This video is hilarious 😂 There are definite cultural differences between Anglo Aussies and 'wogs' (Greek/Italian/Lebanese-born immigrants and their Aussie-born descendants). Mostly these days we all just accept each other and get along fine 😊
I am Aussie and grew up in an area mostly populated by Italian, Greek, Macedonian and Croatian families. This is hilarious. 😅 Also we were called "Skips". Check out Acropolis Now and a character called Effie.
My family for years have spent Christmas with my friends who are Italian. It starts with lasagna and the food continues from there for the next 3 hours.
As a person that went to high school with wogs and spent the Christmas period with them, this is 100% true! Worse…. When you visit and you’re pregnant. You’ve never been fed so much food in your life, and on top of that sent home with a doggy bag. A doggy bag is the leftovers of your food for you to finish at home .
Aussie here 🇦🇺 …. So a “wog” is an Italian, Greek or Lebanese immigrant to Australia and used to be a derogatory term in the 1950s to 70s. But we have since embraced them as our own, especially their food with COFFEE, pasta, all things lamb, baklava, kebabs and gourmet ice cream/gelato having conquered our nation by stealth (just for starters). Wog is now a term of endearment if used at all. They are just Aussies now. This shift perhaps began with the comedy series - around the 70s and 80s - “Wogs out of Work” where they reclaimed the term, sent themselves up, and made us all “piss ourselves laughing”.
Broadly-speaking, in Australia the term Wog refers to someone of southern European origin. The most common application could be to people of Greek or Macedonian heritage but it can also apply to people of south Italian origin or people with origins in the western Mediterranean (Lebanon for example). Originally a derogatory term, it has been embraced by some people, particularly people of Greek origin.
@@0pieamii Are you disputing what the term Wog means or what exactly? What does when and why it was first used have to do with how it used today? What is your point?
Mate, "wogs" used to be Greek, Italian and Yugoslav. Now its a broader term encompassing more people. The breakup of Yugoslavia into smaller countries doesn't change their fate. But now Lebanese and Assyrians have been added to the list. I think its basically anyone who speaks like these blokes. The term "wog" does not include any type of Asians. Not subcontinentals, Philos, Chinese or Vietnamese.
The term wogs came into existence after the imigration of the 1950. There was a classification of a worker with a title, Worker On Government Subsidies. WOGS.
The Anglo Christmas is very organised and food is allocated where with wogs it’s usually enough food to feed 3 to 4 times the amount of people who attend. Got to love foodcomas 😂 and it’s not polite to say no to seconds and thirds!
Wogs generally refer to people from Southern Europe and the Middle East. Their descendants have appropriated what used to be a derogatory term and have claimed it as their own and it is now a term of pride for them. There have been several famous tv comedy shows based on Wog identity. I have Wog relatives and friends and love them, like most Australians.
Sorry that's your opinion. Many early greek and Italians were embarrassed to be called thi, prior to the wog boy revolution... But they didn't dare speak out.
My family didn't celebrate Christmas but was somewhere in the middle, probably more toward the wog side lol. Coming from a lower socio-economic Slavic-Australian background I definitely remember seeing Anglo-Aussie families and recognising the cultural differences. The emphasis on hard work in immigrant families is something I definitely identify with also.
Not sure where the references come from, but In my Aussie family. we get blind drunk for two or three days, then do the same new years. I guess there are up tight families like that around, but we don't know them from a bar of soap.
If you want to have a good laugh at stereotype Aussie bogans, watch Housos. It’s comedy but very true to life. Also Australia’s answer to Ali G is worth a listen. It’s audio only because it’s all prank calls but hilarious. The comedian is known as Guido Hatzis, an Aussie pretending to be a wog.
Hi MSTV, thankU so much for reacting to Wogboys, they are fantastic guys with a good sense of humour so please do more reaction to Wogboys. Also please react to Chris Lilley (Summer Heights high) series, Chris plays a 15 year old Tongan boy who moves to Australia and goes to a special Ed class bc he has learning difficulties. It's just as funny as Wogboys, so do yourself a favour and us and react to Chris Lilleys Summer Heights high you won't regret it thank you.
