Actually the news services here have been trying to downplay the fact that in a recent poll about 82% of people didn't know what all the fuss was about.
Then after that, the actual big news story was that this was actually making news around the world.
Apparently.
It screams of insecure Australia doing a Sally Field(paraphrasing), "They've noticed us......THEY'VE REALLY REALLY NOTICED US!!!!!!"
I talked to many people over the past few days and almost to a person they have replied with sentiments along the lines of
"I wish people would see it for what it is - a joke - I don't know what all the fuss is about"
or
"Yeah, that hippocrite Harry Connick Jr.(now revealled to have done a black southern preacher skit)can go fuck himself!"
Frankly, we could not give a rat's arse what the rest of the world thinks of us.
As for me, one of THE FUNNIEST things I EVER saw on the net was the morning after when I read an excerpt from some bimbo's blog in Chicago.
She ACTUALLY said, "I am SO upset I cannot type anymore!"
Get a grip bitch. People are dying in Iraq and children are starving in Africa. Go volunteer at a soup kitchen or give some money to OXFAM, but just take your self-righteous, self-loathing(otherwise known as white WASP self-hatred)and get off my monitor.
Tulin - sick to fucking death of PC cry babies jumping to take offence for others when most of them couldn't give a fuck