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Georgia and Ukraine- some other perspectives.
What the other side is saying
Intro
4 months ago I returned to Australia after over 15 years living in Uzbekistan, Russia, Turkiye, Russia again and finally Georgia. As a result, I accumulated a vast amount of friends with different viewpoints to my own and with different cultural bias, as well as having to acknowledge my own western cultural bias too.
Without endorising anything being said below in the article, it is still instructive to try and understand what other perspectives are out there.
The Serbian Uber driver in Australia
Now, I spent my early childhood either in England or in Sydney. With Sydney I went to primary school in the western suburbs at Quakers Hill. Our school had a significant Maltese population-indeed you could study the language there- but also plenty of Greeks, Italians and people from the Balkans. My first and horrendous High School was Parramatta High. I learnt to run, I learnt to fight and I learnt to swear in probably 17 different languages. Probably why I became a linguist, honestly.
We had classmates from every Asian country and the subcontinent, Lebanese aplenty, Greeks again and lots of Serbs and Croats.