Originally , the term "wog", had nothing to do with Greek or Italian immigrants but was applied to Chinese immigrants during the gold rush era in Australia .Wog was a term for Chinese immigrants who dressed like Westerners, Western Oriental Gentlemen . It came from a period of Australian history dominated by The White Australia policy so the term wog originally had racist connotations .The meaning of the term wog has a very different meaning in modern Australia .
Just to add on to your comment. In the 1950's & 1960's there was an influx of immigrants from South Eastern Europe, Western Middle East & Mediterranean North Africa. These immigrants started to be called 'Wogs' as a racial slur. The immigrants actually picked up the term & used it for themselves. This was mainly in the Lygon Street, Carlton area. Now the term is not really used by the majority of Aussies, except for the so called 'Wogs'.
@@kisamehoshigaki09 Then you actually need to read some Australian history written and taught at major Australian universities by people like Michael Rowe .Jeffrey Blainey ect ,instead of believing a platform like Wikipedia that anyone can write and edit without historically proven and based evidence .
@@optimusvalerius8824 The facts indicate that the term was probably not even of Australian but rather British origin and if you knew anything about Australian history you'd know that there's no evidence whatsoever to indicate the term was even in use during the Gold Rush at all. The theory you're trying to push literally doesn't even align chronologically as the Chinese migration during the Gold Rush occurred principally from 1848-1861 and there is no record of the term "wog" in the modern lexicon until the 1920's which comes from a British source, not even an Australian one. I don't need the opinion of an Australian historian to know that those dates don't match up, especially considering the fact that I have a degree in history, myself, from one of the best tertiary institutions (arguably the best, according to most international ranking systems) in Australia. Whilst the theory you're positing is certainly possible it isn't chronologically supported.
It always annoys me when people assume Anglo Aussie families are all like The Brady Bunch or something. Like some Aussie kids weren't also brought up with tough love. Like some Aussie parents weren't very strict and old school, either. It's all just stereotyping. Which ironically seems to be fine and acceptable when it's making fun of Aussies. But heaven forbid it goes the other way. There are plenty of "wog" families nowadays who don't behave this way. Just as there are plenty of Aussie families (once colloquially referred to as "skips" by "wogs"), that are far from showing the sweetness and light. Anyways, that's my 2 cents worth on the topic.
Dating back to before the 50s, the term "Wog" originally referred to immigrants, and descendants of immigrants, of southern European (mostly Mediterranean) descent. Originally Greek, Italian, Slavic, Maltese descent but also Lebanese in more recent times. Other "Wog" TV entertainment includes Acropolis Now and Fat Pizza
WOG generally refers to Greeks and Italians who came in waves to Australia at the conclusion of WWII. The acronym expanded actually means 'Western Oriental Gentleman' but was unfortunately coopeted by the far more bigoted nation we ONCE were and used as a term of slander. The funny thing is that the Greeks and Italians adopted the term and became every bit what Australia was taking the piss out of them for (hence what you see in these vids). Over time it has become a word that you would never use to refer to the Greeks and Italians, to a term adopted by the Greeks and Italians to refer to the worst of their people in Australia. The ones who refuse to adopt anything Australian, who insist on living an overblown form of what they perceive their homeland to be (even though their respective home lands have changed dramatically since WWII and they are at least four generations in). These guys are essentially taking the piss out of...well... the super WOG and equally the full bogan Aussies (which is also a piss take). FYI, the integration of Greeks and Italians into Australian society was a huge success and now they are seen as an essential part of Australian culture in every way, hence being able to make vids like this and have us all laughing at each other together.
wogs used to be derogatory, like in UK, but several cultures from Mediterranean area, have adopted the term as a badge of honour here and rarely used to in a derogatory way these days
A little surprised they didnt say the Difference between Wogs and Skips Christmas . Ive been called a Skip heaps , usually by someone born here of Italian or Mediterranean heritage . Its not a slur . Its short for Skippy the bush Kangaroo. Skippy was an iconic Australian TV show .
back in the day it may have been where you were but not in western sydney when the "wogs" called the aussie girls skippy they were not being nice - it was very derogatory and basiclly saying "skippys" were sluts
Hate the 'wog' term. Its bad enough when greeks and Italians say "we embrace it". Not all of us do... ...but it's even worse when anglo saxons say, its a "term of endearment"... Sorry, its actually not. In today's society, most ethnic groups do not accept name calling, so why do some still think its ok to refer to Mediterranean migrants as wogs? Its condescending Those that lived it, before comedians made it funny, were embarrassed and hurt by it... and for fear of losing their jobs or being ostracized, put up with it and remember this time of their lives unhappily. This is my opinion.. At the end of the day, its still putting a tag on someone because of their ethnicity.... Last time i checked this was innapropriate. So im not sure why so many still glamourise this term.
