"If a country such as Indonesia wants to ban kissing in public and bikinis on the beach, maybe this is a country where Australians shouldn't be". The spoken words I heard as I cruised local TV channels for early morning news.As I laboured to make the perfect cup of Earl Grey, I wondered why Australians need to use "cultural blackmail" for a bit of fun in the sun and a dip in the sea.
Australia's coastline is longer than 25,000km, add more than 7,000 beaches, pick among spectacular secluded bays framed by rocky crags and colored sands, or choose Manly Beach in Sydney, on Surfers Paradise's Main Beach the party never stops.
On the Queensland Sunshine Coast, those who feel incarcerated by a bikini strip, can stroll naked along the sea-shore of a nudist beach. Rarely is kissing seen on Australian public venues or along the streets.
A western brand of liberal conventions in Indonesia may provoke reprisal, not a joke but a spatter of perversion, to extort the forfeiting of local mores from a hard-up neighbour, inviting trade of long established modesty is immoral, dangling the much-needed but scornful tourist dollar...
Perhaps the key is language, some people "travel" to far away places eager to discover, to appreciate, to see, feel, touch, smell, taste, learn how others breethe, many more are "holiday-makers"... Drinking, drugging, kissing, disrobing on a foreign beach...
No comments:
Post a Comment