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TIO · 08-08-2004, 07:13 AM

Aussies are fiercly loyal to our country. We call it Godzone (God's Own for you Seppos) for a reason. We've got the best place on Earth down here, and we don't like it being maligned.

But we're not as visibly patriotic. We don't wave flags as much as you do (partly because ours sucks), we don't have anything like the pledge of allegiance and wouldn't want or need it, and almost all of us get lost after the first verse of our national anthem (if we even get that far). I think that we just all love our country, and that's just a natural thing, so it doesn't occur to us that we need symbols to show it off. We also have a pretty relaxed attitude to politics, and are happy to bag most of our pollies. So to the outside observer, we wouldn't look like much of a patriotic bunch.

But if you ever do want to see Aussie patriotism, I can give you three places:
1) The shore of whatever body of water runs through the city (or, better, in a pub in England), on Australia day
2) The dawn service in King's Park in Perth, and
3) The rugby.

You'll never see anyone more proud of their country anywhere in the world, than at those three places.

08-08-2004, 07:13 AM	#23 (permalink)
TIO Addict Location: The Land Down Under	Aussies are fiercly loyal to our country. We call it Godzone (God's Own for you Seppos) for a reason. We've got the best place on Earth down here, and we don't like it being maligned. But we're not as visibly patriotic. We don't wave flags as much as you do (partly because ours sucks), we don't have anything like the pledge of allegiance and wouldn't want or need it, and almost all of us get lost after the first verse of our national anthem (if we even get that far). I think that we just all love our country, and that's just a natural thing, so it doesn't occur to us that we need symbols to show it off. We also have a pretty relaxed attitude to politics, and are happy to bag most of our pollies. So to the outside observer, we wouldn't look like much of a patriotic bunch. But if you ever do want to see Aussie patriotism, I can give you three places: 1) The shore of whatever body of water runs through the city (or, better, in a pub in England), on Australia day 2) The dawn service in King's Park in Perth, and 3) The rugby. You'll never see anyone more proud of their country anywhere in the world, than at those three places. __________________ Strewth Last edited by TIO; 08-08-2004 at 07:16 AM..