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Postmodern Trendoid III Gold Member Offline Posts: 10300 Gender:	Re: Call to scrap citizenship test - 'too hard' Reply #255 - Nov 8^th, 2012 at 9:36am That's traditional Aboriginal law, not Australian law.
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greggerypeccary Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 153477 Gender:	Re: Call to scrap citizenship test - 'too hard' Reply #256 - Nov 8^th, 2012 at 9:38am Postmodern Trendoid III wrote on Nov 8^th, 2012 at 9:36am: That's traditional Aboriginal law, not Australian law. I've got some news for you: it's traditional AUSTRALIAN Aboriginal law. It most certainly is "an Australian law". You asked, and you received.
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Reply #257 - Nov 8^th, 2012 at 9:44am

Australia is a name given to this continent by Matthew Flinders. Australia inherited British law. Aboriginals had no such name for the continent, neither did they have anything like British law. Spearing people in the leg is a tribal traditional that has nothing to do with the traditions we inherited from the British. Whatever the Aboriginals want to call spearing people, it's not Australian law.

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Reply #258 - Nov 8^th, 2012 at 9:45am

Postmodern Trendoid III wrote on Nov 8^th, 2012 at 9:44am:

Australia is a name given to this continent by Matthew Flinders. Australia inherited British law. Aboriginals had no such name for the continent, neither did they have anything like British law. Spearing people in the leg is a tribal traditional that has nothing to do with the traditions we inherited from the British. Whatever the Aboriginals want to call spearing people, it's not Australian law.

It is "an Australian law".

You asked, you received.

Live with it.

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Postmodern Trendoid III Gold Member Offline Posts: 10300 Gender:	Re: Call to scrap citizenship test - 'too hard' Reply #259 - Nov 8^th, 2012 at 9:49am Just repeating the same thing doesn't make you any more right than the first time. Live with it.
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Reply #260 - Nov 8^th, 2012 at 10:02am

Postmodern Trendoid III wrote on Nov 8^th, 2012 at 9:49am:

Just repeating the same thing doesn't make you any more right than the first time. Live with it.

You asked and you received.

I provided you with "an Australian law".

If you meant "Australian Law", perhaps you should have said so in the first place.

In the future if you're not going to like the answer, I suggest you refrain from asking the question. Or, better still, ask the correct question in the first place.

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Quantum Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3373	Re: Call to scrap citizenship test - 'too hard' Reply #261 - Nov 8^th, 2012 at 10:09am I hear-by declare a new law. From now on, the user greggerypeccary must be refereed to as a trolling moron at the beginning of each and every reply directed to him. As I am Australian, and this is a law, referring to greggerypeccary as a trolling moron is therefore an Australian Law.
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Sir Spot of Borg Gold Member Offline WE ARE BORG Posts: 26588 Australia	Re: Call to scrap citizenship test - 'too hard' Reply #262 - Nov 8^th, 2012 at 10:12am Awwww quantum disagrees with greggorypeccory . . . . poor quantum has to lash out . . . . SOB
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Reply #263 - Nov 8^th, 2012 at 10:42am

The name in English doesn't matter. Australia was there before it is called Australia.

Actually the name "China" is not given by Chinese. China is a name called in English only. In Chinese, it is called 中国 (Zhong Guo) Can you say China is an English country?

Australia is a land with the people living there no matter the name.

Postmodern Trendoid III wrote on Nov 8^th, 2012 at 9:44am:

Australia is a name given to this continent by Matthew Flinders. Australia inherited British law. Aboriginals had no such name for the continent, neither did they have anything like British law. Spearing people in the leg is a tribal traditional that has nothing to do with the traditions we inherited from the British. Whatever the Aboriginals want to call spearing people, it's not Australian law.

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Reply #264 - Nov 8^th, 2012 at 10:55am

Bowen wrote on Nov 8^th, 2012 at 10:42am:

The name in English doesn't matter. Australia was there before it is called Australia.

Actually the name "China" is not given by Chinese. China is a name called in English only. In Chinese, it is called 中国 (Zhong Guo) Can you say China is an English country?

Australia is a land with the people living there no matter the name.

You can play with words as much as you like, but words contain connotations and denotations. Australia means more than just a geographical position, it carries with it cultural definitions.
Understand that spearing people in the leg has never been part of Australian law.
Maybe you can do some homework for me, what did the Aboriginals call Australia pre-1788? There were about 2,000 different Aboriginal languages, apparently, so if you can give me 1 or 2 that would be good. Then you can also give me the connotations and denotations of those words. Then we will be able to make a distinction between European interpretations of Australia and Aboriginal ones.

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Reply #265 - Nov 8^th, 2012 at 10:59am

Bowen wrote on Nov 8^th, 2012 at 10:42am:

The name in English doesn't matter. Australia was there before it is called Australia.

Actually the name "China" is not given by Chinese. China is a name called in English only. In Chinese, it is called 中国 (Zhong Guo) Can you say China is an English country?

Australia is a land with the people living there no matter the name.

I hope your willing to take the same stance against China. After all, the land mass known as Asia was there long before China claimed its borders within it. If the nation of Australia is inseparable from the continent it inhabits, then the rest of the world including China is in a real mess.

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greggerypeccary Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 153477 Gender:	Re: Call to scrap citizenship test - 'too hard' Reply #266 - Nov 8^th, 2012 at 11:07am http://www.youryoure.com/
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Reply #267 - Nov 8^th, 2012 at 11:21am

Before you want to say something about China. Please learn some history of China.

However, though the history is different, I believe China is a land with the people living there too.

I never believe the culture of China is a pure culture of any particular part of the people. I always said, the culture of Chinese is mixed by different cultures. It is just called Chinese like the culture here is just called Australian.

BTW, I saw some guys here talk about communism in China. Don't forget that communism is from Germany which is obviously western culture. And communists made most of the violence among Chinese in the past century.

Quantum wrote on Nov 8^th, 2012 at 10:59am:

I hope your willing to take the same stance against China. After all, the land mass known as Asia was there long before China claimed its borders within it. If the nation of Australia is inseparable from the continent it inhabits, then the rest of the world including China is in a real mess.

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