Old Med migrants speaking the language are literally dying out and with them a certain way of life that, from my understanding, was once very prevalent in Melbourne. Newer generations of migrants from those areas are very different, as are the descendants of the old migrants. Wouldn’t expect most of them to be primarily monolingual in an Italian language, and very different education levels/attitudes/life experiences
Old Med migrants speaking the language are literally dying out and with them a certain way of life that, from my understanding, was once very prevalent in Melbourne. Newer generations of migrants from those areas are very different, as are the descendants of the old migrants. Wouldn’t expect most of them to be primarily monolingual in an Italian language, and very different education levels/attitudes/life experiences
Oh I see the 1950’s italian crew.
It’s quite incredible a fair few managed to remain fairly insular language-wise.