erawamai said:
Would you like the flag if the Australian socialists used it at every opportunity to advance their cause? Or even mathmite who puts a big Aussie flag in his signature and then proceedes to spout off racism and then call it nationalism. Nationalism has nothing to do with race. Unless of course someone wants to define nationalism by race. But if that person were to do so it would be overtly racist.
...in any event what does the Australian flag stand for that pings you deep down in your nationalistic heart? Many of the people in Australia probably don't know what it means...and if they do know what it stands for they probably don't understand how those things work either. Ask an average nationalistic Australian about the ins and outs of federation. Most wouldn't have a clue.
Most people would be appalled at what consider to be an abuse of the flag, not the flag itself, iamaware.
You of all people should know that a flag is nothing more than a symbol and that symbols mean many different things to different people, no matter the original meaning that is still evident to those with some idea as to what the flag and its various components (the federation star, the southern cross and the union jack) actually represent.
At times you are far more ignorant than you clearly consider yourself to be, iamaware. That, or you are just an elitist who is unwilling to make such an admission. For the record, I consider myself to be an elitist (one who is often ignorant, too), but unlike you I don't shy away from such a fact.