Oh yes Chrissy in Oz. We have a rep for overindulging in everything I’m afraid. EVERYTHING😂😂🤪🤪
Who does? Aussies or wogs?
This video is hilarious 😂 There are definite cultural differences between Anglo Aussies and 'wogs' (Greek/Italian/Lebanese-born immigrants and their Aussie-born descendants). Mostly these days we all just accept each other and get along fine 😊
Kinda right but let’s don’t fit into the wog category.
Usually Mediterranean around Greece Italy Malta etc.
Can't forget Balkans
My parents used to make my sister & I pull out the weeds inbetween the pavers. I hated it.
Hahaha. Merry Christmas!
I am Aussie and grew up in an area mostly populated by Italian, Greek, Macedonian and Croatian families. This is hilarious. 😅 Also we were called "Skips". Check out Acropolis Now and a character called Effie.
Effie is the best
My family for years have spent Christmas with my friends who are Italian. It starts with lasagna and the food continues from there for the next 3 hours.
As a person that went to high school with wogs and spent the Christmas period with them, this is 100% true!
Worse…. When you visit and you’re pregnant.
You’ve never been fed so much food in your life, and on top of that sent home with a doggy bag.
A doggy bag is the leftovers of your food for you to finish at home .
@@HGCUPCAKES that doggy bag will feed your family for the next week plus veggies and fruit from their garden no matter how small it is.
Aussie here 🇦🇺 …. So a “wog” is an Italian, Greek or Lebanese immigrant to Australia and used to be a derogatory term in the 1950s to 70s. But we have since embraced them as our own, especially their food with COFFEE, pasta, all things lamb, baklava, kebabs and gourmet ice cream/gelato having conquered our nation by stealth (just for starters). Wog is now a term of endearment if used at all. They are just Aussies now. This shift perhaps began with the comedy series - around the 70s and 80s - “Wogs out of Work” where they reclaimed the term, sent themselves up, and made us all “piss ourselves laughing”.
PS. Check out “Con the Fruiterer”. Hysterical.
I get so much joy watching your reaction. 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
I think the boys went to Chenelle's Institute of Buteay acting school 😂 my wordy lordy yes
Broadly-speaking, in Australia the term Wog refers to someone of southern European origin. The most common application could be to people of Greek or Macedonian heritage but it can also apply to people of south Italian origin or people with origins in the western Mediterranean (Lebanon for example). Originally a derogatory term, it has been embraced by some people, particularly people of Greek origin.
@@0pieamiihistorical evidence?
@@0pieamii confusing why you are demanding an academic essay on this. Sir, this is a Wendy's.
@@0pieamii Are you disputing what the term Wog means or what exactly? What does when and why it was first used have to do with how it used today? What is your point?
Mate, "wogs" used to be Greek, Italian and Yugoslav. Now its a broader term encompassing more people. The breakup of Yugoslavia into smaller countries doesn't change their fate. But now Lebanese and Assyrians have been added to the list. I think its basically anyone who speaks like these blokes.
The term "wog" does not include any type of Asians. Not subcontinentals, Philos, Chinese or Vietnamese.
The term wogs came into existence after the imigration of the 1950. There was a classification of a worker with a title, Worker On Government Subsidies. WOGS.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. A prosperous new year.🎅🏻🌲🎉🎊🍺🎁🥳
The Anglo Christmas is very organised and food is allocated where with wogs it’s usually enough food to feed 3 to 4 times the amount of people who attend. Got to love foodcomas 😂 and it’s not polite to say no to seconds and thirds!
That's a proper Christmas.
