See!...:)....at 3.08am....Iam still an idiot:)...see! that beer stuff, it will turn any man or woman for that matter, into a cocktailed moron:)

Sometimes...I think theres NO hope for us:)

See.ya....later;)

cc

Poirot,
Western Egoism? There was no "West" until the 1940's and from that bloc sprang all the liberation movements of the "civil rights" era. Sorry but that won't do.
Maybe blood and soil is the only explanation for White Australian identity, we most definitely are not an ideological people, historically it's been very difficult to politicise national feeling among native born Whites, nowadays it's impossible, Nationaist groups still number in the tens of members and have no visible presence in the community.
If you walked up to an Indian on the streets of Mumbai and asked him "Can you define what it is that makes you a Maharashtran?" he's probably going to look at you like you're an idiot in the first instance, then start talking about, history, unique cultural traits and customs, regional dialects and vernacular, architecture,and so on.
White Australians have a lot of unique characteristics and even if our culture did boil down to a bunch of negatives it's still ours and can belong to nobody else, more to the point, if we're so horrible why would anyone want to be part of our nation?.
As I said to Squeers, White guilt is in itself a racial trait and I tend to think the more Anglo Saxon blood you have the more pronounced it is, to the point of being a pathology, like the Aboriginal relationship with alchohol once it takes hold of a person it can be hard to break.
In the age of free access to information White guilt and political correctness are the symptoms of a very narrow minded person, if there's one identifiable trait of the White Australian it'd be that he's a free thinker and a free spirit.

Where are you from?
I guess the question where're you going & what are you doing would be way more appropriate. I'd be less academic & more pragmatic.
I came here from Europe in 1970 because I always wanted to see the nature of Australia. This admiration hasn't faded at all. The 1960's european society was merely the catalyst for my leaving but it only took 20 years to follow me. Now I have nowhere to go. I guess I just have to sit it out. When I arrived here I was amazed at the pragmatic mentality of Australians.
Unfortunately, it only lasted a very short while before that big Goaf & his mindless followers ruined it all.

JoM,

"...if there's one identifiable trait of the White Australian it'd be that he's a free thinker and a free spirit."

Whaaaat?!

Our society encourages and sanctions exactly the opposite behaviour!

(I'll have to get back to this later when I'm more awake)

@Poirot,

<<"...if there's one identifiable trait of the White Australian it'd be that he's a free thinker and a free spirit."
Whaaaat?!
Our society encourages and sanctions exactly the opposite behaviour!>>

Perhaps that is more a reflection of the circles YOU move in, Poirot!

Squeers, a reference for an oral history? Surely you jest or simply refuse to acknowledge your abysmal lack of knowledge of Aboriginal culture; and or, the nature of oral history?
I learned what I know of Aboriginal culture at the knee of a now long deceased Grandmother.
If you are really interested, try linking with Tasmanian history, heritage and culture. Not sure that will help you though; given your real purpose?
BTW, most non urban mainland Aborigines, will acknowledge that they were not the very first, first Australians; given, they also have an oral history that, at least in part, affirms my potted history lesson?