• snooggums@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I take the view that if people want to emigrate to a country, then they adopt the values and practices of that country

    This implies that a country is a country with a never changing set of values, and not something that has a set of values because of all the changes that led to the current set of values. He is basically doing the thing where the current state of something is held up as the way it has always been, and assumes that there is no reason to ever change.

    Yeah, celebrating differences is great. That foesn’t mean that those differences should never change because they happened to exist at one point in time, and even them they never universally apply to everyone in the area/group, they mostly are what those in power say they are.

    • muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      We don’t choose countries based what they believe we choose countries based on how they choose to believe. So simply adopt those beliefs of what being Australian means and with your ballot steer this nation to greatness.