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Originally Posted by Enchilada
As adults, we have the important responsibility towards the next generation. Who we are and what we think define us as Australians, Our identity must be continued else all we come is another just sub-set of another foreign country.
I sincerely question the degree which we accept influences beyond our shores. For the younger generation, who are often so impressionable, I find they think American culture and lifestyle is better than our own, when in truth is American culture and lifestyle is just different.
After reading so of the responses here, obviously some see this duty as trivial, but in my view, passing on our own cultural values is what makes us unique.
The easy path is to just accept everything thrown your way is OK. The really hard part is to know when to take a stand say this is who I am and how my society is or will be.
Believe in the wattle and the country we live in, not superficial nonsense dreamt up in some foreign place that has little do with us.
Comment : I might be a cranky ol' bugger, but I'd rather be that than to see my culture be absorbed by another.*
Recommend , if you haven't seen it, the two movies brilliant photographic masterpieces Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi, meaning to the Hopi Indians Life Out of Balance and Life in Transformation, respectively. These films speaks volumes about destruction of cultures and the evils of societies when they are being wholly consumed. |
Hey where do you live? I'd love to egg you next year.
"Believe in the wattle" OMG That's your cultural fall back?
How 'bout respecting the 50,000 years worth of culture already existant here, prior to our invasion. I would assume by your patriotic nature, your ancestors arrived on the first convict ships, as mine? What specific Australiana cultures have they developed, that we can be proud of / celebrate? That is apart from "the wattle"
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