Wogs generally refer to people from Southern Europe and the Middle East. Their descendants have appropriated what used to be a derogatory term and have claimed it as their own and it is now a term of pride for them. There have been several famous tv comedy shows based on Wog identity. I have Wog relatives and friends and love them, like most Australians.
Prince Phillip once quipped: "the wogs begin at Calais."
Greeks and Italians mostly are referred to as wogs. They’ve adopted and embraced it for most part. Hard working immigrants
Yes and I am Greek woglet😂 I love the term most Greeks I know take no offence being called “wogs”!
Sorry that's your opinion. Many early greek and Italians were embarrassed to be called thi, prior to the wog boy revolution... But they didn't dare speak out.
Please keep making more😂😂😂 😊
My family didn't celebrate Christmas but was somewhere in the middle, probably more toward the wog side lol.
Coming from a lower socio-economic Slavic-Australian background I definitely remember seeing Anglo-Aussie families and recognising the cultural differences. The emphasis on hard work in immigrant families is something I definitely identify with also.
Neither of these represents my actual family Christmas, but I've seen both these types of family Christmas' here before! Hilarious! 👍
Not sure where the references come from, but In my Aussie family. we get blind drunk for two or three days, then do the same new years. I guess there are up tight families like that around, but we don't know them from a bar of soap.
You should watch of superwog worked in an airplane, love the videos, keep it up mate 👍💪
If you want to have a good laugh at stereotype Aussie bogans, watch Housos. It’s comedy but very true to life. Also Australia’s answer to Ali G is worth a listen. It’s audio only because it’s all prank calls but hilarious. The comedian is known as Guido Hatzis, an Aussie pretending to be a wog.
WOG actually refers to the gold rush period ,it is short for WESTERN ORIENTAL GENTLEMEN (ASIANS)
you should also check out WA Hon David Templeman MLA Annual Song 2023 and others
Hi MSTV, thankU so much for reacting to Wogboys, they are fantastic guys with a good sense of humour so please do more reaction to Wogboys. Also please react to Chris Lilley (Summer Heights high) series, Chris plays a 15 year old Tongan boy who moves to Australia and goes to a special Ed class bc he has learning difficulties. It's just as funny as Wogboys, so do yourself a favour and us and react to Chris Lilleys Summer Heights high you won't regret it thank you.
💯 Agree. Love it !
Originally , the term "wog", had nothing to do with Greek or Italian immigrants but was applied to Chinese immigrants during the gold rush era in Australia .Wog was a term for Chinese immigrants who dressed like Westerners, Western Oriental Gentlemen . It came from a period of Australian history dominated by The White Australia policy so the term wog originally had racist connotations .The meaning of the term wog has a very different meaning in modern Australia .
Just to add on to your comment. In the 1950's & 1960's there was an influx of immigrants from South Eastern Europe, Western Middle East & Mediterranean North Africa. These immigrants started to be called 'Wogs' as a racial slur. The immigrants actually picked up the term & used it for themselves. This was mainly in the Lygon Street, Carlton area. Now the term is not really used by the majority of Aussies, except for the so called 'Wogs'.
This is just false LOL.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wog
@@kisamehoshigaki09 Then you actually need to read some Australian history written and taught at major Australian universities by people like Michael Rowe .Jeffrey Blainey ect ,instead of believing a platform like Wikipedia that anyone can write and edit without historically proven and based evidence .
@@kisamehoshigaki09 Ok which part is incorrect? The whole lot or just parts? Is it just mine or
@optimusvalerius8824 I'm just curious to know?
@@optimusvalerius8824 The facts indicate that the term was probably not even of Australian but rather British origin and if you knew anything about Australian history you'd know that there's no evidence whatsoever to indicate the term was even in use during the Gold Rush at all.
The theory you're trying to push literally doesn't even align chronologically as the Chinese migration during the Gold Rush occurred principally from 1848-1861 and there is no record of the term "wog" in the modern lexicon until the 1920's which comes from a British source, not even an Australian one.
I don't need the opinion of an Australian historian to know that those dates don't match up, especially considering the fact that I have a degree in history, myself, from one of the best tertiary institutions (arguably the best, according to most international ranking systems) in Australia.
