This post or the discussion of whether the notion of being un-Australian has validity? I can't argue with the former, if that's your opinion, but I think the latter is worth discussing, especially when one of the references I cited refers to "Men who like cats, bosses who block internet access to footy tipping websites...anyone who refuses to eat lamb or support Lleyton Hewitt...Striking workers, utes that can't do burn-outs, broadcasting the Ashes on pay TV, paying for beach access or for someone to clean your house..." and so on. Light-heartedly or otherwise, that these are being connected with a sense of national disengagement, as though they're really important, bothers and unnerves me. Letting the matter be raised and not addressed, I reckon, is to let the John Howards have their way. I'd hate that.
Note, just for the record, that my post was about "reasons to call" myself un-Australian. I know that the only way to truly become un-Australian would be to revoke my citizenship, and I have no desire to do that. Vive la difference--as long as la difference is not just allowed, but acknowledged as a fundamental part of a healthy society.
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Date: 2006-11-27 04:31 am (UTC)This post or the discussion of whether the notion of being un-Australian has validity? I can't argue with the former, if that's your opinion, but I think the latter is worth discussing, especially when one of the references I cited refers to "Men who like cats, bosses who block internet access to footy tipping websites...anyone who refuses to eat lamb or support Lleyton Hewitt...Striking workers, utes that can't do burn-outs, broadcasting the Ashes on pay TV, paying for beach access or for someone to clean your house..." and so on. Light-heartedly or otherwise, that these are being connected with a sense of national disengagement, as though they're really important, bothers and unnerves me. Letting the matter be raised and not addressed, I reckon, is to let the John Howards have their way. I'd hate that.
Note, just for the record, that my post was about "reasons to call" myself un-Australian. I know that the only way to truly become un-Australian would be to revoke my citizenship, and I have no desire to do that. Vive la difference--as long as la difference is not just allowed, but acknowledged as a fundamental part of a healthy society.