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Great article in Sunday's paper correlating Queen Elizabeth II with Kim Jong-il. Mostly on the basis of neither giving interviews and both being the subjects of a cult of personality. Oh, and the technically ruling nations thing of course. Got a few giggles out of me though.
Mind you, I still find it amusing that she's Queen Elizabeth II of Australia (and NZ) as well - when, exactly, did we have Queen Elizabeth I of Australia? It would be extremely funny (and kind of irritating) if the UK went for a republic before Australia. Not that suprising, but funny. After all we've kind of got the migrant thing going, whereby we're all nostalgic about the customs and traditions of lands we've not been to in years and which have changed beyond all recognition from our recollections. Ask any second gen Italian-Australian, whose parents have just returned from Italy to find that it's no longer the 1950s there. It only was in their minds and memories.
So we cling to our traditions. Partly through love and a sense of continuity and partly cos everyone's secretly afraid that if we become a republic Eddie McGuire will be elected President. ;-)
Mind you, I still find it amusing that she's Queen Elizabeth II of Australia (and NZ) as well - when, exactly, did we have Queen Elizabeth I of Australia? It would be extremely funny (and kind of irritating) if the UK went for a republic before Australia. Not that suprising, but funny. After all we've kind of got the migrant thing going, whereby we're all nostalgic about the customs and traditions of lands we've not been to in years and which have changed beyond all recognition from our recollections. Ask any second gen Italian-Australian, whose parents have just returned from Italy to find that it's no longer the 1950s there. It only was in their minds and memories.
So we cling to our traditions. Partly through love and a sense of continuity and partly cos everyone's secretly afraid that if we become a republic Eddie McGuire will be elected President. ;-)
