Question to my nationalist moots: Do you view the creation of large-scale empires as regrettable because they established enduring connections between your nation & outsiders, or do you still take pride in those empires because of what was achieved by your ancestors?
The closest Australia has ever gotten to true multiculturalism is when Germans settled Australia, built German language-median schools, named places after German figures, built Lutheran churches, and settled entire regions.
Everything since then has just been about food lol.
Timing is everything, Australia was still newly settled and more responsive to new inputs, thus would've developed into Australia's identity organically.
These days, it works significantly less like that as there's a stronger distinction between Australian & what’s not.
In my family, we always knew we were Burmese, French, & Anglo. We celebrated those holidays, learned those languages, and saw them as part of our family’s history.
If a completely new cultural tradition were introduced, it would naturally feel like something that isn’t ours.
Trying to import Trump politics into Australia is a losing strategy. Our multicultural identity runs deeper than America’s, and this country was built by migrants. anti-worker policies in a nation proud of higher wages and labour rights? Good luck. Fuck ONP.
I really don’t care about Pauline Hanson’s monoculturalism statement, because it’s about aesthetics.
But to suggest Australian identity wasn’t historically based off ethnicity, and always had a ‘multicultural identity’ is blatantly wrong.
Come to think of it, I’ve grown to hate both the localist & leftist interpretations of historic Australian identity. Neither of them reflect the reality. Australia as a society was founded by educated British Protestants, not the multicultural working class, nor a distinct nation
Some Americans CELEBRATE 4th of July as the Independence day FROM Israel by setting on fire its flag
That includes Marine vet Brian McGinnis, who was manhandled for protesting Iran war, during Senate hearing earlier this Spring
I'd argue that the reason Gen Z doesn't have a higher opinion of capitalism is that we don't have a whole lot of it today.
NIMBY policies block building houses.
Social Security has a portion of their paycheck going to Boomers.
Government involvement jacked up education.
Around 30% of China's economy is tied to real estate and related sectors, and much of the Chinese middle class stores its wealth in apartments.
"Houses are for living, not speculation" sounds good, until you realise that it's trying to patch a major systemic failure.
It's all nice and well until you learn that most of the average Chinese person's wealth is in the real estate market, which actually is a hugeee problem
Richard Spencer says he doesn’t think Hasan Piker and his DSA cohort are actual communists: “I don’t think Hasan has an ability to read in general, not to mention read Karl Marx.”
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I love internationalists who are anti-war.
If you believe in an international order, why oppose the military power needed to defend, spread it, and uphold it?