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The ethics of English colonialists v others is potentially a long debate.My stance on Australia Day is probably controversial.
I don't see why Aboriginals are whinging and complaining and carrying on. This whole "Invasion Day" rubbish is laughable. None of them, nor their grandparents and great grandparents would have been impacted by it, and they are most certainly better off now than they would have been.
EVERY country and continent has been colonised, so it was a matter of WHEN not IF. That is a fact.
Either Aboriginals would have had to advance their civilisation to a colonised point they could defend "their land", or (as history shows), someone else was going to move in and colonise it for them.
As luck may have it, it was the English, whom (despite it getting messy), it could have been far worse as many other colonising/travelling ethnicities at the time simply would have completely eradicated every single Aboriginal on sight and claimed the land their own.
I firmly believe if not for western intervention and colonisation, they would have gone the way of the Incans/Aztecs (which scientists now believe got wiped out due to a massive salamonella outbreak).
Australia Day isn't as much about celebrating the invasion (as they call it) of this fine country, but rather celebrating everything that is traditionally Australian and what it means to be a proud Australian.
Regardless WHAT the day is, those that whinge, complain, and ditch their uni arts course to placard with the Aboriginals to change the date, will ALWAYS complain about "Invasion Day", despite it not impacting them in the slightest.
But even going along with all you have said, you don't find it a bit strange that no other nation uses the date of its foreign colonisation at its national day?