SadKangaroo wrote on Apr 22
nd, 2017 at 11:07am:
Postmodern Trendoid III wrote on Apr 22
nd, 2017 at 10:54am:
Naivety or left-wing posturing? The latter I suspect.
Yet not one person has proposed an alternative view of what they consider to be our culture.
I would really like to know what others think.
But no, just silence and personal attacks.
I've tried asking nicely but it's time to put up or shut up.
Culture is an indefinable context.
its like describing pleasure, what some see as pleasurable either abhors or excites others.
Culture is like that, what some see as culture, others see as traits or weaknesses, sometimes strengths.
Australian culture is vastly different from any other on the planet.
I have traveled all over the world, seen many places, met and lived with many people.
I do not consider myself a "Cultured" person, I am just an observer.
But to me, Australian culture is definable.
Aussie culture is a "Have a go" attitude.
"Look after the mates."
"Laugh at ourselves."
We, as a race, are a mixture of many other races.
Australians are the brave who traveled from other countries to a distant and foreign land.
People who brought us wonderful food, wonderful things and who themselves became more Australian than Australians who have lived here all their lives.
They came to a land with many excesses and a people who will fight with you one minute and then buy you a beer afterward, no grudges, they contributed and became Australian.
We are an easy going lot, we take and we give generously.
We stick together, the best of Australia is always seen at the worst possible times.
A cyclone, a flood and drought and Australians come from everywhere to help, not seeking reward, just being Australian.
Australia has more volunteer organisations, giving freely, than anywhere else on earth.
When you insult us we laugh, but when provoked we fight, and we fight hard.
We are known throughout the world as amazingly effective in battle and a few Aussies have held off far more than could reasonably be expected.
We are Australians.
We are rascals, we poke authority in the eye and laugh, while at the same time respecting the law of the land.
You want a clear, definitive answer to your question, what is Australian culture?
You will never get one, its impossible.
But times are changing.
Recent arrivals are putting Australia and Australians against each other.
Some see the danger, others, as always want to see the good in everybody.
But our recent arrivals do not like us, they do not like our culture.
They refuse our laws and refuse to contribute.
They bring with them baggage, baggage that is infecting the Australian way of a fair go for all.
This new Culture of hate, political espionage and invasion is starting to take its toll on Australian culture.
I only hope it does not destroy it.
Apart from your last three paragraphs, that was actually quite good, well thought out even. Unfortunately, you allowed your Xenophobia out in those last three paragraphs. I am sure that some Indigenous Australians stood on the shores of Botany Bay and looked at the tall white sails of the First Fleet and said, "I don't like this, I just don't!" Were they right in their Xenophobia? I doubt it.
Throughout our history, Australian society has looked with suspicion on the new arrivals as they stepped off the boat/plane and said, "I don't like this, I just don't!" The Irish, the Catholics, the Italians, the Greeks, the Jugoslavs, the Indochinese, the Africans, the Muslims have all suffered from this fear of the other. It has been pointless, in the end, the natives recognised them as being just as human as them, just as deserving of respect and of course, love and intermarried with them. Opinions like yours are pointless, Valkie. They are outmoded and are proved to be disingenuous, based upon prejudice and bigotry, not reality. Time to wake up to yourself, Valkie and actually embrace change, rather than reject it. It's going to happen whether you like it or not.
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