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Think morally - rejecting the coercive adoption of Aussie values : Comments
By Mirko Bagaric, published 21/9/2006Aussie values - mateship, hard work and respect for women. And all the tourists want to do is sit on the beach!
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Who's going to sign a similar form when visiting Asia, Africa and South America?
Rather than focus on what values foreigners must adopt when they arrive here, I'd prefer to focus on the values and cultural forms that these "people"(foreigners) are expected to drop entirely.
Please be specific.
(This should be interesting).
If they are expected to drop nothing but simply adopt and embrace "Australian values" then what happens if everyone looks at the above translation and says
"Mateship: form of compassion - check, fair go: tolerance of others - check"
"equality of women - well this country isn't the best example of treating women equally so I suppose the way we treat women is on par with their "Australian way"- check"
Etc. etc.
So in the end they're really not having to give up or change anything. They just say they do and they're now suddenly "Australian".
Good. They can then continue to enrich our country with values of their own so that our adolescent culture can blossom into the fully grown and humane cultue it should be.