Pride or Prejudice?
By Halai Brazel, a concerned Australian girl.
Having a multicultural Australian society will not hinder our growth; but prevent war, famine and prejudice. If the next generation grows up surrounded by other cultures, religions and races, they will have less (if any) prejudice than the last generation because they will have friends from all origins and backgrounds. If we all sing our National Anthem with gusto and pride there will be understanding and communication; which means less war.
In 2008, the Economist released an article explaining the reasons for war. Ideology change, specifically the subcategory of religion, is one of the biggest causes, coming to a whopping 108 wars and national conflicts in that year alone. A few wars I have found that based their battles solely on religion were The Second War of Kappel, Lebanese Civil War, The Crusades, The First and Second Sudanese Civil Wars, The German Peasants War, The Nigerian Civil War, The French Wars of Religion, The …show more content…
Hope, he uses the simile “Such savage and scarlet as no green hills dare.” in the first sentence of the last stanza, I believe he is trying to explain how our country's foundations were never supposed to see so much death. To be Australian is to be welcoming and humorous; not to rage wars upon people who do not have the same faith. To have such a mindset is naive and ignorant. We need to create beneficial political and national relationships to improve our social construct. We simply cannot do that if we neglect and reject all incoming relations with anybody that isn’t born here.
In Robert Frost’s poem ‘The Gift Outright’, he explains that “something we were withholding made us weak, until we found out it was ourselves.” He gives us this piece of wisdom to enlighten us to the fact that, as it is said in the Bible, we are not to be easily angered; our greatest weakness was that we were not being who we truly are: a kind, generous
By Halai Brazel, a concerned Australian girl.
Having a multicultural Australian society will not hinder our growth; but prevent war, famine and prejudice. If the next generation grows up surrounded by other cultures, religions and races, they will have less (if any) prejudice than the last generation because they will have friends from all origins and backgrounds. If we all sing our National Anthem with gusto and pride there will be understanding and communication; which means less war.
In 2008, the Economist released an article explaining the reasons for war. Ideology change, specifically the subcategory of religion, is one of the biggest causes, coming to a whopping 108 wars and national conflicts in that year alone. A few wars I have found that based their battles solely on religion were The Second War of Kappel, Lebanese Civil War, The Crusades, The First and Second Sudanese Civil Wars, The German Peasants War, The Nigerian Civil War, The French Wars of Religion, The …show more content…
Hope, he uses the simile “Such savage and scarlet as no green hills dare.” in the first sentence of the last stanza, I believe he is trying to explain how our country's foundations were never supposed to see so much death. To be Australian is to be welcoming and humorous; not to rage wars upon people who do not have the same faith. To have such a mindset is naive and ignorant. We need to create beneficial political and national relationships to improve our social construct. We simply cannot do that if we neglect and reject all incoming relations with anybody that isn’t born here.
In Robert Frost’s poem ‘The Gift Outright’, he explains that “something we were withholding made us weak, until we found out it was ourselves.” He gives us this piece of wisdom to enlighten us to the fact that, as it is said in the Bible, we are not to be easily angered; our greatest weakness was that we were not being who we truly are: a kind, generous