The little girl who wouldn’t stand for the Australian Anthem
The uproar that a 9 year old little girl has caused for refusing to stand for the Australian National Anthem is enormous.
I see both sides when it comes to the opinion on her decision, however to think at 9 years of age a little girl is standing up for what she believes in, is what interested me the most.
You might agree with her reasoning you might not, but before you are quick to judge her, I’d ask you the question would you have the guts to sit down while hundreds of your peers are standing, in order to make your point on something you really whole heartedly believe in? Yeah, Na.
Didn’t we just see Colin Kaepernick’s new Nike campaign, “Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything” go viral after the he infamously knelt on one knee for the National Anthem in protest of what he deemed wrongdoings against African Americans and minorities in the United States?
At 9 years of age I was struggling to remember the lyrics of the anthem let alone decipher the meaning of them in order make a social stand. However, I do recall being busy gathering signatures because I noticed the kids who had lunch time detention weren’t allowed to eat, and that really upset me, so I am seeing a little glimmer of myself my inner warrior in this girl. She is showing empathy for other people, and clearly making her point, something many adults struggle to do.
Did you notice she actually does attend school, she does wear her uniform too, so they don’t appear to be people that have no respect for the rules. There has been plenty of judgement toward the parents online, but I really can’t see what their sinister motive could be? They are allowing her to be a free thinker. Isn’t that part of the anthem “when we are young and free” ? They are standing by their child no matter what, and in a World that can be at times so brutal, I think they have their priorities in order.
What concerns me the most in all this, is that grown adults think it’s fine to get online and debate in the most hateful of ways. We even have politicians posting online about it like it’s the worst thing in the World, seriously have you seen how ‘that lot’ express their views? Far more offensively than this 9 year old little girl has done, aren’t they busy enough ripping each other to shreds than to start on a kid? What a joke.
If you come across this story online could I encourage you to pause, and perhaps sit and think about others, that is after all what this little girl was trying to do.
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