My Grandfather and his brothers fought for AUSTRALIA in the first world war ..my dad in the second , now at age 58 having lived my life in the country, and brought up on the basic traditions its now against the law, apparently / alledgedly, to have A CHRISTMAS PARTY...new name "end of year party", so to avoid offending NEW AUSTRALIANS who come to live here, but don't believe in our customs. How do I understand this?. To me its a bit like last in line being served first, its that backward !
2007-12-01 19:24:08 · 17 answers · asked by deedubya 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
this is so ridiculous to me..... what happened to ''freedom of speech".......what next .. limitations on that now....... i find this stuff to be so petty..........next.. you'll get a fine..if you tell someone god bless you when they sneeze.........or would that be harrassment..... this crap makes me sick!!!!
and Alex up there...... you just don't get it.. honey!!!!!!!
2007-12-01 19:29:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Australia is a Christian country and yet the 'majority' of people here are forced to kowtow to the minority. A lot of these minorities don't believe in Christmas or Easter (and that is their prerogative) but each and everyone of them takes the holidays with no whingeing whatsoever.
I do think that it should be about time that the Australian people, therefore the Australian Government, make it known that if "you want to live in Australia it is you who have to change" not the Australian people.
Till I die it will be CHRISTMAS PARTY and nothing else.
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Ferrari lover: I think that the correlation he is making is that people fought in the World Wars for what they believed in. ANZAC'S put their lives and limbs on the line to keep Australia free, so that no one would control or dictate to us.
They were successful that is until the arrival of "Political Correctness."
2007-12-02 05:31:15 · answer #2 · answered by PC 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's PC gone mad, and I'm surprised it's happening in Oz
Don't new immigrants have to sign up to some agreement before they are accepted that they will abide by Austrailias laws & culture.
I'm an atheist, but it's madness to not call it Christmas (well except for the obvious part about christ not existing and it all being a corruption of older pagan rituals).
EDIT: Bunnykins strikes again with her one track, blinkered, view on life.... "If they don't like our customs they should have stayed where they came from" ... The Aborigines could say the same, if non Aborigines don't want to follow the "Ancestor Spirits" and believe in the "dream time" stories then maybe they should also go home, after all their culture is tens of thousands of year older than Christianity ... As for the "thrown in prison bit" .... weren't the 1st settlers sent there specifically for that reason ... LOL
Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating the forced repatriation of non-aborigines, just pointing out the flaws in bunnykins overtly racist thinking, which I have seen in several questions now
2007-12-02 03:30:13 · answer #3 · answered by Weatherman 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The devil is in the details. There is a lot of sad things happening in our world today to get as far away from anything religious. It's a pendulum. It will swing back the other way one day as this kind of stuff never lasts.
2007-12-02 11:16:15 · answer #4 · answered by Irish 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes well i agree with you fully!! ...all us Aussies should get out in the streets & protest!!!.... its getting to be like a Dictatorship now in this country!!
All this so called Multicultural stuff has got way out of hand now days, just call it a Christmas Party & take no notice
2007-12-02 03:55:17 · answer #5 · answered by ausblue 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
are you saying the aboriginals celebrate Christmas?
cause I think they were there first in australia and I'm going to imagine they hate your customs and wish you would leave.
and really is it that hard to call it a holiday party instead of a Christmas party, this is why people think Christians are egotistical.
sis I do get it and I don't think its fair to make some people feel unwelcomed just because they don't celebrate, I guess I just don't see it as being the christian thing to do. But you just go ahead and make everyone who isn't like you, who is new, who perhaps celebrates another holiday this time of the year feel like an outcast.
2007-12-02 03:27:58 · answer #6 · answered by alex 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
What does serving in the war for Australia have to do with Christmas?
I'm sorry, I don't see a correlation.
Christmas is a religious observance...not a military one.
2007-12-02 03:29:15 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think that is so stupid. You should be able call your party whatever the **** you want to call it whether it be a Christmas party or a hannnukah party or whatever.
religion is so fricken messed up like that its rediculous. thats why im atheist.
2007-12-02 03:29:24 · answer #8 · answered by Ziggy Stardust 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This whole world seems to be going backward. "Don't offend people who have very little invested, but everyone else doesn't matter" seems to be the prevalent attitude among those who are supposed to be looking out after us. It is becoming commonplace for our representatives to misrepresent us.
2007-12-02 03:35:08 · answer #9 · answered by f1mudvayne29 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i think its getting worse every year, pretty soon were not gonna be able to do anything for christmas because od offending people, what about us the people that want to celebrate it, arent we offended what about our rights, just like prayer in school, we cant have that now, and plus there not likeing...in God we trust on money......every year its something new i just wonder by the time children grow up will there even be able to celebrate christmas
2007-12-02 03:29:12 · answer #10 · answered by ? 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
That is so unfair, There should still be a x-mas party.
2007-12-02 03:28:09 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