So all the happiness and body image accepting is a fake in Australia??
I'm not sure how to read this but perhaps I was a bit cryptic. It was about smoking. Everybody knows that smoking is bad for our health. Our problem is that we are not allowed to come to this conclusion by ourselves, we HAVE to be told. I find this insulting because it assumes that I'm an idiot.
Those who picked up the habit when they were young and don't have the willpower to quit, will be discriminated against in many nasty little ways. Oh, here's one: At Aussie airports there are no smoking lounges - fly into most countries in Europe, there will be a lounge. Japan, Korea, Singapore, Dubai and any other airport will have a lounge. The smaller, not so posh ones like KL Malaysia, Jakarta, anywhere in Asia, including India, anywhere in the Middle East - I think you get the drift - there are lounges for smokers. Not here in OZ though, because we do the right thing.
About airports in the UK I don't know, haven't been there in a while, but as we can see, Britains are allowed to smoke if they choose to do so. Here in OZ, we pride ourselves that we live in a free country - it's a myth. We are told how to think, what to believe, what to say and what to do. Innovation and the propagation of new ideas is not encouraged.
We have to major political parties. Most adults were, it is fair to say, born into the fellowship of one of those parties. Gramps was a Liberal, dad was a Liberal and I am Liberal and my sons and their sons will be Liberals. If you dare to contemplate moving to the other side of politics, you'll be ostracised. But I am rambling.
Surely anyone will be able to relate to this: Here in OZ and the UK and a few other 'enlightened' countries, if you want to ride a bicycle, you must wear a helmet, it's the law. In the Netherlands where
everybody rides a bicycle there is no such law. Why? Are Dutch politicians too daft to legislate a law that forces cyclists to wear a helmet? Do Dutch health funds have too much money, enough to splurge out on preventable head-wounds? Do Dutch citizens have harder craniums? Is it because they eat more cheese? Do the Dutch have more intelligence? I don't know.
What I do know is that the Dutch government gives its citizens at least some freedom to make their own decisions.
Back to political correctness, if we do everything exactly the way we are told to, we are politically correct... nobody wants to stand out as the only one who doesn't comply.
