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...tweet on my phone one night and I was like, 'God, this guy's so pretentious!' There should be a site where we can show the world just how lame this is," says Keith Hanson, a Louisiana-based software writer who developed the site with three friends this spring...
Tweeting Too Hard now gets several submissions every hour, and many leave Hanson banging his head. "Why would you flaunt that on a public forum?" he wonders. "They would never say these things in real life...
...granted. In recent years, however, there's been a surge of racially tinged nationalism, particularly among the young and coalescing around the Australian flag, which has become the symbol of a new tribe of über-patriots up and down the land. In 1997, anti-immigration politician Pauline Hanson draped herself in an Australian flag for one of the country's most notorious campaign photos - a testament to her "Australianness," and specifically her white Australianness. In December 2005, during the infamous Cronulla Beach race riots, thousands of youths draped in flags rampaged against nonwhites; just a few weeks later...
...That hot afternoon at Newport showed a far different Australia: not a rainbow mosaic, but the monochromatic world of the John Howard generation. These white youths had grown up during the decade of the former Prime Minister's conservative administration - they had witnessed the tacit acceptance of Hanson and her divisive politics, and had been caught up in the panicky xenophobia that swept the nation in response not only to the arrival of asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere, but also to the growing visibility and affluence of Australia's nonwhite communities. All this went through my mind...
...TIME 100 was great! while I would love to accomplish what most of these icons have, nothing would make me more proud than being thought of in the way Meg Ryan thinks of Tom Hanks. Kent Hanson, EVERETT, WASH...