Mr Hammer wrote on Aug 24^th, 2018 at 7:31pm:

what would you say is our true culture Jasin?[/quote]

Indeed.

To say there is just 'one' culture (like they think 'Sport' is), is like there is only 'one' State representing Australia as the true Australian State.
It's a ridiculous belief to consider 'Sport' as the ONLY true representation of Australian 'culture'.

I say often that each State of Australia represents the other Regions of the world as ...a representative of 'cultural connection'.
QLD for Namerica (hence the amount of Yanks there)
NSW for Oceania (hence the amount of Kiwi's there)
VIC for Samerica (hence the amount of Chileans there)
SA for Middle-East (hence the amount of 'religious' buildings there)
NT for Asia
WA ...being BIG is divided in two: North = Europe (and is a popular tourism destination with European visitors) and South for Africa (hence a lot of Africans <+Boers> there)
Tassie is special, although mostly 'white', it seems to hold onto a very 'aboriginal' cultural past ironically, considering the genocide of aboriginals there.

So you can see - 'culture' is a varied thing here.

Also add the 'culture' of the past, is different from the future. Which is the more 'truer'? 
Well Aboriginal Males tend to hold onto their past (sometimes bitterly) more so than the females. I would put the Aboriginal females as those who take Aboriginal contribution here, far into the future more successfully than the males, especially the 'bitter' ones.

Obviously the 'culture' of the Country/Rural part of Australia is the more original, than that pumped out by the cities like Sydney & Melbourne (which the Media is more focused upon).
Saying this, the (TV) Media doesn't really have a good grasp on Australia to be honest.
Even with the Namerican Media - it seems more interested and bias to the dealings of all things Asian, European and African more than it does with Australian or Namerican way of life.
The Internet seems more focused on Australia, Namerica though, than the TV Media ...hence why 'Fake News' developed. If the TV Media can't 'make it' here in Aust & USA, then they 'fake it'.

So what would I, in personal opinion, consider as 'uniquely' Australian in 'culture'? Something that 'stands' alone?

...I would guess that our 'unique' place in the world, culturally - comes from a relation to 'water', a sense of 'deep ocean' or a voyage to 'within', down into that deep dark abyss that we all fear to look, but at some stage must and that goes for the whole world 'CURRENTLY'. Until this World looks 'within', regardless of discovering the truth of how 'dark' things have become - we will never progress, let alone make it out into the stars ...ironically.
We designed, built the submersible for James Cameron to go to the very bottom of the HADAL. We have much 'technological' superiority over other regions in regards to 'water'. The World looks to us to lead the way in this, like they look at the USA to lead the way in all things Flight, Astronomy, Space, etc (hence why they have always had the greatest 'Aviation' record).
We are the Mer-people and its our duty to bring the Water of Life to the world.
Oceania is covered in much water, but like Islands and 'Sailors', they just seem to 'skim the surface' like Surfers, rather than actually 'go down' like a Convict sent Down Under like a past sin, future redemption.

There are millions here that still don't/won't partake. That's ok, 'culture' is not meant to be fundamentally 'strict' and 'absolutism'. You can't have 10 half-backs in a Rugby Side. But for Sport, especially with Males, its something of a fading. One only has to look at the USA Music scene, where to - the females are more 'Professional', successful and less self-destructive than the males. I would even say, if Katy Perry continues her ways - she will be GREATER than Elvis (who bugger*d up) ...in the end.

So there you have it.
If Australia is going to get ahead 'culturally', it will be with 'Water'.
Of turning this 'burnt out' continent into an absolute OASIS of lush vegetation and rural progress. The 'Inland Sea' may not be a mirage or myth after all - more like a 'Dream'.

The Namerican Indians would cover themselves with Feathers to be with the 'Sky Spirit' above, then the 'real' America (in the face of the Enlightened World) appeared and drove a Space Shuttle up into the Sky and said

"Now this is how to be the Spirit in the Sky!"

 
The Aboriginals seemed to have been hampered by their lack of 'water' and the 'real' Australia will kick on, because they take it on in more ways than one.

Well, I hope this sheds some 'more' light on the subject.
But like I said, maybe its our 'culture' to take the 'light' down into the deep dark cold abyss, where the rest of the world fears to go.

Gnads wrote on Aug 25^th, 2018 at 6:11pm:


They're all moving from California which is where you find the most Aussies over there in the USA.

QLD - California (cultural connection)

...hence why I jest that the UK is a 'colony' of the USA, over 'there' in 'EUROPE'.

Gordon wrote on Aug 25^th, 2018 at 5:11pm:


Stop apologising for these people.

WE DON'T WANT THEM HERE.

Grendel wrote on Aug 25^th, 2018 at 7:10pm:


That's not nice

That culture has 10 times the IQ of any collection of muzzos, Abbos or Somalis

freediver wrote on Aug 25^th, 2018 at 2:40pm:


I dont know if human rights is a culture. Maybe it is but other cultures have them too - not all thats for sure. Im not really a history buff so dont know where human rights came from but our laws didnt come from religion the way a lot of religious people think. Not even in america. Religion was considered but wasnt the influence. If i have time i might read some harari.

Spot

Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Aug 26^th, 2018 at 6:21am:

Ah NO...  not as such.

Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Aug 26^th, 2018 at 6:21am:

You don't  know history but you know that our laws don't  come from religion the way a lot of religious people think - but how do you know the way a lot of religious people think? If you do not know history, how do you know where our laws come from?

Laws come from the concepts of the indivudual and society and their relationships. Only the West has clear concepts and traditions that give priority to the individual. These traditions come fro Judaism and Greek Judaism a.k.a Christianity.

Other cultures have human rights - an entirely Western innovation- only insofar as they have adopted Western values and legal concepts.  Your kind of ignorance of history, Western history in particular, allows the forgetting of how we really got to where we are.