I 100% understand. We live in south Louisiana. My parents' first language was French. When they started school, students would have their hands rapped with a ruler if they spoke their native language. For a long time, Cajuns were made to feel less. Happy that this has changed.
It's sort of heading in the other direction, though. The young people that leave for the mainland, or go to one of the big cities for uni end up looking down on the rest of Tasmanians as bogan and backwards. Our university system is full of woke professors and university culture here leads invariably to a bunch of wokies running around with dunning-kruger effect, thinking they are experts on progressive political issues. I'm not against higher education, obvious, but our higher education produces a predictable sort of programming. I used to be one of these people myself.
I was a crazy liberal as well, lol. Then, the real world slapped me in the face. Happened to a lot of us. It's easy when Mom and Dad are paying the bills to say, Let the government pay for this or that. Once you realize the gov't is using your hard earned money to fund all of this, it becomes a whole new ballgame!
I 100% understand. We live in south Louisiana. My parents' first language was French. When they started school, students would have their hands rapped with a ruler if they spoke their native language. For a long time, Cajuns were made to feel less. Happy that this has changed.
It's sort of heading in the other direction, though. The young people that leave for the mainland, or go to one of the big cities for uni end up looking down on the rest of Tasmanians as bogan and backwards. Our university system is full of woke professors and university culture here leads invariably to a bunch of wokies running around with dunning-kruger effect, thinking they are experts on progressive political issues. I'm not against higher education, obvious, but our higher education produces a predictable sort of programming. I used to be one of these people myself.
I was a crazy liberal as well, lol. Then, the real world slapped me in the face. Happened to a lot of us. It's easy when Mom and Dad are paying the bills to say, Let the government pay for this or that. Once you realize the gov't is using your hard earned money to fund all of this, it becomes a whole new ballgame!