if they saw the issue that was raised today and became prevalent on facebook... ANZAC day being cancelled. immigrants saying it is insensitive. those immigrants not accepting that we can celebrate our glorious dead. them having a problem with us remembering the brave men and women who fought in wars.
yep. my grandparents would have an issue with it i think. Granddad, who i never met, was a serviceman and, from all reports a wonderful husband and father. his wife, my nanna, was the most generous, amazing caring woman i think i ever met.
and if they saw the way people were talking about immigrants and blowing this issue totally out of proportion in a rapid fire of aussie pride and bogan rights, i think they would be very disappointed with how Australia see issues such as this.
Here is a newsflash for you. ANZAC Day is not going to be cancelled. it will never be cancelled. i have heard this about Christmas and Easter too! for all those secular people out there i think you still get your four day weekend in a couple of weeks and i am pretty sure on december 25th you woke up to presents. and it is quite funny, in your secular means, you all care so much about a religious holiday.
i see why ANZAC day is a more sensitive issue. war is a despicable thing and Australians, ever since WW1 have been celebrated for their bravery and selflessness. i am proud to be an australian and so proud of the men and women who went out to bat for future generations and protected the nations. one thing strikes me though. soldiers do not choose to go to war. they follow instructions from those higher up then them. and war has been something of an economic pursuit for a very long time. Germany started WW2 on the back of a dwindling economy and USA and Japan have both been able to reap huge economic benefits from war. i needn't mention the current war on oir... or terror or whatever it is... my point is, soliders all believe they are doing the right thing. that's right, even the ones on the opposite side to us. the germans, turks, japanese, soviets, etc etc! everyone we have ever fought against all thought they were doing the right thing by their people and their country and, probably, the world! even today, what we call terrorists refer to themselves as freedom fighters!
Today, if you listen to facebook, we had a whole bunch of people complain to our prime minister and say, "ANZAC Day needs to be scrapped. we are all immigrants, mostly muslims and we don't like it." did this actually happen? of course not. in fact, i found nothing even mentioning Anzac Day in the paper today... i had to go to the Daily Telegraph to find anything about it at all!! turns out the words "culturally sensitive" were used. in the bogan language, this term can often lead to a cronulla riot. however, i believe all this means is that immigrants would like the opportunity for them to honour their own dead. Australia are renowned as a laid back place full of laid back people. most of you probably do not realise that when the Japanese prime minister visited the Australian War Memorial in Canberra about a decade ago he was moved to tears when he saw the shrine to the Japanese midget submarine bombers who invaded Sydney Harbour. yep. it is there. these people lost their lives and we are commemorating it. who has been to complain? feels offended? or now is going to use the fireworks you buy in canberra to blow the place up?
surely this is all that people from different cultures really want. and surely this will not be any issue for ANY australian. if anything it would provide an excellent opportunity to further assimilate people from other cultures. we are all Australians and we all deserve the right to remember our heroes from war.
long story short. people need to do some reading. people need to investigate. going off the telegraph, a current affair or someone else's facebook is never ever going to teach you anything. i know a lot of you only value ANZAC day for the day off, two up and excuse to get royally drunk, but perhaps, if anything, this has made you think a little bit more about the meaning of the day.
i know media control a lot of what you think and i wish an ethnic couple would go on my kitchen rules or something to give you all a bit of tolerance. but don't lose sleep. this will be forgotten by the time ANZAC day comes along. it has just allowed people to show themselves are severely racist and bigoted. racism looks and sounds so ugly. does not present you in a good light and makes people question your intelligence. i wish people would practice what they preach and refuse to use products, buy things or communicate with, anyone of ANY other descent or culture. you'd starve or something before too long and Australia would be better off.
on another topic. i hate the lack of respect shown to our Prime Minister. Julia Gillard has to suffer from jeers of slut, whore, bitch etc. and i am not too sure why. i don't like her dress sense and i think she has an annoying voice. i notice she has red hair and is in a de-facto relationship. but i also see that she is governing a pretty efficient and successful party pretty much against all odds. i understand it is fashionable to dislike whoever is in power but if you are going to have an opinion, it would be so much better if it was based on some sort of policy or fact.
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