Quote Originally Posted by plague View Post
I def agree here.
Indeed it's a fine line between celebrating and respecting a culture to outwardly grouping people by their colour or race.
I dont think govts do a great job of it either.


Anyone answer this for me:
With all the debate about changing the Australian flag to something more inclusive. .........has anyone ever asked if the indigenous folk are ready to give up their flag too?

Because if we're all gonna come together and kick out the past (namely the union jack) then 'everyone' gotta start fresh no?
I don't even think the entire indigenous community wants to change the flag. I think that's more of an conversation starter for some people to get to the issues they actually want changed. They want to be acknowledged as the first Australians, the flag is just a way of getting the topic discussed by the media to continue their arguments.

They want to national anthem changed where they say we are young and free to something other than young. Because we have some of the oldest signs of early humans.
They want the curriculum changed so that Australia didn't start the day that Cook got here.
They want Australia changed from Aus 26th. (It should be the 1st of January when we signed the constitution but that doesn't suit the holiday makers so they keep as the day Cook Arrived.)

This is the basic stuff that I seem to see people calmly discussing. The land stuff and other points I don't pay attention to.