Today is Remembrance Day here in Britain. At home we
honour the veterans on Anzac Day in April.
My father and his father served in the Essex Regiment
in WWI and and my maternal grandfather served in the merchant
navy in WWII.
There have been poppy sellers on the stations for
weeks now. And I read a newspaper article that said in some areas the poppy
sellers would need an escort because culturally some were against honouring the
occasion.
Hang on a minute there. In the book that The Man is
studying to sit the exam about Life in The UK, this day is discussed as being
important.
Now that really gets me when incomers to a country,
not just this one, don’t approve of the traditions of the new country. Along
with the rights of immigrants comes the responsibility to respect the
traditions observed in that country.
Here in Britain and in New Zealand too, many
different religions and cultures live side by side, and a few diehards think
that they can impose the traditions of the incomers over those of the country
they have come to. So just who do those people think they are?
There are mosques and synagogues, temples and
churches of lots of different religions in this country. Britain doesn’t say they
cannot observe your own traditions, so why do those fundamentalists think that
they can do just that.
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