
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