And the Vikings.
Also demonstrative of the depth of racism in this country is how someone can say they are of Irish or British decent and it is not questioned or queried. But say you are Aboriginal and many conservatives seem to take great umbrage.
Yes my grandmother was from an awful Catholic mission in Newcastle Monti Pio she destroyed her birth certificate do you think we can get it back !!! Nup
I’ve tried everything so has my uncle she had a brother also forced adoption we were told that she would have been adopted under her Aboriginal name no records and the Catholic Church don’t want to know
Yes, we hunted for years. Remember, the birth cert is a Western construct anyway, its being accepted by Mob & spirit that counts. Back in the day they spelt names wrong, they wrote false dates & not everyone even had a cert or registered. it can be like a massive puzzle, it can take many years.
Good thing Australia isn’t multicultural or built on English law and Aboriginal culture and traditions are afforded the respect they deserve then, isn’t it?
Honestly it's not fair at all and it blows my mind how so many in this country can begrudge the people with the least for their own self interest. Change the date.
A friends mother died on my birthday. Since then I have not had a party on my birthday because I don’t want or need to celebrate a date that’s so hard for her.
It’s not the same thing but it’s analogous.
And why celebrate an English date? Why cling to brutal colonisers?
We could evolve!
England needs to follow Scotland's example & chase up the 1st January New Year public holiday with another one on the 2nd.
And then spend the day really taking stock of their (inter)national legacy still remaining from prior years.
Humour aside, a clear distinction should be made, as the US narrator notices, between 'discovering' something & straight up 'inventing' something.
In the current moment it's worth debating if the USA was truly discovered or invented.
NB Video doesn't cover British economic or political philosophies.
There are some remaining areas where wiping the slate clean is often the best way forwards;
( Graeber's final chapter heading is exquisite, "The Beginning of Something Yet to Be Determined (1971-present)" ) https://davidgraeber.org/books/debt-the-first-5000-years/
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Also demonstrative of the depth of racism in this country is how someone can say they are of Irish or British decent and it is not questioned or queried. But say you are Aboriginal and many conservatives seem to take great umbrage.
if they stayed, they tended to assimilate…not wholesale genocidal slaughter and land grabs :)
https://bsky.app/profile/shakesfirst.bsky.social/post/3lfoxd7fzj226
It’s not the same thing but it’s analogous.
And why celebrate an English date? Why cling to brutal colonisers?
We could evolve!
And then spend the day really taking stock of their (inter)national legacy still remaining from prior years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD-reK7wWWc
In the current moment it's worth debating if the USA was truly discovered or invented.
NB Video doesn't cover British economic or political philosophies.
( Graeber's final chapter heading is exquisite, "The Beginning of Something Yet to Be Determined (1971-present)" )
https://davidgraeber.org/books/debt-the-first-5000-years/