Quote ="Mintball"First of all, intelligent, educated and literate people know that 'history' and 'culture' are not, in such a context, proper nouns and do not require capital letters.
But then again, they also know that 'there' and 'their' are not synonyms (big word - look it up in a dictionary).
Australia has an appalling record on racism, so don't try to play that card. It makes you look sillier than ever. And just what have Australia's contributions to history and culture been - apart from Rolf Harris, Dame Edna, [iNeighbours[/i, the inability to win or lose at sport with anything approaching grace, dignity and class, and the racist, religious fundamentalist that is Mel Gibson?
Any Shakespeare? A Chaucer, Dickens, Hardy, Austen, Keats, Byron, Shelley, Pinter, Golding, Brönte, Gaskell, Trollope, Defoe, Marlowe or Bennett? *
Your Elgar, Holst or Vaughan Williams?
Australia's Turner or Constable or Stubbs or Freud or Bacon or Blake?
And that you have to ask the question of what people "do" with culture is indicative simply of your own ignorance of the subject.
* I'll give you Peter Carey - he's not bad at all. But then you did foist Germaine Greer on us as an illustration of your intellectual might. And you've produced a couple of good actors - Hugo Weaving and Geffrey Rush - but you haven't overwhelmed the cultural world.'"
Is this your view as a Moderator of this Forum or your personal opinion?
Or is that the same thing? Moderators opinions and comments are backed by RLFANS?
I await your reply.
