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Originally Posted by James
New Zealand has never been part of Australia though, so Australian has never been part of the NZ national identity; whereas Scotland has been part of the UK for 300+ years, and has always been geographically part of Great Britain and had a British identity.
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This has nothing to do with arguments over whether or not it's socially preferable or economically feasible - which should be the ONLY two concerns; it's just baseless sentimentality "for stuff that's been around ages".
My point was that if NZ
was part of a greater Australia, and wanted to separate, the same arguments about it not being a good idea / not being viable, "needing" the larger country for stability, etc. would undoubtedly be made...
...the fact that it exists very comfortably as an individual country and would have no desire to "join a bigger one" proves that those arguments are not necessarily true.