Easy, easy...relax. I don't speak English like I could make nuances or being subtle. But I do know I'm being polite. Just let's keep a standard...like we were gentlemen who like rugby and discussing (but not fighting) about politics.
I don't consider myself a liberal. In fact I consider myself a moderate conservative. I'm also passionate about my country, and I can tell you now that if you had the barest idea of Australian 20th century history, you'd know it was one of dogged Australian loyalty to the mother country punctuated by British betrayal at every turn. Australia has been its own country for over a hundred years, and we have plenty of our own traditions and symbols at this point, so we hardly need to continue piggybacking off our forebears.
You already said it, I already knew it. Not much love for England (govt's, not englishmen) in my heart. Admiration on some points, yes. Zero feelings. You didn't get the point. You don't need to maintain an english monarch by any chance in order to have some culture like the one of your own were an inferior one. Which is not.
Look, I'm not saying your points are a load of sentimental, unimaginative and antiquated bulls#!%, but Australian culture doesn't need the symbols and rituals of some bloated pommy monarchy to survive. Heck, if that were important, the United States wouldn't be the most powerful country in the world and Britain wouldn't have virtually gone bankrupt after WWII. Or do you think the French and the Irish feel their societies are poorer because they don't force their tax payers to subsidise the family of a pack of murderers from the middle ages to sit around expensive estates drinking expensive whisky and wine?
Thank you, thank you...USA were built AGAINST that monarchy. Different story. French and irish are french and irish, I don't want to make more friends around
I agree with you on one thing though, rituals and symbols are important, and that's why I'm a republican. Because it's important that we stop borrowing our identity and symbols off people we only superficially resemble. Otherwise we're little better than religious folk who borrow their morals and identity from the words of dead men who lived in an age punctuated by ignorance and brutality.
Man, who do you want to fool? Yourself? It's like me wanting to be distinguished of an uruguaian from a mile distance. You are mainly british islands working class (that's an actual compliment, something to be proud of) with an all year round tan.
As for South America and US protectorate states... well, again, you clearly don't know d*ck about Australia if you don't know that it was the US that saved our ass after English incompetence left us open for invasion in WWII, and that we've effectively been a US protectorate state ever since. Heck, in a certain sense it would be more logical to have the US President as our symbolic head of state. At least US power is actually relevant in Australia. Because I can tell you one thing: our ties with Britain will mean f#** all if China's power continues on its current trajectory - that's why we're strengthening our ties with Washington, Japan and South Korea.
Ok, I don't know whatever word substituded with asterisks about Australia (a country which I like in my World Top 5) but you are, yet, europeans living upside down. Neither asian, nor polynesian. The issue with Washington, Japan and SK, looks good. The chinese one, doesn't.
By the way, you were involved in an invasion risk BECAUSE of the USA gov't who pushed off limits with Japan. Yes, sir, Roosvelt did it. Forced Japan (who of course were already willing to it) to enter a war with no risk for USA and every danger to british empire.
But I have an everybody happy solution; England becomes a republic, and the rest of the commonwealth follows the lead. That would the trick, wouldn't it?
