Congratulations Aussies, we have a Trumpette!

Australia was never monocultural and can never be monocultural. Before and during English colonisation there was a pre-existing culture on this continent which will continue into the future and will not be erased. As for European-descended colonisers, from the beginning the colony was split between Protestants and Catholics, English and Irish, ruling class and their enforcers and convicts and so on. And that’s just for starters. There has never been a monoculture. There is a monocle view which makes it simple not to think.

What are your favourite (or reviled) Pauline truisms (or falsisms)?

  • minimumchips@aussie.zone
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    I doubt that monoculture exists anywhere. What does that even mean? It’s as nebulous as the term social cohesion. A thought terminating cliché. We’re already living in different cultures based on our geographical location and class background.

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      What does that even mean?

      I suspect it’s a reaction to “multicultural”. Their demand isn’t a cohesive vision, it’s a tantrum.

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      Much of what she says fits this vague, nostalgic view of the past and what the cookie cutter present should be.

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        Yeah nostalgia can be distorting. It makes it worse when material conditions were actually better for many people in the past though. That has nothing to do with this monoculture idea though. And Pauline won’t make material conditions better for workers.

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          That’s for sure. It’s just words anyway. If PHON have to front up with real policies let’s see what they come up with.

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      I doubt that monoculture exists anywhere. What does that even mean?

      Read it as monochrome culture and it makes much more sense.

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      Besides which unless we do some pretty awful stuff it’s probably impossible to achieve. It’s unbelievably diverse for our population.

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        The kind of monoculture I’d like to see is one that priotises wages over asset growth. I suppose that would be awful for asset owners, but I’m sure they’ll be OK.

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    That’s not even the real story here. The real story is that the party of freedom and anti woke is having a sook and wants to use police resources to arrest the person who did it… Over a piece of paper that literally showed a real fact

    Almost like a dictatorship would against their political opponents.

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    All of the above, plus today monoculture is recognized as a bad thing (agriculturally speaking). Can’t she even find a good metaphor?

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      That’s the first thing I thought of too, the agricultural meaning, and how monoculture is bad for the land and for living beings. She either does not have enough understanding to see the implications of what she’s saying, or, she wants to stir the pot to get lots of attention and social media action.

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      What do you mean? All Aboriginals practiced welcome to country ceremonies like some sort of monoculture

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        I think you may be ribbing but if you’re not, do a bit of reading and you will find that clan or tribal groups had different protocols for acknowledging visitors to the country over which they were custodians depending on their local traditions. It was a way for both visitors to identify themselves and for the custodians of that part of the country to welcome them and express their culture. At the time of European settlement there were about 250 indigenous languages with about 500 dialects, so, language being part of culture already tells you that there was a lot of diversity and not a sort of monoculture.

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    And I suppose it’s her culture and she is going to impose it on everyone, whether they like it or not

    she and her oppressive intolerant mates can eff off

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    I mean its kinda cool folks keeping up cultural traditions but monoculture is boring. Its great being in a city where you have a chinese area, and indian, and korean, and irish, and polish, and german, and ukrainian, and just everything.