Shaming them doesn't work when you're the minority. It's like if you're getting discriminated against, you turn around and say, "Hey I'll discriminate against you." I wonder why African Americans never figured that out. Doesn't work and out of touch with reality. What's more, it's unnecessary.
I don't subscribe to being a defeatist.
You can be a friend to your enemy through lack of character, so said our Nobel Laureate.
In my profession I was a minority - real genuine minority! And yet, I stood my ground and they gave way.
African Americans once educated realised their potential and they did not give way then. Martin Luther King got them their way and now you have a Black President that one dreamt could happen.
If you want to be a door mat, you will remain so all your life.
There's no point in discussing this further. My countrymen don't care. Yet, you're getting all worked up. Are you trolling?
I am not trolling and that should be obvious to even the blind!
Which countrymen? Australian or Chinese?
If Australian, they sure do. The ideal example is the Indian origin Australian High Commissioner in India. He was vehement in taking up the Australian refrain, when there was this spate of racial problems pertaining to Indian students in Australia. Likewise, in the US. That guy Preet Bharara's, (the lawyer of Indian origin) record is his gunning for Indian origin and Indian diplomats to uphold "American values"! Therefore, for your own convenience you duck the issue with "My countrymen (taking that you mean Australians) don't care". They sure do, at least the non Chinese variety. I might tell you that there are my relatives and a whole lot of my school friends, who are Anglo Indians, and who have settled in Australia. They sure bat for Australia in a very nationalist, if not jingoistic way, if you will.
I look for erroneous arguments. I've also corrected Chinese members' illogical arguments. See the 'like' I received from maomao.
Bully for you!
Certainly not those who wants to get rid of the union jack. It's not what you feel or claim to feel, it's what you do for your country that defines you.
Isn't it obvious those who want to get rid of the Union Jack?
You conveniently waltz away from the essence of the poem Breathes There the Man... From the Lay of the Last Minstrel by Sir Walter Scott
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
'This is my own, my native land!'
They're airing discontent with the act. Having trouble reading?
One does not show discontent by flying the adversary's national flag in place of their own Nation' flag. That would be taken by any other nation to be totally disloyal.
The Tibetan or the Uighurs are not very happy with China. Can they unfurl the Free Tibet Flag or the Uighur separatist flag and the Chinese saying that its just that they are showing discontent! They will be dumped in the
Laogai and the key thrown away!
And the connection?
I thought you understood English.
My comment -
Does Internet mean that you sell your nationality, patriotism or even being a man of honour? leads you to feel that I am discussing the market place?
To help you along,
sell here means
To give up or surrender in exchange.
If Indian immigration to Australia is not limited to a few sub-groups, then Australia is more diverse than India.
Diversity of India
Diversity of Physical Features -
Racial Diversity
Linguistic Diversity - Indo-Aryan languages, Dravidian languages, Austroasiatic, Tibeto-Burman, and English too! In fact, there are as per the Indian census of 1961 recognised 1,652 different languages in India
Religious Diversity - Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Islam with the whole gamut of sects, Christianity with its whole gamut of denominations, animism, Brahmos, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, and the Bahá'à Faith, According to a 2001 census of India, the religion of 80% of the people is Hinduism. Islam is practised by around 13% of all Indians, 23 million Christians, over 19 million Sikhs, about 8 million Buddhists and about 4 million Jains
Cultural Diversity - Diversity in Music and Dance forms, dress and dressing, visual art, sculpture, martial art forms, architecture, cuisine, traditions, customs, traditions, procedure for marriages, religious festivals (of the same religion, if you will),
I might add, that the above is of the people of India and not of settlers, as in Australia.
Oh yeah, that's certainly not the vibe I got from his private messages. It's a FACT that some Indian member on this forum pushed him to defend his loyalty. It's also a FACT that some Indian member called him stupid for his ethnicity.
Really?
That is not the impression that I got. His PM to me and e mails indicated where his heart lies, and it was definitely Canada.
PM to you? Whatever for? You are some close blood brother?
Indeed, only but after pages of China bashing despite your deficit in knowledge. I say again, ask if you don't know. Or is that just the way you solicit exchange of information?
It does not require rocket science or even brains to realise the same. Surprising it seems to have gone over your head.
Can anyone fly the Flag of Tibet?
I have no deficit of knowledge. In fact, I have demolished many a Chinese posters tall claims with links and quotes and that is why nimo-cn feels I am paranoid. Do check up some old thread on China, who are the Han, its languages and its differences, cultural and ethic difference and how it was Sinicised and on the Bai Yues and so on and so forth.
I sure solicit information, but am not very partial to accepting false and contrived rigmarole, prompted by misplaced nationalism or aimed to obfuscate and deflect.
Oh you can read their minds now? Good for you!!! I await the day when you become a billionaire by predicting the next Chinese stock market crash. Why don't you ask the Chinese members on this board whether they like it or not for a start?
That you are of Chinese stock is proved. You think, dream. live and sleep money and only money. That is why you think of issues like billionaire and stock market! Now, that required no rocket science did it? One has to be merely observant and that is all that is required.