The equivalent of a ghetto in America. A mission is a word Indigenous people use to describe someone's style or a somewhere of low economical standards nowadays. Missions originally was an area where European convicts or settlers as you will, forcefully relocated Aboriginal people from the Stolen Generation too all over Australia, separating them from their tribes and loved ones. Now it is used as slang by us mob on the same way as the word ghetto is in the media.
"That poxy dog is so mission"
"On the holidays I'm going mission to see my grandmother"
"Propa mission jalbu that one"
"Them shoes look mission"
"On the holidays I'm going mission to see my grandmother"
"Propa mission jalbu that one"
"Them shoes look mission"
by Guugu Yimithirr Jalbu December 04, 2022