Beoz

Wow. You clearly want to take me down a dark alley for a mugging. Guess what. I'm not playing.


Well you clearly have never spent time in Asia, other than the odd holiday.

You want to talk street level. Like jobs, like day to day respect for one another. Spend some time there. Listen to the way the Chinese address the Indians.

BadgeIsBack

+1...Australia does a flavour of multiculturalism where people become as Australian as they can manage..its all a bit rich perhaps to applaud inner city areas when they are affluent and well supported by infrastructure...you won't get many established Or wealthy Anglos in parts of the SW of Sydney...multi-culturalism can mean groups minding their own business..in Melbourne's N the shops and parks bring people together..if you were an angry white man with inferior infrastructure and less supported it might be a different story..

the troubadour

You really need to take a back seat and listen to those of us that actually know what we are talking about.


You may give an explanation as to why you assume have only holidayed in Asia? Now your humour is reaching the verge of the ridiculous.


Saying that. Don't be shy and stab around in the dark, falling over your feet. Anything you want to know on Malaysia just ask....here to help as always.

Beoz

Ha yeah. Next time I hit Langkawi after a 2 week stint on the ground, I will let you know. Amateur hour is so much fun.

ozzieeagle

Thinking about this thread, I think there are at least 3 different styles of Aussie Identity that all ring true.

There's the Urban one, which is very similar in four or five cities, that's Sydney/Melbourne/Adelaide/Canberra and Hobart. There's the Suburban identity, which seems to cover most middle and outer burbs around Australia, including most of the areas of Brisbane and Perth. Then there's the bush identity, which is a pretty random almost eccentric creature.

I was trying also to think of people that personify for me at least a person that represents a typical Australian in my eyes..... Far easier for me to pick a woman in that category.... I'd go with Myf Warhurst or more particularly Julia Zemiro.... Can't come up with a bloke and click my fingers and say that's it yet.

the troubadour

You almost had me impressed with claims of knowledge of the street lingo. Finally some hard sought after cred. Alas not to be, with rereading, as you referred to something else. Never been to Langkawi as it happens, but any filling of those extensive gaps in knowledge by someone, as arrogant as it sounds, who has known that country over the decades rather well, I'll still be happy to help.


Now instead of displaying what you don't know about a foreign country, how about a take on Australia, as that is the reason of the thread. If you want to discuss Malaysia, start a thread doing so. A country, I'd be very happy to discuss ......

the troubadour

Reflective post. I agree. I to find it ever increasingly difficult to pick any one person that represents the typical Australian.


I for one are more than happy that the 'old caricature' of what a typical Australian is supposed to be is passing into history.


People like the infantile Crocodile Dundee for example. Great to see some of 'ethnicity' becoming more at the forefront of the national psychic as well. There remains an old rear-guard out there of course, but thinning in the ranks with a new reality creeping up.......

GarryP

Realism.

As I pointed out, the external australian identity is indeed Crocodile Dundee, and is likely to remain so for quite a while. That's no bad thing since it's a strong brand, in contrast to the weak, US copy, wishy washy, identity that's can be the internal one. I'd disagree with ozzieeagle that you can have multiple internal identities, though I would agree that different people tend to view the 'identity' as more like themselves. Overall I'd peg the internal identity somewhere closer to the cashed up bogan than anything else.

'Multicultural' certainly wouldn't get a look in.

the troubadour

You are probably right, as many would prefer to deny it, but the cashed up Bogan is probably as good as any definition and will take sometime to change such perceptions.
Around me in the inner city, it is a youngish, (in the main) urban, very tolerant crowd, with growing hipster (gasp) infiltration , but I am au fait enough to this is not the reality of the great mass of middling/outer suburbs where another type of human animal dwells.

GarryP

If Melbourne had an identity it would probably be a hipster. Mind that's not even close to the reality either. And they certainly aren't tolerant either (try saying cyclists are a menace...)

Beoz

Well considering you nearly always push the Australian Identity towards a racist one, I just thought I would let you know how racist other parts of actually were.

You obviously missed that on the sun lounger.

ozzieeagle

I wish I had more time to punch out a more detailed response. I'd just respond by saying generally speaking where do the overall trends/traits and general influence of any country generally start?

Put another way, the Queen of the right wing Bogans and her divisive message was stopped dead in her tracks when her dubious message reached inner urban Melbourne.

A national identity is always undergoing change and that change in trends almost always starts in the Urban centers.

the troubadour

Hipsters hit Perth later, but just another shade of mainstream.....

the troubadour

Problem is you informed on nothing close to the reality. A country full of hate. Really I wonder if you have, if been there at all, ventured out side the airport bar?


You are quite correct though. I do in my posts refer to the Australian context. Hardly rocket science being the Australian Forum. If I do want to go into detail about something Malaysian, or German or South African I will do so on the forum for that purpose. (to which I at times do)


Probably best not to pass of things as factual from countries you have never resided and heard only second hand from drunken pub talk and social media.

Beoz

Singapore is the same. If you ever bothered to get down and dirty with the locals, you would know the racism which is beyond belief.

Your arm chair works for you. No frequent flyer points there.