Comments by "JamesT" (@Parawingdelta2) on "" video.

In 2019, my daughter serving in the Royal Australian Air Force was deployed to the Middle East. She asked me to fly from Queensland to New South Wales to look after her kids while she was away. The kids' day care centre was on her RAAF base and as a result I had to get clearance to drop them off and pick them up. Because I still had British citizenship (despite serving in the Australian army), an Armenian born security guard with an accent pronounced to the edge of illegibility, labelled me as a foreign visitor. Something seriously wrong there.
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@Dont_Believe_them Actually to be fair, he was a 'nationalised' Australian and I was the foreigner. When I first arrived in Australia in 1970, Australians and British nationals had the same status in being 'British Subjects'. That changed in 1984 which made British citizens residing in Australia, foreigners.
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@Dont_Believe_them No just a sense of a lost entitlement that we had as a result of British nationals having a sort of DeFacto dual citizenship when permanently residing in Australia. I'm not aware that I harbour any sub-conscious racist views although I probably have difficulty in being labelled a 'foreigner' when it wasn't the case when I first arrived. The security guard was actually Armenian which coincidently is the family heritage of my son in law (also RAAF) who I was assisting in helping with the kids. Anyway, after fifty two years of permanent residency, I've fixed the problem and become an Australian citizen. Interestingly, in the citizenship ceremony I had to make a 'Pledge of Allegiance', which I had already made in 1970 when I joined the Army Reserve! I guess they forgot!
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@Trooper_blue09 With all due respect, I think you've overestimated my emotional state.
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