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Grayling Mar 6th 2011 2:48 pm

Re: Does Australia suffer from inferiority-complex?
 

Originally Posted by Mr Grumpy (Post 9222450)
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.

Australia would be nothing if it did not have a desert full of stuff that it's Chinese puppet masters want to buy.....at the moment

Grayling Mar 6th 2011 2:50 pm

Re: Does Australia suffer from inferiority-complex?
 

Originally Posted by Mr Grumpy (Post 9222450)
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

How ironic that posts like this simply further demonstrate the Australian inferiority complex:rofl:

Mr Grumpy Mar 6th 2011 2:53 pm

Re: Does Australia suffer from inferiority-complex?
 

Originally Posted by Grayling (Post 9222465)
How ironic that posts like this simply further demonstrate the Australian inferiority complex:rofl:

And yours demonstrates the Eurotrash inability to accept that the colonies have become better places than the Euro Motherland.

It eats you up inside every night.

Grayling Mar 6th 2011 2:54 pm

Re: Does Australia suffer from inferiority-complex?
 

Originally Posted by Mr Grumpy (Post 9222471)
And yours demonstrates the Eurotrash inability to accept that the colonies have become better places than the Euro Motherland.

It eats you up inside every night.

Whoops

there goes the dummy:rofl::rofl:

Grayling Mar 6th 2011 2:56 pm

Re: Does Australia suffer from inferiority-complex?
 

Originally Posted by Mr Grumpy (Post 9222471)
It eats you up inside every night.

...and I thought that was the shite Australian beer:rofl:

Mr Grumpy Mar 6th 2011 2:59 pm

Re: Does Australia suffer from inferiority-complex?
 

Originally Posted by Grayling (Post 9222459)
Australia would be nothing if it did not have a desert full of stuff that it's Chinese puppet masters want to buy.....at the moment

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?

Grayling Mar 6th 2011 3:00 pm

Re: Does Australia suffer from inferiority-complex?
 
:rofl::rofl::rofl:

This is like feeding strawberries to a donkey

stevenglish Mar 6th 2011 3:02 pm

Re: Does Australia suffer from inferiority-complex?
 

Originally Posted by Mr Grumpy (Post 9222479)
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?


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

mulben Mar 6th 2011 3:20 pm

Re: Does Australia suffer from inferiority-complex?
 

Originally Posted by stevenglish (Post 9222484)
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

Since there is more than one in both buyer and seller -its called the market, then you have spot price and contract price , willing sellers and willing buyers.
(leaving aside hedging and market manipulation ):confused:

mulben Mar 6th 2011 3:25 pm

Re: Does Australia suffer from inferiority-complex?
 

Originally Posted by Grayling (Post 9222459)
Australia would be nothing if it did not have a desert full of stuff that it's Chinese puppet masters want to buy.....at the moment

That applies to any resource rich state
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

unfair dinkum Mar 6th 2011 3:57 pm

Re: Does Australia suffer from inferiority-complex?
 
yes, massively

moneypenny20 Mar 6th 2011 6:38 pm

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.

Bibbs Mar 7th 2011 1:48 am

Re: Does Australia suffer from inferiority-complex?
 

Does Australia suffer from inferiority-complex?
Don't we actually need to be inferior to have one of those? :thumbup:

Vegemite Kids Mar 7th 2011 2:03 am

Re: Does Australia suffer from inferiority-complex?
 

Originally Posted by Kim67 (Post 9222125)
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.

JoeBloggs80 Mar 7th 2011 10:43 am

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.


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