>One of the greatest and most important countries of the Modern Era
>Achievements are completely overshadowed
What has caused this?
>One of the greatest and most important countries of the Modern Era. >Achievements are completely overshadowed
>One of the greatest and most important countries of the Modern Era
>Achievements are completely overshadowed
What has caused this?
They invented the internet.
>australia
>accomplishments
Name 10
Modern ballox box and poll booth democratic voting
Refinement of penicillin into a commercial medical product
First flight (before the Wright brothers)
Invented the tank
Refrigeration
Largely winning the Pacific, North Africa and Mediterranean theatres in WW2
Movies
Wi-fi
Google maps
Pacemakers
Not too shabby
stop sniffing glue
Pom seethe
Aren't you people supposed to be good at shitposting?
>lmao
>an Australian and an Englishman, working out of England, travel to America to get the American government to actually mass produce
>unreliable witnesses say a Kiwi flew 9 months before the Wrights, in New Zealand
>An Aussie, concurrently with the British, came up with a tank design that was never used
>granted
>implying Australia was the primary factor in any of those theaters
>Mad Max, Saw, Crocodile Dundee, and Gallipoli as crowning achievements
>implying it wasn't the Dutch
>Company founded by Danes, but operated out of Sydney
>granted
Australians are truly the most powerful race
>Mad Max, Saw, Crocodile Dundee, and Gallipoli as crowning achievements
No we literally created the movie and the industry, the first ever feature film was Australian
>didn't invent the kinetoscope or cinematograph
>didn't create the first short film
>didn't create the first feature film
You did, however, create the first narrative feature film, so kudos there I guess.
Even if some of those were true Australian didn't even exist as a nation when they were invented, i.e British Inventions by British nationals.
>Australian didn't even exist as a nation
Australian identity and culture existed decades before Federation, even our Republican movement is older than the current state is.
And yet only British nationals existed, argue with the facts till you're blue in the face
>Nationality = identity
Behold, a moron!
i'm not the one who conflated them first you MORON
>Behold, a moron!
the irony
>i'm not the one who conflated them first
How exactly?
Because I din't confalte nationality with identity, merely argued against it when identity was put forward?
>Because I din't confalte nationality with identity
No I didn't. I'm literally arguing for the exact opposite.
>Refrigeration
I'm sure people had cellars before Australia was even discovered
Because they're associated with the British Empire, a nation whose achievements transcend everything it has ever achieved
>invented the tank
Lmao the French did that dumbass
This literally reminds me of one of those black achievements lists posted during black history month.
Except this one is true
The point is that the "achievements" are extremely weak and inflated. As other anons have pointed out, half of them aren't even real. They even had the audacity to claim Australians invented movies and airplanes
I think the British beat the French out of the gate, even though the French ultimately produced way more tanks in WWI.
>They even had the audacity to claim Australians invented movies
This one isn't exactly incorrect. The first full length movie was an Australian one based on Ned Kelly's gang.
The Kelly movie is the first feature-length narrative/fiction film, clocking in at 60 minutes. It was preceded in feature length by the Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight by a decade, which had a 100 minute run time
I've seen most of these claimed to be invented by black people.
A failed rebellion against Emu overlords and getting btfo'd at Gallipolli are not achievements
morons will be like 'your country hasn't achieved anything' when theirs hasn't either
>You can't say X is bad because your country/relatives/personality is also X
peek midwit. People can say whatever they want.
Now apologize for AC/DC.
Only if you apologise for rap
Why should we apologise for pure hard rock? Now go listen to The Angels.
Why would you expect a 100 year old country of 20 million to have achievements?
Why do poms always seethe whenever Australian accomplishments are brought up? You really want to keep us down don't you?
>A Scot inventing artificial refrigeration in Australia 1854 was Australian
sorry pal Australians didn't exist in 1854, only British nationals.
>Australians didn't exist in 1854
How can you make such a stupid statement with such confidence?
I don't think you understand how nationality and colonys work
I don't think you understand how identity works or Australian history
Identify as what the hell you like in the 1850 there were only Abbos and British in Austrlia
>What people think about themselves doesn't matter because I said so
lmao
"Until 1949 there was no such thing as an Australian citizen. Before that, anyone born or naturalised (made a citizen) in Australia was a British subject. People travelling overseas were issued with British passports."
