Society/Culture Should Diwali, the Indian cultural festival, be made a public holiday across Australia?

[Cmarsh]

Calls for Diwali to be made a public holiday across Australia

Australia's Indian community is renewing calls for the Hindu festival of Diwali to be recognised as a publ...

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I guess the question is has it made enough of an impact in Australia's cultural landscape to be considered for a public holiday? Would it be accepted as such?

 

[adammania9]

They settled did they?
I’m not suggesting anything, you’re the one interpreting a brutal colonisation of a people and landmass, already occupied for tens of thousands of years was a mere “settling”.
Your ancestors built an amazing country from scratch did they?
What did your ancestors build, again, I’m asking you a very direct question here?
What personally did your ancestors build?
You continue to evade this challenge to your claims, cough up or be outed as an historically inept numpty…..

Yes correct they did settle, as did many others.

My ancestors weren’t solely responsible for building every school and hospital in the country if that’s what you’re trying to get to as some sort of trump card. I have teachers, principals, railroad builders, firemen and car manufacturers amongst my ancestry.

 

[carltonchelsea]

Yes correct they did settle, as did many others.

My ancestors weren’t solely responsible for building every school and hospital in the country if that’s what you’re trying to get to as some sort of trump card. I have teachers, principals, railroad builders, firemen and car manufacturers amongst my ancestry.

They colonised a land already occupied in the millions peoples and tens of thousands of years, they didn’t settle, they violently invaded and colonised.
Lets be jurisprudence on these matters shall we?
Facts are important.
Strawmanning my position won’t do you any favours, or perhaps I didn’t elucidate my argument concisely enough?
No, I asked you twice, in fact, what did your direct ancestors build exactly, name the infrastructure that your family heritage took part in its development, design and build?
It’s a fairly straightforward process in question and answer, assuming we can both adhere to the laws of debate and logic, I would have thought?
If your ancestry is listed, we can find out what they did exactly yeah?
I can fairly do it with much of mine back to an ancestor of German descent to the Heidelberg region of Melbourne, we have letters and reciprocity in form, under glass, protected!

I also have all of those same folks you much appreciate as a part of my ancestry, that built this society we are lucky enough to be a part of, in fact my great grandmother on my mothers side was an indigenous woman, she taught Sunday school in a baptist church in Fitzroy in the early 1900’s, apparently she was quite well loved and admired for her gifts of recitation of the gospel to children, we actually have her Bible upon retirement, it’s a treasured family heirloom.
I have strayed somewhat, so you’re suggesting that railroad labour, principality in schools, fire services, teaching and car labour manufacturing in your ancestral bloodline is equivocal to the model by which a country should be determined by, given a people and culture was prior to it’s inception?
This I think, is my main contention to your claims.
Even though your anecdotal ancestry experience is subject to questioning and analysis by the lack of empirical evidence you’ve been abject in providing, I’ll allow you to conform to a non standard criteria on this, one time, what luck hey?
Well well, what matters it?
My father was a part of the group that replaced the conundrum of planetary harmful CFC’s to the Ozone Layer in industrial air conditioning, by his own admission, his greatest achievement and contribution to humanity, cost his company many millions in administration and process, but a fair achievement regardless.
I have to thank him for that, a life well lived and deserved on the plaudits in doing so, but he’s still a complete arseh*le in many respects to my family life.(I can provide evidence of this, it’s all online these days).
What did your family do exactly?
Your list of achievements in societal development is rather underwhelming I must admit.
Surely you can post something of value more than mere personal anecdotes and “trust me bro” evidence?
So far we have not much as far as you’ve claimed your ancestral status as to “building this country” apart from a cupla folks doing menial tasks for community.
Early hominids did the same, you do understand that we are highly evolved apes yes, prone to our ancestral deficiencies, both physical and mental?

Further, I’m not suggesting your family haven’t helped our country
I know what it’s like, I have a 19 year old son that’s completely embarrassed by me, a 13 year old daughter that loves every second we spend together.
Horrible parenting ancestral dichotomy.
But I make it work.
Your ancestors are no more important to the Australian way of life than the next wave of immigrants, if you don’t, YOU ARE THE ****ING PROBLEM, and I will see to it that your ideology fails, violently if necessary!
Capiche?