A friend of mine got this email uninvited today. Listen to this hapless drivel:
Australia- The Right to Leave
IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT. Take It Or Leave It! I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali , we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians.
However, the dust from the attacks had barely settled when the 'politically correct' crowd began complaining about the possibility that our patriotism was offending others. I am not against immigration, nor do I hold a grudge against anyone who is seeking a better life by coming to Australia . However, there are a few things that those who have recently come to our country, and apparently some born here, need to understand.
This idea of Australia being a multicultural community has served only to dilute our sovereignty and our national identity. As Australians, we have our own culture, our own society, our own language and our own lifestyle. This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom. We speak ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society, Learn the language!
'In God We Trust' is our National Motto. This is not some Christian, right wing, political slogan. We adopted this motto because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented. It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture.
If the Southern Cross offends you, or you don't like 'A Fair Go', then you should seriously consider a move to another part of this planet.We are happy with our culture and have no desire to change, and we really don't care how you did things where you came from. This is OUR COUNTRY, OUR LAND, and OUR LIFESTYLE, and we will allow you every opportunity to enjoy all this.
But once you are done complaining, whining, and griping about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our National Motto, or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great Australian freedom,'THE RIGHT TO LEAVE! If you aren't happy here then move on! We didn't force you to come here. You asked to be here. So accept the country YOU accepted. Pretty easy really, when you think about it.
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Where do I start with you witless chumps? 'In God we trust' is not 'our national motto', Brainstrust - its the American national motto. And Florida's, for that matter. We haven't even had one since "Advance Australia" was taken from the coat of arms in the 1920s.
So listen up here, Daniel Boone, of Bondi: if you don't like our own, non-American, fair go culture: the door's over there mate. Cop ya later!
And if you want to rampage pissed on beaches, chuck rocks and attack defenceless passers-by minding their own business - you're not welcome in our democracy.
Oh, and when we've got the maturity to have our own flag and head of state, I'll start taking you so-called "nationalists" seriously. You just look like little BNP Bovver Boys to me; waving a Union Jack around. Only with surfboards.
Multicultural Australia: if you don't like it, vote to change it. I don't like your chances, but you're welcome to exercise that right. But don't ever forget this: you weren't 'here first' either ... were you now?
Update: Ah, its all a 2nd-rate cut and paste job from US crazies. Talk about undesirable aliens! Septic Patriotism is best left where it is, Straya.
7 comments:
The whole email is ripped-off from a US Christian, right wing, political number.
Apparently it first hit Australia in 2005.
In my line of work, we dread every July bringing back the 'Mars will appear as large as the full Moon' emails. At least that one is relatively harmless.
Well, that explains it! And it just goes to show that this sort of loud empty, patriotism isn't native to this soil. Its an undesirable alien..
Lefty, being a gal from a few beaches north... you can't put the Bra Boys in with the Southern Soldiers and the Shire Boys - they are a multi-racial gang and always have been.
After the Cronulla riots - the older Abberton, Sunny did MSM with some Lebanese bikie gang leader trying to calm everything down - - Maroubra got smashed up pretty bad.
The Bra Boys might be territorial thugs, but they are multi-racial territorial thugs.
Fair enough Jo - corrected. I must confess I wouldn't know the ins and outs of Sydney (let alone Sydney gangs) if I fell over them. I dont even know where this so-called Cronulla, and this 'ere Bilbo Baggins 'Shire' are. Ive been to Randwick though! And Bondi. And Newtown. Are you saying there's more to Sydney?!
Brisbane, Melbourne, Latin America, Timor. These are the four points of my globe.
Yeah, I got this one in my email today from a colleague who said to pass it on to people who are whinging about all of the car flags. Little did she know I was one of them!
I love the "In God We Trust" bit. Very Australian. I am sure it is on our bank notes.
I guess we must have been founded on Christian values... given that section 116 of the Constitution says that an established religion is a big no-no.
Seriously tho, this US inspired meme aside, friends of mine in Bris and Syd were already noticing the explosion of flag-waving practices - not seen in previous years. Haven't seen it much here in Melb so far.
(doorbitch: reocker. No kidding)
Very big in Brisbane, at least, out here on the Bayside. Was especially bad in a street around a friend's house that I went to visit. Admittedly there was a party on but I counted something like 40 in the street.
It was a bit like the UN.
Anecdotally: half of them are on utes. (And still there!)
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