You're right mhaze, we should celebrate and
rejoice in the good memories. And there's so
many to be had in this country. Of course not
for everyone. As we saw from the Voice referendum
our Indigenous people are still hurting today.
But that will be fixed.

And Australia's early immigration policy was hampered by
a narrow racist view of the world that limited immigration
to those who qualified under the White Australia policy.
That's now gone.

But in the 1970s Australia began embracing the virtues
of a multi-cultural immigration policy - a largely
bi-partisan policy that has now enabled Australia to
become one of the world's most admired societies in the
world . A nation to which so many want to come and live.

Think of our innovations, our technology, our science,
our music, our theatre, our arts, our films, our sports,
so many choices to celebrate. All made possible by
immigration.

We can look not only to the good bits in our past but
most importantly - to the good bits still to come.
Like our own flag, Head of State, and much, much, more.

Yay!

Dear Mhaze,

«"and in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make". That sentiment only makes sense to those imbued with the western civilisation.»

Do I smell condescension?

Paul,

" did he do 'Back In The U.S.S.R? Or my favourite 'GET BACK'. BTW The Beatles were a very commercial product."

Didn't do Back in the USSR. He did do Get Back. The entire tour was called 'Got Back'.

They were commercially successful but that's not the same as being commercial. They didn't follow commercial trends. They set commercial trends.







Yuyutsu.

"Do I smell condescension?"

I don't know. What does condescension smell like?

My point was that this type of sentiment only makes sense to the western mind. A Muslim, for example, wouldn't understand that thinking and would most definitely not originate that type of thinking. That's not to say one is better than the other. Horses for courses.

But for me and mine, western thinking and western traditions are better than the alternatives. People from other cultures would think likewise about their culture - that its suits them better than the alternatives. I was simply pointing out that a feature of western culture is that it can imagine and foster a phenomenon like The Beatles and thinking like "the love you take, is equal to the love you make".

Of course, it all fosters naive thinking like that of ttbn who thinks that, since the concert didn't resolve all problems then it was useless. It rained yesterday and the sun didn't dry things out today, so what good is the sun!! By the way...Here Comes the Sun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQetemT1sWc

Yesterday
All my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they're here to stay
Oh, I believe in yesterday ...

Dear Mhaze,

Thank you for this beautiful clip, "Here Comes the Sun".

That "the love you take, is equal to the love you make", is universal.
It could just as well been said by wise Hindus, Buddhists, Chinese and even Sufi Muslims.

You may know that the Beatles had a long flirt with India and Hinduism.
While the others came and went, George Harrison remained enfolded in the Hindu traditions.
Some Indians loved the Beatles, others hated them, just as in the West.

Here is a combined intercultural version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJKgPN04218

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In my life ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqpysaAo4BQ&ab_channel=TheBeatlesStuff

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