Is Australia turning into an American State?

Submitting the same essay twice is a waste of the reader's time and will not earn you an extra 350 points.

When making such inflammatory claims, it is best to use sources to back yourself up, because otherwise you just come across as some joe schmo with an opinion. Also, I think you do a lot of generalizing, and that is NEVER good in an argumentative essay. Specifics, specifics, specifics!

Politics is a tricky issue here, but I'm thinking that you are digging too far by simply stating that politics and culture are two fates interwined....I'm an Australian, and hell proud of it. We have a culture which is truly individual from the rest of the world...we have a past which is a big ugly mess....and we have a future which is being formed. Future could be beatiful, yet it mite be totally different from our wildest imaginations...something even George Lucus didn't think of. What your saying is that this is ruining our identity. Okay, we're changing, I agree. But think about our past? Our horrible past, that past that will always stain our history. We had to change from that past didn't we? So we did, and there were people whining about it, just like you are rite now. BUT, do you or do you not agree that our present status, is a hell of alot better than 50 years ago. Like I'm saying that identity was "uniquely Australian" back then aswell, but most of us hate it right now....think in 50 years...where we could be! There is soo much that we can do in this world, but this whole process is part of change, and we're all changing, all we gotta do is make sure we changing for the better.

Now to address your main point here, are we becoming Americans? I have to agree. But then again we are becoming alot like the rest of the world aswell. A question of identity is hard to answer. I mean what is our identity? Is it Aboriginals, Brits in a desert, or as you simply put it, the good ol beer gut man on his saturday bbq, what about our steriotype...that rides his Kanga to school everyday wearing cork hats, whilst saying crickey and hunting crocidles like our good friend Steve Erwin?

Its all an illusion, we're a collective group of individuals, you might like the beer gut man, but I'm sorry mate most people I know hate him. We're a nation advancing, moving through the system, we don't just have bbq every saturday and we don't sit there and drink beer all day. We live in cities cause we like it, we visit farms almost as if they're tourist attractions, we don't need to live in the past. If we have to move foreward taking other countries on our wings, so be it. Our culture will become a bit more American, a bit more Asian, a bit more British, and Bit more of everything. The goverment prior to looking to America for support in conflict looked towards Britain. And look where that landed us in Turkey? Commanded by a bunch of assholes and slaughtered by MG's. America has its own problems, like guns, rape, violence, and list will keep going...but they are cultureal issues not political issues. Your arguement is purely based on politics, it doesn't show a scrap of evidence for us moving culturally. All those problems earlier stated are problems that stay in a country. You wont suddenly find that kinda domestic violence arrive in Australia. We have things like welfare, integrity, we have values...sorry if I'm being harsh to you American, but its true. We have our own problems but they don't compare to you guys. For example, our record of gun violence will stay clean cause we have gun laws, something the American government in thier classic texan syle aint thought up yet. But that's an arguemtn that'll lay within American hands, I'm staying outta it.

Essentially What I'm saying is that change happens, you may agree or not, but it'll happen. All that you can hope is that you look back on the past in 50 years instead of saying "The Golden Years" you'll be saying how violent and cruel humanity was.