@karliandjacko wrote:
@muppet_detector wrote:
@karliandjacko wrote:
@daydream**believer wrote:
"It's not a shirt I would buy, but if given as a gift, I would have worn it and would have never made the connection between the slogan and Muslims specifically. As I said, I interpreted the shirt as being a message for anyone who didn't like Australia, not one specific sub group of our country."
My thoughts exactly. English, Chinese, Greek, French even fellow Aussies, if you dont like it here, leave.
Why should we leave? I think we should stay and try to change what we don't like.
which infers that there is more here that you do like than dislike.
An enterprise as large as an entire country with 22 million people cannot have every attribute that suits every member of the population all of the time. But if most of the things are the way you like them, and there are opportunities to make certain aspects suit your individual needs, then go for it, otherwise - leave.
Australia is about what is best or most suitable for the greatest number of the 22 million people that choose to live here, it is not about what is best for the individual.
It infers nothing of the sort. *** Sorry, I read that infers the wrong way around ***
The only comment I made is that I don't LOVE the Aussie flag. From that other posters have taken it upon themselves to claim that I said I don't like the flag, don't like the country, hate the flag, hate the country. and whatever else takes their fancy.
I said nothing of the sort. It's none of yours or any other posters business to tell me to leave this country. It is hostile and it is uncalled for.
You don't think people have changed the country since white settlement. Try checking out a bit of our history then come back and tell me if the movers and shakers should have left the country instead of changing things.
Then again it looks like some would be happy to live in the past where women were not allowed to vote or work after marriage; would be happier if we had no electricity supply or sewerage systems; treated and labelled the aboriginal population as fauna; asked permission from the UK before making decisions.
Hey???
I couldn't care less if you loved the flag or not. ( i assume here you refer to the design of it). That's subjectly superficial. Some have emotional investment in the design of the flag, some don't. The flag is so much more than a design on a piece of fabric.
BTW, at a technical level, we do still ask for permission from the UK before making a decision. Before any new law is brought into force, it must be given assent by the Queen's representative. OK, just a formality these days, but still - the implication is still there.
