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[Jul. 19th, 2005|12:36 pm] |
Been reading how scotland is the greatest little country
growing up in NZ, this has a very familiar ring to it
you can't both be the greatest, besides I'm sure Iceland, Leichenstein, some centeral american countries and varoius islands all say the same.
But to go with what I know
maybe they should define themselves as greatest little country in each hempsphere
I would also like to argue the definition of a country in this context as well
you need a passport to get in and out of nz, we have our own embassy's, the crown made us responsible for other nations (you can't count the orkneys and uist here, sorry), the people we pay taxes to are the ones who spend it. We don't get pocket money from Westminister.
I know that the ferverent nationalistic scottish temperment (not a turn on guys) would love to argue/deny this one, but frankly the sooner you admit to it the sooner you can get over it and get on with becoming a sheep republic (we don't have enough bannanas to be a yellow fruit republic). then life will get interesting we could have a little olympics every few years to win the title of greatest little country, with human rights records, mutlicultural attitudes, drinking habits, economic flexiability, tourism, film stars per head of population and all the other things we promote ourselves on as events
NZ can just give itself the sheep shearing awards and scotland the whiskey making one.
The others despite the characterisations of the scots in general are actually wide open. |
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Jo there already are tiny-nations olympics: http://www.andorra2005.ad/en/ we always do quite well on those. But yeah I am very familiar with the greatest little country rethoric. All good things counted per capita but bad ones in total etc.
I don't know... I was bought up to think Scotland was wonderful. :D
I was quite a lot older before the NZ patriot education kicked in. | |
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