Which goes to show that the arguments in favour of maintaining the traditional Aussie view of "what it means to be an Australian" can also be applied to equivalent people of other nations, including the above Turks, without somehow ostracising them in the process.
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OTOH we could, if we were so inclined, challenge the pbuttage quoted above, by demands to to know "What is a Turk?"; then go on to show how those defenders of Gallipoli were merely a fragment of the most recent mbutt movement of people in that notoriously unstable region; how they didn't speak the language of whoever was there before them, how their religion was not indigenous to that country, how their sense of nationality had been blatantly "invented" for the political expedience of others in the very recent past..
But, of course, we don't.
Nevertheless it has become fashionable in certain allegedly learned circles to use the same arguments for deriding the true-blue Aussie's traditional view of Australia which are incongruously cited as proof of exemplary worthiness in just about anyone else, (eg) the cited Turks above.
It is easy to see that such an Copernican viewpoint (which treats the observer's own nation as somehow uniquely different while all their evidence points to the opposite conclusion) is a product of the inadequate education of one or more generations of Australians. Surely it is just as easy to deduce that the underlying motivation behind such mandated re-evaluation of some alleged propensity of Australians to involve themselves in war must by definition be as "anti-Australian" as denying similar truths about Turks would reflexively be buttumed "anti-Turk".
The question is not "why do Australians hate themselves?", but who and why is determined to re-educate them against all the laws of rationality into believing that they should? What goal, other than the break-up of Australia's sense of nationhood and long-term survival could be their ultimate aim?
Those responsible for hijacking Australian education as a means of inducing future generations of Aussies to hate their nation and its history are nothing less than traitors. The power struggles which now propagate their unpleasant womaniness and backbiting through all levels of our society with such cumulative ill-effect have to be stopped.
