I've lived in the Western suburbs of Sydney.
And in the Eastern suburbs of Melbourne.
I've also lived in Kempsey, and Byron.
And overseas from the US, Germany, Mexico, and
Canada.

I have never been bored in any of them.

Dear SPQR,

I don't believe at this time it is possible to have a democratic world organisation as most people in the world do not live in democratic societies. People would vote as blocs so one person - one vote would be meaningless. A democratic world society would only be possible in a world where almost all people accept democratic values so I don't know if it would ever be possible.

Jay Of Melbourne, and a handful of other rightie racists here, just utterly HATE seeing "one" race dominate..... EXCEPT.... when the race is, yep you guessed it, WHITE.

They are more than happy to see WHITE domination. They are paranoid and in desperate fear and loathing of their "perceived" Chinese invasion of Preston (when only a tiny, tiny miniscule percentage of the population there is actually Chinese)

Several of these racists replied to my previous post (which 100% proved that Chinese are a very, very, very tiny minority in Preston) that it only applies to Chinese born in China. They said that these hated Chinese have Aussie born children, therefore that proves the Chinese are dominating Preston. Preston has just a mere 3.9% of it's population that were born in China. Now, in my post I pointed out there are FOUR times more people from Preston born in Italy, Greece, India and Vietnam than born in China. Do these forum anti Chinese racists not think that these people from Italy, Greece, India and Vietnam ALSO have children born here? The forum racists ignore that, and imply that there's ONLY children of "Chinese people" born here, and therefore they dominate the numbers (OMG they're breeding like rabbits and Preston's end is nigh).

The forum racists here are pretty stupid, as I've just shown. They'll do anything to inflate the number of Chinese people in Preston, and pretend that their cherished "whites" are being driven out and dominated by Chinese people. Typical far right wing racist paranoia and fear.

These racist old men on this forum belong in a long past era.

Davidf

Thanks! There may be hope for you yet

Dear SPQR,

Do you know anything about David F's
background? If you're impressed with
the fact that Tony Abbott is a Roads Scholar,
ooops sorry, Freudian slip here, I meant a
Rhodes Scholar. Then you should also be made
aware that David is an Oxford University
graduate, and much, much, much, more.

It all depends on definitions, david f...

"I think it is unreasonable to love any country."

I think it can be reasonable to [be in] love [with] a country. Just as parents can love all their children. Even the ones they don't like.

Unconditional love should be reserved for between humans... or with pets. Love for institutions should always be conditional.

That's why I think the 'My Country, Right or Wrong!" brigade are wrong; because if a country is being wrong two wrongs don't make it right.

The George Santayana aphorism sums it up: "To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography."