When I initially read the headline, I assumed it was that a 9 year old was racist and wouldn't stand if other people were in the room. The actual article makes me feel really silly for thinking that though.
Wait, Australian schoolkids have to do the whole anthem bullshit too? I thought that was specific to American schools.
It was worse at my school. Not just the national anthem, but modern Christian worship as well.
I hate the highschool I went to.
It's not something I've ever encountered outside of a school assembly or sometimes a ceremony. It's not like the pledge of allegiance where you hold your hand on your heart and say it at the start of every school day.
Yeah but no one really cares. Everyone only mumbles through it
Probably 90% of Australians don’t even know half of the lyrics
Raising awareness of 'institutionalised racism', father says
What do you wanna bet the kid is parroting something she's heard.
Is this supposed to be a bad thing.
Yes. Parroting implies you don't understand it, and you shouldn't spout off about something you don't understand.
That's... that's how children learn. By example. I'd much rather them emulate things like this than start spouting racist shit they saw on r/The_Donald.
Pretty much everyone I know immediately forgets what comes after "Our home is girt by sea" because what the fuck is girt even that's just such a weird word
A kid repeating something good? Oh no.
Not saying they shouldn't learn, but kids probably ought not to be staging protests on behalf of their parents.
If kids should be encouraged to engage in critical thinking then they shouldn't be indoctrinated to stand for national anthems.
Good on you, kid.
I'll be honest; I don't understand how "young" in the Australian anthem means Australia is for the white and that Austraila is for White Supremacy.
The meaning of words are beginning to change.
My dad told me not to stick shit into the wall outlets, I didn't understand why, just that it's bad and I will get hurt.
What's wrong with telling kids that you should treat everyone equal and that and that a lot of people in the world don't and that that's bad?
That reminds me that through every school year in greece we had to assemble outside before the first hour started to pray and listen to any announcements from the school's principal if he had any,most of the time it was either to inform us about any changes to the school from the ministry.
Although i didnt really mind the praying as i got used to it over the years i went to school,i am curios about how time consuming that process is in the states as i dont know much about it other than the flag anthem that usualy happens there.
People interpret it as excluding Aboriginals since they have lived on the continent for tens of thousands of years. But it's not the anthem for the Australian continent, it's the anthem for the Australian state which has only existed since 1901.
Do people who live in Australia actually owe something to Aboriginals? I'm genuinely curious at this point because I don't see any racism (From the general population) living in Sydney, yet I always see non-aboriginal people screaming racism?
The same philosophy should be observed regarding chanting the national anthem, then.
Until it backfires and you have someone like me who for most of my life simply parroted the shit I heard from my dad who regurgitated everything Fox News said, making me another conservative drone until Facepunch/The Internet slowly opened my eyes by pointing out all the flaws and asinine talking points and I realized how fucking stupid I was for the most part.
It doesn't take going on r/The_Donald for them to start spouting racist shit.
how is it you quote her and still completely miss the point?
As far as countries are concerned. Populations of people matter more and Australia HAS been inhabited for far longer.
Well, Lately the goverement has been using this as a way to build up positiveity towards itself.
For me it was every single fucking morning in primary school and every single assembly in High School.
Why would kids have to stand for a fucking song anyway. What sort of creepy cult shit is that?
Because people lived there before the country was formed.
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