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“As a newly arrived immigrant, the flagwaving and wearing, the parties and the celebrating on Australia Day were not intimidating or boorish - they were an inspiration,” writes former Independent correspondent Maxine Frith:
I was blown away by Australia Day - by the sheer exuberance of a country coming together to unashamedly celebrate its existence.
Walking through the city centre towards Circular Quay, we passed a Chinese family, the little girl proudly sporting an Australian flag on each cheek.
At the ferry terminal, a gaggle of teenage boys were chatting in Italian, all of them draped in the flag, while alongside them a couple of impeccably dressed women pensioners each had a little flag poking out of their handbags.
In Balmain, where we were house-hunting, we stopped off for a drink and the man in the bar raised his glass to wish us a “Happy Australia Day’‘.
That’s what it’s like here in Reichstralia - just non-stop hatred and racism.
Welcome to Australia Maxine - If you are white then you are a racist and biggoted oppressor. Please apologise to aboriginals, illegal immigrants and radical Islamist groups immediately so that they can finally lift themselves out of their cycle of dysfunction. A simple sorry will be all that is required, as well as several billion dollars and a commitment to feel guilty for the rest of your life. If you are not white then you are oppressed. Please register with your local human rights organisation in order to manufacture a case for prosecuting anglo Australians for being racist and evil.
Goddamit, Tim. You sure know how to bring a tear to the eye of an expat.
Regardless of what we all think about Peter Allen, “I still call Australia home”
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 02 03 at 10:19 AM • permalinkIt’s really sad that fascism in Australia is infecting the non-white races, but I’m not surprised about the Italians.
Posted by Brian O'Connell on 2007 02 03 at 10:22 AM • permalinkY’know, I wish I’d known about Australia Day before I quit drinking…I could’ve added it to my list, right up there with CANADIAN Independence Day & Thanksgiving, ORTHODOX Christmas, Groundhog Day (my baby sister’s birthday), Administrative Assistants Day & a half-dozen other “holidays” which, for me, were just a great excuse for a brew(ery).
Now, I just pray a little prayer of thanks. Seems small, but it’s the best I can do…& my liver is happier, which is something to celebrate any chance I get.
“My (half Australian) husband had told me that the next day was Australia Day, but was rather cynical about the event, warning: “You’ll see a lot of flagwaving and triumphalism.’‘”
How the hell did this magnificent woman get hitched up with that twit?
Then again, Maxine clearly has a mind of her own.
Welcome, Maxine. Times 10.
I was in Sydney for Australia Day when I had a holiday there a few years back. I found it to be a friendly and inclusive thing, quite touching, especially the national anthem, which is ‘mumble mumble mumble ADVAANCE ‘STRALIA FAIR! mumble mumble mumble…’
By contrast a ‘family fun carnival’ in Britain usually involves all out fisticuffs at the beer tent by 1pm.
Welcome to Australia, Maxine.
You’ll love lots of things about our place.
As Firehand said,
It strikes me that Australia is much like the U.S. in that if you come here and want to be an American, you become an American, no matter where you were from before.
You’re more than welcome to be (an) Australian!
Sounds like you’re getting yourself a good one, Oz.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 02 03 at 09:36 PM • permalinkMore plugs for your bosses rag. Shameless.
Posted by Miranda Divide on 2007 02 03 at 10:43 PM • permalinkThat’s what it’s like here in Reichstralia
That’s funny. Tim, Steyn might be witty, but you’re funnier. Don’t tell him I said that.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 02 03 at 11:44 PM • permalink#8
It strikes me that Australia is much like the U.S. in that if you come here and want to be an American, you become an American, no matter where you were from before.
That’s because there no such thing as the Australian or American race. You can be an Anglo Australian or an Australian Arab or an Aboriginal Australian or an Australian Chinese - everyone is Australian. But in France, for instance, you can all be French citizens but only some can be truly French.
The problem here is that a small number of people don’t want to be Australian, even though they live here, such as the mad mufti of lakemba and many left wing commentators. Blair Effect strikes again.
How sad to be Miranda Divide. What a pity to be that hateful and discontented.
Of course, if I were such a sad creature, I’d be too ashamed of that kind of failure to ever say anything in public, even anonymously. Maybe it doesn’t recognize the kinds of admissions it makes for the failure it is. Maybe it doesn’t even recognize that it is making admissions of a personal kind.
Bless its heart.
with a disgraceful attitude like that and a tendency to report what she sees rather than what she wants to see it’s no wonder Maxine Frith is a former Independent correspondent
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 02 04 at 04:15 AM • permalink#8 Firehand
It strikes me that Australia is much like the U.S. in that if you come here and want to be an American, you become an American, no matter where you were from before.
It worked that way for about two centuries in Australia too, and it worked well. It’s very easy to list many successful Australians with strange sounding names.
But then someone decided that patriotism was politically incorrect and what the country really needed was multiculturalism.
Blessedly, the wheel seems to be turning and Australianism is starting to make a comeback.When I was a kid, we were told that Australia was definitely a second class place. Our writers and artists headed “home” to England to work (and no doubt nurture their drug and alcohol and homosexuality away from prying eyes).
A certain class of Australians at that time spoke with accents more BBC than the BBC. Over time of course “home” has become less relevant as our population mix has changed. Access to cheap travel has allowed many of us to visit “home” and see what it is like for ourselves. We stayed in an appalling hotels paying a ransom for the privilege, visited dirty smoke filled pubs because the weather was so crap we couldn’t go anywhere else.
We joined pasty faced badly dressed people crowded into the awful smelling Tube and we then began to have our doubts that we had been told the entire truth.
In a while a new generation started to grow and question our “second rate” status. Then lots of people from overseas started to queue to get in and live here. Not just “boat people” but young qualified people of all nations. Many of us started to feel that we had been lied to, maybe Australia was not only a good country but a great country.
Now these feelings have been helped by over 10 years of a strong economy. People are confident enough to start having babies (Mark Steyn be happy) and be optimistic. In short, they are happy. And proud.
There are clearly lots of people who can’t abide our happiness. Whatever is going on in their own lives it makes them not just sad but wildly angry that a young couple can build a new 400 sq metre air conditioned home in Parklea and drive a new SUV. It makes them even angrier that this same undeserving couple can send their kids to a private school by working really hard.
This is anger, maybe even envy but these angry people are only happy when dealing with “lesser” people such as aboriginals (preferably drunk and dirty and thus “deserving”) or unmarried mothers or uemployed young Lebanese men. Those who chose or have a heritage or religion that leaves them out of the general wellbeing are the people who justify their anger.
It has always been about what is going on is their own heads. They put clothes around it and call it “global warming” or “George Bush” or “John Howard” but it is themselves they really hate. For the rest of us Come on Aussie, come on come on!
#30
Well said, Allan
That monologue of yours should be bottled, and sprayed in the face of every Islamofacsist and sorry leftard from Melbourne to…er…Melbourne!
Oh, and Lakemba!
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 02 05 at 05:39 AM • permalink
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Racists must have branded the little Chinese girl.