Argumentative Essay: Does Australia Need A National Identity?

Does Australia need a national identity?
"Australia needs sudden shocks of reorientation within its society that will divorce it from the largely irrelevant problems of the British, make it possible to speed necessary changes and to develop some new sense of identity, some public feeling of being a people who can be described - even if incorrectly - as such-and-such a kind of nation, and act at times as if it were so. Australians are anonymous, featureless, nothing-men. This modest anonymity reveals itself in the argument that Australia does not run to the kind of person we could turn into a president."Donald Horne - 1964
For various reasons, a national identity has become a problematic subject for most western countries. One reason is that
Specifically, a national identity influences the motivation of individuals to support the ambitions of their compatriots. For example, most sports-loving Australians have a strong desire to see their compatriots achieve. Consequently, they support their tax dollars being spent to fund training programs. Furthermore, they pay money to enter stadiums where they can cheer encouragement. If individuals lacked affinity to other people from their country, then they would not have any desire to support anyone except
For example, in many areas of Sydney and Melbourne, there are almost no individuals who identify as Australian. In these areas, a Korean kid may sit in a class surrounded by Vietnamese, Sudanese, Italian, Afghani or Lebonese kids. The Korean kid may be in fear that a gang of these kids will beat him up on the way home. The kid’s only real hope of protection is to join a Korean gang. When the kid is mixed race, or no gang is available, he or she is particularly