Does Australia suffer from inferiority-complex?
Mar 7th 2011, 2:48 am
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Re: Does Australia suffer from inferiority-complex?
Did I claim otherwise?
You need to realise Australia is no longer a colony and is actually 100% self sustaining.
Australia is not claiming to be a superpower you fool, Australia is a medium sized economic power and that is the recognition that Australia is ENTITLED to.
You need to realise Australia is no longer a colony and is actually 100% self sustaining.
Australia is not claiming to be a superpower you fool, Australia is a medium sized economic power and that is the recognition that Australia is ENTITLED to.
Mar 7th 2011, 2:50 am
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Re: Does Australia suffer from inferiority-complex?
According to the IMF, World Bank and CIA(I know, dont pay attention to them) agree Australia is the 13th largest economy. How is that not significant? How does that make Australia weak? Considering Australia only has 22m people. You are a fool and a LIAR if you do not acknowledge that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._%28nominal%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._%28nominal%29
Mar 7th 2011, 2:53 am
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Re: Does Australia suffer from inferiority-complex?
Mar 7th 2011, 2:59 am
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Re: Does Australia suffer from inferiority-complex?
Besides, what does the UK actually have to sell? An air of pompousness perhaps? Unfortunately you cant build a house out of that or eat it. Well I suppose that you could eat a pompous Briton if you had to. Perhaps thats a way you could reduce your surplus population?
Mar 7th 2011, 3:00 am
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Re: Does Australia suffer from inferiority-complex?
This is like feeding strawberries to a donkey
Mar 7th 2011, 3:02 am
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Re: Does Australia suffer from inferiority-complex?
Thats called trade, look it up. Do you think Australia needs the worthless low quality trinkets from China? We can just as easily switch.
Besides, what does the UK actually have to sell? An air of pompousness perhaps? Unfortunately you cant build a house out of that or eat it. Well I suppose that you could eat a pompous Briton if you had to. Perhaps thats a way you could reduce your surplus population?
Besides, what does the UK actually have to sell? An air of pompousness perhaps? Unfortunately you cant build a house out of that or eat it. Well I suppose that you could eat a pompous Briton if you had to. Perhaps thats a way you could reduce your surplus population?
Is Australia selling coal and iron ore to China at a price decided by the vendor or the buyer? That generally indicates who's in charge
Mar 7th 2011, 3:20 am
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Re: Does Australia suffer from inferiority-complex?
(leaving aside hedging and market manipulation )
Mar 7th 2011, 3:25 am
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Re: Does Australia suffer from inferiority-complex?
example:
Saudi Arabia would be nothing if it did not have a desert full of stuff that it's American puppet masters want to buy.....at the moment
Mar 7th 2011, 3:57 am
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Re: Does Australia suffer from inferiority-complex?
yes, massively
Mar 7th 2011, 6:38 am
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Re: Does Australia suffer from inferiority-complex?
Well I don't know the whole 20 plus million in the country or even if any 'country' can actually have a single thought but the Aussie people I know don't.
Mar 7th 2011, 1:48 pm
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Re: Does Australia suffer from inferiority-complex?
Does Australia suffer from inferiority-complex?
Mar 7th 2011, 2:03 pm
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Re: Does Australia suffer from inferiority-complex?
I think that most Australians couldn't really care less how we're perceived by other nations. I'm probably guilty of being defensive on here when Australia is criticised because the criticism quite often comes from people with a very limited experience of Australia or Australians as a whole.
Totally agree with this.
Dont think it applies to the media though. Thems I do think have an inferiority complex, but I've found that to be true of many countries media.
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Mar 7th 2011, 10:43 pm
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Re: Does Australia suffer from inferiority-complex?
Australia is like the teenager of the world. It doesn't quite have the experience and wisdom of older countries, gets all narky when you point out they are wrong but is really good at sport.