The post jokes about individual freedom to opt out of singing the national anthem, criticizing what it sees as overly demanding or performative community expectations.
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Yes, fantastic place. They can go too fast. Switzerland, where my sister lives, there's three levels, so they have local, state and federal testing. And until about 2003, at the local level, they actually had a vote in a community hall where you were there and people would decide whether they want you to be in the country or not by putting their hands up, which I think is a bit brutal. But they have an assessment of not just proficiency in one of their three languages, but also they expect you to do. be assessed at government level as well as at local level as being a good part of the society and respecting the norms and practices. I think New Zealand... Could look at more fundamental things like the English test is a very thin test at the moment and we could perhaps expect people to have a bit more robust English to be able to become a citizen or even just being able to sing the national anthem at the current citizenship test. Yeah well my wife became a citizen, she's originally from Japan and I stitched her up and told her that she had to be able to sing the anthem in Maori and English to be able to become a citizen. So she assiduously learned it for, you know, the two, three months going in. And then on the day when they were saying there was quite a lot of mumbling when you get to the anthem part, and she was really worried because she thought lots of people weren't going to pass the citizenship test. It was disappointed if there wasn't actually a singing test individually at the end of it.
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symbolic and cultural benchmark for citizenship
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