Does any nation on earth sincerely ask itself what some guy from 250 years ago would think about said country's modern state or is that only a thing that Americans do? Is there any other equivalent?
Does any nation on earth sincerely ask itself what some guy from 250 years ago would think about said country's modern state or is that only a thing that Americans do? Is there any other equivalent?
Australians, no. Nothing equivalent, despite our general chuddiness. A lot of our place names are early coloniser's names?
It's engrained but it's not known in the same way the US seems to be. For somewhere with mandatory voting, we can really be a lot less politically engaged
I despair at aussie "disengaged" culture. (that said, I have no idea who wrote our constitution or was our first PM, something that would pretty hard to accomplish in the US)
uhhh Barton. Cook. Curtin. Kelly.
Ned kelly was pretty cool, I thought
Ned Kelly never had a "such is life" tattoo so he's cool in my books
That said, I cannot imagine someone pulling up anyone else on a piece of policy saying "That's not what Ned Kelly meant" or "That's not what Lord Fremantle would do". America feels almost unique in that regard. Maybe Bolivians and Bolivar or Cubans and Castro?