Australia doesn’t actually. No kings, queens, prime ministers or premiers are hung on school walls. Maybe an Australian flag here and there.
It’s not standard at least, none of the schools I went to did. The monarchy is most obvious when using cash
Although we all learn about our system of government, including the monarchy and we all (Victorians) go on a school trip to Canberra in our last year of primary school.
Also Marco mentioned First Nations people. I was watching the news this morning and the current Australian PM is a republican BUT he has also said he won’t attempt a referendum on an Australian republic yet because there are more important issues. He wants constitutional recognition of Australia’s First Nations people first because it’s more important and brings materials benefit to Australia.
He clearly is planning on being re-elected if he wants to make 2 changes to the Australian constitution, even 1 is no easy feat.
The government is better off focusing on things that will improve the lives of people, including the indigenous that were largely treated terribly in the past.
Yeah, probably, for now. As long as there are no scandals and the monarchy/GG continue to have no real impact, I guess can continue to basically ignore it
Only British are able to show tradition and symbolism with such pomp and glamor. How coffin was carried into cathedral. And singing songs in church. Simple marvelous
5000 years of Chinese culture and Chinese are far from British high culture. Put it lightly burning plastics at funeral doesn’t impress me
I’m replying to you since it is connected, you might not know, in Italy we don’t have any portrait of the President of the Republic hung in public schools prominently, maybe one in the principal’s office. But the portrait of the president is hung and shown in all public offices (like at our “embassy” here).
Pictures of Presidents of the council of the Ministers are not shown anywhere, also because we would need to change them every 6 months almost😂
Also, very sad, we have not had any message on our passports asking to be let without any hindrance at so on for a very long time, I think since the EU common style of passports was introduced in the 80s (when we also shifted from a green cover passport to burgundy, the passport was light blue during the kingdom).
I specifically mentioned late colonial Kenya and Malaya for a reason. They are not places only with “crimes [committed] 100-300 years ago”; they are placed with very serious crimes committed while QE II was on the throne.
I understand you may not be familiar with this history. It’s surprising to me, however, that in your full-throated defence of the monarchy you seem not to care. If you change you mind, you might have a look at books such as the Pulitzer Prize winning Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya.
I fully agree with you that Canadians need to take responsibility for bad sh&t they have done in that nation. What a coincidence, however, that the White Supremacy I outlined in the case of Canada seems to have marked all these British ex-colonies (Canada, Australia, and beyond). Wonder why. I am sure there’s no underlying pattern . . . Wait, there are underlying patterns? What do we do then?
You certainly brought cuisine standards to the table, Mr Rubber.
And obviously, the British and the Canadians cannot compete on a culinary level with the land where most foods are air blasted into slurry and delivered via a nozzle.
Mine too. That’s because the upper classes that supported the Empire took most of the money from it.
As Hugh Trevor-Roper replied when asked whether imperialism was profuable, “It was for the imperialists.”
Immigrants began to come into Britain in the 1950s because the Tory government brought them into the country due to a labour shortage (see “Windrush generation”). I suppose they could have increased wages, but the capitalists and industrialists wanted to keep wages down and profits up. When there was a surge in unemployment in the late 60s and 70s, racists advocated “kicking the darkies out”, no matter how many years they’d lived and worked (or been born) there.
