mantra wrote on Mar 6
th, 2017 at 5:03am:
That could be the case, but I think generally generations x, y and z have been indoctrinated into being politically correct from their first day in kindergarten.
Realistically, the horse has long since bolted, and the government has long since declared Australia to be a patchwork quilt of many immigrant nations in which the Anglo component is to be frowned upon as 'racist' and having descended from genocidal Early Settlers.
The little blonde-haired, blue-eyed, dinki di Aussies in the Child Care Centres are the Spawn of the Devil according to the 'narrative' the Left would have us believe, and this theme is picked up by the immigrant kids as they grow older and learn about the Burden of Guilt that each un-hyphenated Australian is obliged to carry throughout life in his own homeland like a crucifix needing to be dragged on the back to Calvary.
The ethnics LOVE this guilt-tripping scenario of the British descendants, with its penance, humiliation, and guilty associations. I used to get a few 'serves' from them in the workplace.
Needless to say, Rudd's Sorry Day was exclusively a moral crucifixion of Anglo-Australians to which millions of immigrants were a finger-wagging audience to, with Rudd failing to remind them that they too had their own guilty past. I once worked with all of nine post-war immigrant nationalities that were part of the axis forces which rallied behind Hitler, but no cathartic confessions of guilt and remorse was ever asked of them by our government.
No Sorry Day from these collaborative immigrants to the descendants and still-living who fought against Hitler's ambitions for tyranny and dictatorship.
Guilt and self-flagellation is only reserved for those of British background, as to cite others for their own historic national guilt would raise screams of "Racism!" from our own Left.
mantra wrote on Mar 6
th, 2017 at 5:03am:
What I do find annoying is when young adults who are first or second generation Australians continually refer to themselves as being Lebanese, Greek etc.
The hyphenations were bound to happen, and for me personally I prefer that they say what they honestly feel their true identity is rather than give us the PC version and call themselves a generic 'Australian'. To all of these 'ethnics' the term 'Australian' essentially refers to Aussies of British ancestry - the Cronulla mob - with which they do not identify.
Ajax here is 'Greek', and John Smith is 'Italian', but depending on where they are they will declare themselves to be either 'Australian' .. or part of their 'Greek' and 'Italian' community.
It's the same in America. The surnames give the game away as from where they originate. Mr. Stanislav Brzenczyszczykiewicz will have a hard time convincing his neighbours that he has no traces left of sympathy and identity with Poland. He probably has Chopin playing quietly in the background when he's at home, or perhaps Paderewski (who my mother saw giving a concert in Paris before the war). But I digress.
mantra wrote on Mar 6
th, 2017 at 5:03am:
When Israel attacked Lebanon in 2006 - the Australian Jews headed to Israel to give support to their army and the Lebanese did the same for their military. If they didn't have dual passports this wouldn't have happened.
The fault was the government's in not imposing a deportation penalty upon these dual-citizen passport holders, something that would have been quite legal with no need for new laws to be brought in. Political funk about the chances for re-election was the guilty party here.
mantra wrote on Mar 6
th, 2017 at 5:03am:
If we're unfortunate to ever experience a WWIII - a good proportion of the population would head back to the nation of their culture to take up arms regardless of whether it was an ally of ours or not.
I agree. It comes with indiscriminate mass immigration and Australia's official policy of pandering to immigrant communities' foreign identity under the 'Multicultural Australia' imperative.
Chickens coming home to roost.