I am afraid that you have just stepped very hard on my cultural toes.  ANZAC
day is a most religious day here in Australia.  As is Melbourne Cup Day
(yes, we have a holiday to watch the race), the Queens Birthday (there are
two religions here - republican and monarchist) and Australia day.
Watch what you term as religion.
Adrienne Leith
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> Sent:         Friday, 18 September 1998 5:23 AM
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> Subject:      Re: patrick boylan's email on multi-cultural things
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> >
> > so today i will be the pedant.
> >
> > > (about 45% of the 270,000 population were
> > > from first or second generation immigrant families from around 80
> >         countries of origin in all five continents)
> >
> > "all five continents"??  how many continents?  there are either six or
> seven
> > (depending whether antarctica gets a mention).  so, which continent has
> >
> > maria berry
> > museum victoria
> > australia
>
> Sorry I will support P.Boylan in his count of continents, in my book there
> are
> Africa, America, Asia,Europe and Oceania. But then I am rather old
> fashion. The
> natives religions of Antartica, Oceania, (whom do penguins pray to?),
> America
> and Oceania (this includes Australia,I believe) are probably not strongly
> represented in Leicester, which is probably why Patrick did not mention
> their
> festivals. (Do Australians have festivals?) (OOps sorry, I forgot ANZAC
> Day,)
> (oops again I forgot it was not a religious festival).  >
>
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