What are the social and psychological nuances within Australia
Jul 30th 2015, 1:08 pm
#92
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Re: What are the social and psychological nuances within Australia
You cannot discuss anything of importance with sweeping generalisations unless of course you don't want to live in the real world lol.
Jul 30th 2015, 1:40 pm
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Re: What are the social and psychological nuances within Australia
I have travelled and lived in a lot of countries and really most people are the same, I have met Americans that are arrogant and others that are really friendly, Europeans that can be rude and also very polite, in Africa some come across as aggressive and others will "bend over backwards to help you". In Asia you can find people who will invite a stranger into their homes and others would not even smile at you. Its the same with the Australians and the British there are good and bad people. If anyone on this thread believe that Australians are not any different from others in this regard then they are slightly delusional.
Overall people are the same everywhere, it's just the percentages that can vary. I also find myself having more in common with people from other countries who are similar in their attitude and way of life than I do with dissimilar people from my own country.
The biggest factor blocking this belief is the language barrier. Once you break through that it becomes quite evident that the world is not divided according to national barriers but that similar people exist everywhere.
Jul 30th 2015, 2:06 pm
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Re: What are the social and psychological nuances within Australia
But even breaking the language barrier doesn't prepare you for Marown.
Jul 30th 2015, 2:35 pm
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thats because its just wrong! Maroon has two Os in it so its maroon, not Marown ( as I point out frequently at work!)
Jul 30th 2015, 8:59 pm
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Re: What are the social and psychological nuances within Australia
I'd pinpoint the 3 biggest changes in myself, from admittedly migrating at a very young age of 24 from London, in order. It could be maturity, it could be assimilation, probably a combination of both.
Treating and thinking as everyone as equals no matter their background or perceived social status.
Seeing more postive things in people and life in general than negative.... more rose tinted society here I feel.
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Jul 30th 2015, 10:36 pm
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Re: What are the social and psychological nuances within Australia
I would have on my visits for sure.
Jul 31st 2015, 2:35 pm
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Re: What are the social and psychological nuances within Australia
It's just life, you like where you live so you see the best in things, if you lived in say Africa and did not like it and moaned and groaned then you would be the "winging Aussie".
Jul 31st 2015, 5:21 pm
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Re: What are the social and psychological nuances within Australia
Here's a winging Aussie:
Mind you, using a spell checker can result in this!:
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
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Jul 31st 2015, 10:05 pm
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Re: What are the social and psychological nuances within Australia
I agree - when I lived in Europe full of professionals from many countries, people travelled well across borders. Disdain was afforded for the token Brits who wanted to do everything like they did in English suburbia and hadn't moved on. They were clever enough not to moan but you could tell them a mile off.
It wasn't just the Brits like this but it was the majority - then it was an English speaking workplace - so it attracted the most Brits.
Jul 31st 2015, 10:06 pm
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Aug 23rd 2015, 2:00 am
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