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Message: [QUOTE="roo-ted, post: 3040287, member: 9464"] I’m indigenous and I have no problem with the anthem besides it being boring. The main reason some indigenous people don’t like it is because when it was written aboriginal people weren’t “young and free” meaning that the anthem wasn’t written with them in mind, even when being the land owners. It was written more for the “white invaders” who had destroyed their families and culture. That one line “we are young and free” seems to be the main sore spot. Not to mention the second verse talks about people coming from across the sea. Again I don’t have much of a problem but if you take into account the destruction, murder and rape that went on during those years the song is pretty much a symbolism of everything they hated. I don’t blame some people for not wanting to belt it out with pride [/QUOTE]

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