Hey, Australia; if you do not like it, leave it!

NewsComAu writes:

It’s a symbol of Australia’s fighting spirit. Now the Boxing Kangaroo is at the centre of an international incident, with the International Olympic Committee ordering it taken down from the Winter Games athletes’ village in Vancouver.

It is kind of ironic.
Some Aussies (not all of course!) tend to tell immigrants and other non-Australians to ‘love it or leave it’, verbally or with classy bumper stickers; they even go so far to tell people to ‘fuck off, we’re full’. Now it seems that the table has turned.

“They’ve said that it’s too commercial because it’s a registered trademark. It’s a harmless thing that’s a bit of fun (and the Aussies) have refused to take it down.”

Maybe these athletes, that are role models, should recognise they are in a foreign country and that they should respect the ruling of IOC. They ask people to respect their ways when people come to Australia, but they are unwilling to act respectfully when they visit another country? Is that hypocrisy I smell, with a nice sprinkle of double-moral?

I could not careless if this happened in Australia, because it is their country, but they are in another country and if they have so high demands for non-Australians, they should have similar high demands for themselves when they are abroad.

I will be following the comment section closely today to see what people have to say about this.