>NATIONALITY IS IDENTITY AND CULTURE
Guess Ranjesh Indian Nationalist is 100% British because of his citizenship. Absolutely nothing else to him
this triggers the colonys
imagine having less history than my grandparents restroom
Citizenship literally means frick all to anything
I'm an Australian and I've lived in Aus all my life
If I moved to Mexico and got a Mexican citizenship, I wouldn't walk around telling born Mexicans how I was just as culturally and nationalistically Mexican as them
That's delusional
Australia is different from Britain, and always has been.
>Australia is different from Britain, and always has been.
lol
Let me guess, you also think Britain isn't full of mutts who totally weren't colonized and built upon by Saxons, Normans, Danes, Dutch and Germans?
You never said where you were from coward
>you also think Britain isn't full of mutts who totally weren't colonized and built upon by Saxons, Normans, Danes, Dutch and Germans?
No? what's that got to do with laughing at "Australia is different from Britain, and always has been." which is one of the most moronic statements i've seen in a long time
How exactly is the statement wrong?
>Australia is different from Britain, and always has been
>How exactly is the statement wrong?
Because Australian identity is made up of more than just Brits. We had Scots, Irish, Germans, Blacks and many others as original convict settlers and in subsequent migration waves.
We're not just British, just like how Brits are not just Britons.
Adding onto this
Thinking that a culture doesn't change halfway across the globe isolated in the middle of a massive desert continent with a large population whose history are outcasts is one of the most moronic statements I've seen in a long time.
Shows a very shallow understanding of history and anthropology. Maybe read up a bit hey?
>Thinking that a culture doesn't change halfway across the glob
Culture changes a few miles down the road you spastic
Okay? Thanks for agreeing with my argument.
>Thanks for agreeing with my argument.
It's a moronic argument, almost as moronic as saying "Australia is different from Britain, and always has been"
>Culture changes down the road
>But Australia isn't different from Britain
Do you hear yourself? Frick this thread you c**ts are braindead
You don't even know what you're arguing anymore, the mere fact that you're conflating Britain and British and think that they're mutually exlcusive shows how little you understand.
>Because Australian identity is made up
you finally admit it, thank you
>Doesn't read the argument
>Resorts to a shitpost
I'll accept your concession /thread
Why are you Brits so triggered by Australian identity and culture? It makes you freak the frick out. Do you feel threatened or something? Have you ever actually been to Australia?
Bongland is in a state of disrepair and his only recourse is to tarnish the legacy of the colonies. Canadians do a good job of proving their brains are all rot, Kiwis are busy pozzing themselves and Indians are Indian. We're the only ones not ruining our own name beyond the alcoholism.
Every identity is made up.
It's a hyperbole. Point is Australia is an artificial, historylet nation
>if someone makes fun of me, they must be British
Post real accomplishments and the teasing would cease
Where are you from?
Don't even bother if you're from the US lol
You haven't accomplished much that hasn't been stolen from other inventors or outright scrubbed the history of
Still waiting on actual Australian accomplishments
They bantz master mmkay, chud?
Imagine feeling this threatened as a Brit by the boys down under
Blood brothers btw
I forget, is that the flag of the big one or the little one with two islands?
>still has British scum flag in corner of their own flag
Australians are slaves. Why haven’t you freed yourselves yet? Be a strong independent nation like Ireland
they unironically can't think of a better flag because they have no history
You're legitimately mentally ill
Do you have anything to back up what you're saying other than "it just isn't?"
Fricking schizo
the fact that you take the bait everytime shows that deep down you know I'm right. Otherwise you wouldn't need to cope so hard
>Lol i-it was just bait all along! haha...
Nah frick off. This seems like some weird projection of British nationalism. Scared that we're going to leave the Commonwealth or something? Sorry mate, its happening.
You've never been to Australia, that much is obvious. Read a history book champ, this isn't /misc/ or IQfy. You'd find it real hard to back up any of your wild claims.
I oppose the republican movement because I know this fricking eyesore would become our new flag.
Australians are ethnic British you moron. Also you're brown LOL
Gay
>One of the greatest and most important countries of the Modern Era
It is?
Would've been a magical as frick place to inhabit nobody would've known what the frick was going on.
And there you have Australians creation no fricks giveth or taketh, gold too
Australia is a Chinese client state authoritarian shithole that LARPs being a liberal democracy.
Nothing you just said was true
Sounds more like the US
Cool story John Chang Smith Long.
Why do Australians seethe endlessly about Britain? It's bizarre
Have you actually read the thread? It's literally the opposite
We only seethe about Britain when they beat us in cricket. The current state of the English cricket team means we will not be doing that any time soon.
Why do you fricking losers post your bullshit here? Frickoff and die.
>One of the greatest and most important countries of the Modern Era
Ehhh?