Who's More British...

[limey]

Originally Posted by Aliantha

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Australia is the way it is BECAUSE we were settled by convicts and free settlers. That's what makes us great. We began from the downtrodden underclass and a collective vow has been unconsiously taken by all of us to never be treated like second class citizens by the world at large. We are a young nation and we're proud and free. We have achieved marvels of science and technology. We have a lifestyle most countries envy. We are a nation of people of all colours, creeds, religions. ....

I must say that's largely what I've always thought.

Originally Posted by Aliantha

...We are truly multicultural and that's as it should be. Australians are citizens of the world and we are all equal....

Some of the things one reads about treatment of the aborigine population and their culture make me question this bit, but I'm happy to be corrected. I'll also be the first to say the British can be appalling racists.