Two Migrant Boys - Peter And Andrew (Melbourne c1969) Children

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The ABC did a documentary on our family in the early 1970's about migrant children in Australia. The camera crew followed me and my brother around for a few months and filmed us at home, at school and the Victorian Markets. It shows my own Greek migrant family. My mom and dad working whilst we the kids look after themselves and go to school on our own. My (late) dad at Australian Motor Industries spot-welding Toyota Corollas whilst my mom worked at Playtex making bras and underwear. It also shows our Commer van which was pivotal in transporting the kids around (the first MPV?) to Greek school and back to their homes. It also shows Lee Street Primary School Carlton as the English School. Its filmed around Melbourne Victoria (Fitzroy, Gertrude Street Collingwood, Exhibition Buildings, Nicholson Street Carlton, Canning Street Carlton, Victoria Markets, etc). Contact me on [e-mail]

[@Andy-fk8ou]

Memories of the days we grew up in Port Melbourne mum and dad had to go of to work and we looked after ourselves. Remember the Greek kids went of to Greek school kids these days wouldn't be able to cope.

[@techno302]

colour version here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hGbFnqJqeb1joZosi=W85mmwRYQm3nWp0j

[@darioburatovich2240]

Children alone at home, that was the high price of immigration for many children with immigrant parents. Isolation and no relatives in Australia made life some times difficult for us, immigrant parents. Those who think immigrants should "forget" about their origines, childhood, relatives, parents, and heritage, simply don't understand the matter they are talking about. Only an immigrant knows what it is like to be one. I salute Greek immigrants,past and present.

[@viviekazanili1077]

Goosh how i miss the look of those days that brings back a lot of memories miss my childhood yrs.

[@suefoo7148]

Fantastic video thank you ! . My grandmother, mother and aunt were Greek migrants so it was touching to see. My widowed grandmother became a successful business woman and provided very well for her kids which was wonderful. Greek people are decedents of the great intellectuals including Aristotle, Plato and Archimedes so we do have a few clues.

[@mindfulness1118]

You are Greek too. You have Greek blood running through your veins……. ! Irrespective where you were born. Be proud of your DNA and your heritage. You have a lot to be proud about. Never forget your Ancestry, History & Culture. ❤🇬🇷 ❤

[@tinatheodoridis5014]

,Being proud of one's ethnicity does not equate to racism!

[@robertneuer4061]

Its amazing how many kids can fit in the Commer Van

[@techno302]

I was charged with opening and closing the door. Many times I didn't close it properly and it flung open. No seatbelts, no safety, different (safer) times now

[@makinnoizemedia]

Hey mate, nice to meet ya ya Bella tonight!

[@ripabong]

OMG, I think I went to Merri Primary School Fitzroy with Conie in 1976/77.

[@rosemaryoverell1375]

My parents lived in Drummond street in the mid 70s - wave of students who led gentrification. But they still had memories of lots of migrants living nearby.

[@techno302]

we were in canning street. a few blocks down. the full colour version is here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hGbFnqJqeb1joZosi=W85mmwRYQm3nWp0j

[@rosemaryoverell1375]

@@techno302 great! I’ve shared with my parents, the colour one!

[@ACDZ123]

Fun fact Melbourne has twice as many Italians than greeks even tho Melbourne has the 2nd largest greek community outside athens in Melbourne ..

[@parisriskos3267]

Fucking brilliant!!

[@LondonPower]

greeks gave humanity democrasy best ever gift

[@childrensorg856]

I didn't like them when I was at school. A bit full of themselves.

[@tsiaa6790]

@@childrensorg856 Have you met every single Greek person to come to that conclusion?

[@childrensorg856]

@@tsiaa6790 yes I have and i dislike them.

[@tsiaa6790]

​@@childrensorg856 Well everyone is entitled to an opinion Mary, even if that opinion is downright ignorant. Your generalising an ethnic group of just over 13 million. To me, it seems you should grow up. Even if you have had a bad experience with one Greek person that does not give you the right to generalise us all.

[@childrensorg856]

@@tsiaa6790 lol, you say everyone is entitled to their opinion then you call me ignorant. Lolololololololol.

[@psychedelicprawncrumpets9479]

If you didn't say 70s in the title I would of sworn this was 50s 60s.. What year was this filming?

[@LeopoldoNotarianni-rk9vv]

Late 1971

[@freddybanks4280]

mate why are you so angry about, greeks?. they arent the problem of this country, lm sure we have other problems that are much greater to worry about, at hand, we as australians have to stop this madness on attacting new australians,, your words are rather dated, rasical issues are not welcome in this day and age, l truly hope you find peace in your heart and soul,may you resolve your problems, you know the more you hate what ever it is in your life you will attract it, its the way of the universe. peace!!! alex.

[@childrensorg856]

Lol. The teacher looks like Roger Vodouris.

[@davechristian7543]

10:21 U would have thought they would have been thought english not how to be a better greek in australia #PMSL Guessing that answers my first comment

[@karmicselling4252]

LOL. Virtually all children of Greek immigrants to Australia grew up to be bilingual adults. Many of the local "Aussie kids" they grew up with at the time could barely speak English properly, let alone any language other than English.

[@davechristian7543]

Wonder why the children of german immigrants like my self didnt have a wogy aussie accent but only the greeks n Italians did haha Very strange

[@DEmetree11]

2nd generation Greek here, can answer this for you! Most of us are bi-lingual, Greeks like latins and arabs roll the tongue in our mother tongue, so when we speak English we sound quite different then a true blue Ozzie or Anglo Saxon. Your tongue placement in your mouth is different based on the language you speak. to this day I am asked what my accent is, when I was born here ahaha The same goes for most other blokes in the same boat as me! That’s goes if they spoke both languages at home regularly especially during development, Hope I was able to help!

[@karmicselling4252]

Mainly because the immigrants from central and northern Europe tended to integrate and assimilate a lot more easily with the locals than the Southern Europeans. And just as importantly because people that come from Germanic speaking countries tend to speak with accents that sound very similar to English ones. The southern Europeans inc. the Spanish, Italians and Greeks speak differntly because their native accents are very different because of the way they articulate sounds and words with their voices.

[@gypsyskopiancimaimoudonci3581]

ALEKO.. an einai sto xeri sas na to kanete!!

[@karmicselling4252]

Not "Peter and Andrew" .... PETROS ke ANDREAS !!!

[@bigears4426]

It's funny how greek people always want to be greek , my father came to australia to be part of australia

[@HELLENICPRIDE100]

+Big Ears....... What is so funny about being proud of your identity and wanting to retain it? I was born in a country outside of Greece, my family migrated to Australia in 1960 (ten years before this film) a move which marked the beginning of the end of my parent's lives., may they Rest In Peace. I am very proud to be of Greek origins, because i have NOTHING to be ashamed of, HAVE YOU? I have aged after contributing lots to Australia, have served Australia in more ways than militarily and would still fight for this country, even at my age.Being proud of my origins does not preclude me from being loyal to Australia and what it stands for and all my loyal Aussie mates know this and accepted me for many years now. A person not proud of his/her roots is a person without principles!!!! Life was not easy in the seventies, imagine how the fifties and the sixties were. Still, GOD BLESS AUSTRALIA!!!

[@bigears4426]

HELLENICPRIDE100 what i mean is they always want mix with only greek people and marry greek people , and even go back to greece to have children , i never said anything about being proud or not. Most third generations are just Aussie and couldn't care one hoot for greece anymore. My parents were german im 100 percent Australian

[@HELLENICPRIDE100]

@@bigears4426 Why are you generalising? You are wrong in ALL counts, especially about going back to Greece to have children. It would appear that you have quite a bit of venom in your veins which will one day cause them to burst and poison your system. "My parents WERE German but i am not"! Must be the joke of the century. An apple falling off the apple tree, is still called an apple!!! The only reason one would deny his/her roots is because they are ashamed........

[@bigears4426]

HELLENICPRIDE100 you may think what you like , i have german heritage but I'm australia . My ancestry has french , russian , german , and lots more so that makes me a mongrel (hybrid vigour). I can trace one line back to the year 1100 in germany and they walked there so you can be many things or nationalities, you can become something else

[@HELLENICPRIDE100]

@@bigears4426 " i have german heritage " ......your words, exactly. Not "my parents were German and i am not". I WILL think what i like.....that is the fortunate part about living in Australia.....FREEDOM! That is something my ancestors fought and died for over many thousands of years, when others took it away from them. I need not mention ethnicities.......Enjoy the rest of your day.....