Uno Muchachos

Zaman is worried about the australian values citizenship test which takes something from being annoying to personal. As in it is incoveniencing my friends. There where some demo questions about general info for the citizenship test.

What is the significance of gallipoli to Australians?

I don't fucking know. I don't fucking know why it's significant, I thought it was a military fuckup.

So how about this question existing Australians?

Who is Bungil?

What is the name of the traditional owners of your area's tribe?

The point is we didn't give a fuckeroo. We just came in took everything we liked. Disposessed the Australians of there land and possessions and then decided to impose a citizenship test to try and prevent our 'culture' from being threatened.
Here's some myths you may find often perpetuated in Australia:

Australia is significant - No it isn't, Opinions of prominent Australians recieve relatively little attention in foreign press and political circles, close relationships such as Mr Howards go largely unreported by foreign news services and have little impact on the outside world as they have had little impact with US foreign policy towards Australia.

Aussie Battlers - Just don't plain exist, Australians are in reality fabulously wealthy and lucky and socially secure by world standards. Very few people are genuinely struggling the myth is perpetuated to keep low income brackets feeling dissatisfied and dispossesed.

The Anzacs are heroes - Watch 'Flags of Our Fathers' the label hero is a political tool, an idiot getting themselves killed is described as a war hero in modern conflict, often 'war heroes' are not sporting heroes (eg. people with phenominal talent for war) war is the human cost of political and diplomatic bumblings that actually determine the outcomes of war, the label of war hero makes the vane sacrifice of human life seem worthwhile whereas it is most likely (particularly in modern times) a complete waste. Celebrating war heroes detracts attention away from the failings of the war mongers.

Americans are stupid - No they aren't, people often site the fact that many americans can't point to Australia on a map. Point to New York New York on an unmarked map, an economy larger than Australia and significant cultural center. I can't though I do have a rough impression of where it is. The US has produced Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Naom Chomsky, Carl Sagen... australia has produced Steve Irwin. Need I say more.

Mateship - firstly an indefinable term, secondly Australians are nasty pieces of work, with a failed state in their back yard and persecution of homosexuals in it's parliament. You know South Africa legalised Gay Marriage? you know Apartheid South Africa, now their more progressive than us! but that's right the only reason we don't have fucking apartheid here is because we never needed it. The aboriginal population has always been so small and poor to pose no threat whatsoever to maintaining a white democracy, that's why we never had apartheid, that's the only reason why.

I won't stand for the National Anthem anymore, I don't believe in it and integrity dictates I don't sing it. It's an old outmoded Australia that has that anthem. The anti Aussie Lebonese groups I don't identify with, I think they are reacting to a greater problem which is the insecurity of an unsustainable dying culture trying to assert itself when cornerered. White Australia is dying a slow agonizing death that I welcome as my family is larger now. It's getting intermarried and extended.

I will say this for Australia though, it provided me with the education to instill the values that directly contradict those it now tries so desperately to uphold.