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Dutch-Australian cultural heritage ~ surely 'owned' by everyone, with 'expert' advice welcomed?!?!?
(Is my personal perspective.)
Quote from:
http://www.canberra.edu.au/centres/donald-horne/cultural-heritage/what-is :
"What is Cultural Heritage?
The popular answer is that cultural heritage is the things, places and practices that define who we are as individuals, as communities, as nations or civilisations and as a species. It is that which we want to keep, share and pass on.
As a field of scholarship, Cultural Heritge has emerged over the past forty or fifty years when universities (especially in the United Kingdon, Europe and North America) diversified beyond the orthodox and traditional disciplines and into new fields of enquiry that were cross-disciplinary or multi-disciplinary."
My point:
If who I am as an individual is being defined, in terms of being a Dutch-born Australian, I'd like to have a say in this and the opportunity to comment on how being "Dutch-(born)-Australian" is affected by celebrations of the landing by Dirk Hartog, in 1616, as it will surely reflect on all of us who came here from the Netherlands, since then!?!?
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