Comments by "Sam Miller" (@sammiller6631) on "Propaganda in Russian Schools // What Russia “Teaches” Kids" video.
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@theduck2970 Aussies don't make a big deal about their ancestry due to the Convict Stain. There's a good write up in Little Atoms' article "Anzac Day: A myth to cleanse Australia's "convict stain":
"...The story has it that our boys were led as cannon-fodder by posh British generals, despite the British losing some 30,000 men to our 7,000 in the course of the campaign. It feeds into the idea of the national character that loves the underdog and cuts down tall poppies. It’s a nationalism that allows Australians to look into the water at Anzac Cove and fall in love with the reflection that shines back at them. It is “Patriotic Correctness” as the late Robert Hughes would have it. ...for the all of the sledging of the British high command, it is not anti-colonial nationalism but spirited chauvinism.
Historian John Hirst believes “the convict stain” began the Anzac obsession. “No one ever said that the New Zealand nation was born at Gallipoli,” he writes. “New Zealand was not so desperate for the world's approval.”
The fact that post-colonial Australia has been untouched by war on its soil - and the prosperity and cohesion that has brought - is not celebrated.
...the only post-colonial battles fought on Australian soil were The Great Emu War and the Battle of Brisbane, where Australian soldiers, aggrieved that the visiting American troops were getting all the girls, waged battle for two nights until order was restored.
...a 2014 book Anzac’s Long Shadow by James Brown, a former army officer who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, highlights how the funding and the reverence for the dead soldiers of Gallipoli far outweighs that for current servicemen and women."
Mocking the Pommies doesn't negate the cultural cringe that Aussies carry around.
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