December 14, 2006

Williamson on Aussie culture divide

Excellent essay by Australian playwright David Williamson really captures the essence of the cultural divide in this country. That ‘us vs them’ feeling that you get from PM John Howard, or that queasy feeling you get when you realise that many people won’t even think of reading this essay – or any essay. You wonder where people get their opinions about other people, when their lives are constrained by limited education, poverty or a sameness-culture that looks inward. What you don’t know about – or haven’t met – you may fear, or despise… and you get one of those tingles of fear when caught as David was in a cross-cultural divide. It’s in the SMH… highly recommended…‘Ordinary’ Australians have much to lose if the values of compassion and humanity are cast aside in the tribal stoush between the hard right and the soft left. By David Williamson.

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