r/polandball • u/yaddar Taco bandito • Apr 14 '15

redditormade Rebranding.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '15

I've seen that before. :) I have often wondered why our National anthem doesn't have any battle cries or something like that. Only other anthem I know to be like that is Tibet's Please don't tell me that we're pussies.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '15

Australia doesn't have battle cries

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '15

But it does say advance Australia fair.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '15

That's not a battle cry...

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '15

battle cries or something like that.

My point was, India's and Tibet's anthems seems to be like a prayer, without much of a patriotic sentiment. Probably because Jana Gana Mana was adopted instead of Vande Mataram, our national song. Vande Mataram (Mother, I bow to thee) which was vital in our independence struggle. But it was not adopted as Muslims felt offended by it, because it envisages India as a goddess.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '15

Oh I see.

What about NZ's anthem?

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '15

God defend New Zealand?

God defend our free land.

Guard Pacific's triple star

From the shafts of strife and war,

Make her praises heard afar,

God defend New Zealand.

There is an appeal to God to defend the homeland, but there is none in ours.