Re: Does Australia suffer from inferiority-complex?
 

Very true.

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It's funny, my greed and what I perceived as important to me (materialistic bullshit) led to my return back to Australia but shit I'd love to be back in Vancouver... I'm jealous Kiwilass!!

:thumbsup:

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Shit swing music?

Not a genre I am familiar with.

Re: Does Australia suffer from inferiority-complex?
 

It's a huge assumption to make that Australians as a nation of people are full of their own importance and think, or even care, about whether people in other countries are 'thinking of them'.

Most people in Australia are actually very humble and modest, down to earth types. Many are very well travelled, have been to Europe, North America, Asia etc. and are not as insular as many try to make out.

It's a pity that so many people are lazy and prefer to gain their views from stereotypes that are put out there by the world's media.

I think you'll find that most citizens of a country care about their own lives and own country first and foremost and have no reason to be 'thinking about' any other nation most of the time. I doubt that people in Canada would be thinking of Austria on a daily basis, or Chinese people thinking about France etc.

It's pretty much a fact that Australia is one of the highest developed nations in the world and also amongst the most livable. I don't understand why you wouldn't be proud of that as an Australian, particularly when it has only taken 223 years from scratch to develop the country to what it is today, as opposed to thousands of years in Europe, and about 400 in the US.

This doesn't mean that Australians have a 'chip on their shoulder' about other larger countries that have 'been around' for much longer. It seems though that many of those countries have some bizarre problem with Australia, judging by all the disparaging comments about Australia and Australians that seem to come out of countries like the UK and occasionally US etc.

Perhaps it's a case of those countries needing to get over us rather than us getting over them, because it would seem, just going by this forum, that people in Europe and North America think and care a lot more about us and what we think than we do about them. ;)

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I don't get being proud of your nationality. You have no control over where you were born, so being proud of it is ridiculous. You can feel lucky that you were born in a first-world country but not proud.

The rest of the world couldn't give a sh*t about Australia. Why would they? It is economically and culturally insignificant to the vast majority of the world.

Re: Does Australia suffer from inferiority-complex?
 

Played at 33 and a turd RPM I'd imagine.

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lol..

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That flag waving bravado was there well before little johnny's rein.

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Not necessarily the people but certainly the media and the pollies, Hey i'm really sure colonel gaddafi sat up and took note when Gillard told him to step down -please.... haha.
The media's always quoting stuff like "The US has no friend like Australia" when the yanks say that about every country.
When Rudd went over for the G20 summit he wasnt even allowed to sit at the main table with the big boys and did his speech at 3 in the morning to an empty house.

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Maybe they were afraid he'd abuse a waitress ;)

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or he'd start crying...

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The Chinese may disagree with the economic side and if the flag wavers are being patriotic why is that seen as an inferiority complex .

Besides that I agree that no one gives a rats arse about OZ

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If I had to generalise, I would say it does have an inferiority complex. It's very comfortable, nay, fixated on talking itself up (and flag waving) in its own company. And that all works well, but in the company of unaustralians it can get a bit awkward...there's almost a necessity to be 'validated'. The 'tall poppy syndrome' is definitely an Aussie speciality...on one hand you have the 'best in the world' contingent and on the other those that reject anything Aussie when it has to stand up to international comparison. It's a pretty confused place when it comes to its place in some supposedly important pecking order.

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Does he have a reputation of doing things like that?

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Most New Zealanders actually think that New Zealand is a big important player on the world stage. This is because, like in all places, the local media always portray international events from the New Zealand angle (even if there isn't one they make one up), making it look more important than it is.

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