Australia Day 2006
Posted January 27th, 2006 in Personal
Another Australia Day has passed, and with every year my patriotism seems to grow. We opted to go to the Bassendean fireworks this year, and what a great time it was. A HUGE fireworks show, great friends, and a thousand or more Australian flags waving in the wind.
I’m proud to be Australian, although some of Australia’s past and very recent actions need some serious evaluation and apologies. I’d like to think Australia wasn’t the racist nation we hear in the media, but these entries in Wikipedia make it hard for us to defend our land.
I can only hope that the general world population don’t judge a country by it’s minority or past misdeeds, however I think I am being too optimistic.
There’s a lot to be proud of in Australia, we’re a tolerant, friendly people with a ‘fair go’ mateship national personality – I think we need to work hard to prove it again.
There’s hundreds of Australia Day photos on Flickr.
Photo: Fire twirlers at Australia Day celebrations, Bassendean WA.
January 30th, 2006 at 10:45 am
Being proud of your country is usually harmless, but while there are national borders with resources in some that aren’t in others, national pride leads to fear, jealousy, superiority and inferiority identities, and when it’s extrapolated to people in positions of power, it leads to the history of warfare that has characterised humankind since the dawn of civilisation. The sooner we abolish the ‘your’ country and ‘my’ country mentality the sooner we’ll share the Earth and live in peace
January 31st, 2006 at 8:24 am
Beautiful photos Miles :)
October 17th, 2006 at 10:28 am
This is a Chinese girl.It’s my first time to browse the foreign blog,and so lucky that can see such a good lecture. I’m proud of China. my mothertown has experienced a lot of rough which has never appear on the other country’s story and i’m so proud of her.If you have come to China, you must be crazy about the beatiful nature scenery ,the delicious snack,the warm people there,and so on.How can i end my topics? I’m puzzled that there’s too many i wanna recommend to you,so the best choice is that one day you have chance for travelling,never forget China,maybe i can be your guide!
January 23rd, 2010 at 1:06 pm
Another Australia Day is coming.. hope all Aussies patriotism seems to grow… Happy Australia Day to all..