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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It raises my heckles and annoys the shit out of me. It's not the hill I'll die on though.

It's also a dreadful dirge, which in recent years has been "jazzed up" and now it is even more grating to he ears, as well as nationalist B/S.

It's also sung indigenous language version first then English which riles up the racists so it has it's upsides.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Your anthem is a dreadful dirge you say, is it also a bloody war chant too?

Because ours, in the first part that everybody knows, has enemy soldiers slitting the throat of our spouse and children as we hold them, and us taking arms so our fields are watered with impure blood. Then, many more verses about foreigners coming to enslave us and the need to fight to the death.

Also a nice, hopeful late addition in which our children have to vow over our crumbled remains that they will avenge our deaths or follow us in the tomb.

At least they don't require that kids sing it in school though.