Whilst the theory you're positing is certainly possible it isn't chronologically supported.
Love it. Yep accurate descriptions & piss funny too! Good onya Matt
x
Linda (LindyLu from Oz
You need to see Swift and Shift Couriers Fat Pizza and Housos then you will get a laugh
Have a look at Chris Lilley, if you can. He's probably banned these days.
You need t get onto SushiMango!!
It always annoys me when people assume Anglo Aussie families are all like The Brady Bunch or something.
Like some Aussie kids weren't also brought up with tough love.
Like some Aussie parents weren't very strict and old school, either.
It's all just stereotyping.
Which ironically seems to be fine and acceptable when it's making fun of Aussies. But heaven forbid it goes the other way.
There are plenty of "wog" families nowadays who don't behave this way.
Just as there are plenty of Aussie families (once colloquially referred to as "skips" by "wogs"), that are far from showing the sweetness and light.
Anyways, that's my 2 cents worth on the topic.
Dating back to before the 50s, the term "Wog" originally referred to immigrants, and descendants of immigrants, of southern European (mostly Mediterranean) descent. Originally Greek, Italian, Slavic, Maltese descent but also Lebanese in more recent times. Other "Wog" TV entertainment includes Acropolis Now and Fat Pizza
I hope you and your family had an awesome Christmas and all the best for 2924 and looking forward to heaps of great vids.
WOG generally refers to Greeks and Italians who came in waves to Australia at the conclusion of WWII. The acronym expanded actually means 'Western Oriental Gentleman' but was unfortunately coopeted by the far more bigoted nation we ONCE were and used as a term of slander. The funny thing is that the Greeks and Italians adopted the term and became every bit what Australia was taking the piss out of them for (hence what you see in these vids).
Over time it has become a word that you would never use to refer to the Greeks and Italians, to a term adopted by the Greeks and Italians to refer to the worst of their people in Australia. The ones who refuse to adopt anything Australian, who insist on living an overblown form of what they perceive their homeland to be (even though their respective home lands have changed dramatically since WWII and they are at least four generations in).
These guys are essentially taking the piss out of...well... the super WOG and equally the full bogan Aussies (which is also a piss take).
FYI, the integration of Greeks and Italians into Australian society was a huge success and now they are seen as an essential part of Australian culture in every way, hence being able to make vids like this and have us all laughing at each other together.
Wogs are Greeks Turks Italians lebs etc
i'm am aussie and this is the dumbest not funny stuff but I just watch it to hear your laugh ☺😂🤣😂😅🤣🤡
wogs used to be derogatory, like in UK, but several cultures from Mediterranean area, have adopted the term as a badge of honour here and rarely used to in a derogatory way these days
also, if you want to see how they got famous, look up "Fat Pizza" and "Houso's"
@@siryogiwanLoved Fat Pizza ohmahgaaawwwddd 😂
A little surprised they didnt say the Difference between Wogs and Skips Christmas . Ive been called a Skip heaps , usually by someone born here of Italian or Mediterranean heritage . Its not a slur . Its short for Skippy the bush Kangaroo. Skippy was an iconic Australian TV show .
back in the day it may have been where you were but not in western sydney when the "wogs" called the aussie girls skippy they were not being nice - it was very derogatory and basiclly saying "skippys" were sluts
Hate the 'wog' term.
Its bad enough when greeks and Italians say "we embrace it". Not all of us do...
...but it's even worse when anglo saxons say, its a "term of endearment"... Sorry, its actually not.
In today's society, most ethnic groups do not accept name calling, so why do some still think its ok to refer to Mediterranean migrants as wogs? Its condescending
Those that lived it, before comedians made it funny, were embarrassed and hurt by it... and for fear of losing their jobs or being ostracized, put up with it and remember this time of their lives unhappily.
This is my opinion..
At the end of the day, its still putting a tag on someone because of their ethnicity.... Last time i checked this was innapropriate. So im not sure why so many still glamourise this term.
Not sure what's so funny. This is a documentary.
😂😂😂
Wog started off as western oriental gentleman and has turned into a somewhat derogatory word .
Yes a W*G is a person from the Western Origin Group