Re: Why can't some people stand to hear negative views of Australia
 

Agreed....this is another of those sweeping generalisation threads where people who are here can confuse those that aren't:)

Re: Why can't some people stand to hear negative views of Australia
 

Its easier to be smart than to answer.

Give examples of culture so i can learn please

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Re: Why can't some people stand to hear negative views of Australia
 

And one of those sweeping generalisation threads where people who aren't here may think they can learn something useful from those who are:)

Re: Why can't some people stand to hear negative views of Australia
 

Those things impact on you everyday.

I move through life as a white, middle class, educated, female. I will never know what it means to be black. Or uneducated. Or male. Or a hundred other things. That's the same in Aus. I can only view the world through my eyes as a Pom. I can live here for the rest of my life, and never experience Australia in the same way as someone who's lived here always does. I am socio-culturally located - I am me.

Taking me and putting me somewhere else means I won't fit. I can adapt and change and assimilate. But I still view the world through those assimilated eyes. I will always, always be on the outside looking in. It's just the way of emigrating.

That's why it's so difficult to explain. If you can't get that now, you will when you get here.

And that's far too sensible a post from me. I'm off to talk bollocks somewhere else.

Re: Why can't some people stand to hear negative views of Australia
 

give examples of culture that differs from the uk in such a way that i will be shocked

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:lol:

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It's what I do. :o

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How can a place have "No culture"? Surly culture defines what people so with there day to day lives so any place with people is going to have some culture.

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Re: Why can't some people stand to hear negative views of Australia
 

hey, communism aint so bad...

S

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:lol:

Yes, that show is pretty shocking!! :rofl:

Re: Why can't some people stand to hear negative views of Australia
 

It's an internet forum....we don't know you....how do we know what will shock you?????

You may be shocked by the treatment of the indiginous population here....you may be shocked by racial tensions....you may be shocked by the fact that you can't get your favourite cereal.....how the hell should we know.

I repeat, this is an internet forum, not the gospel:)

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OMG you'll be telling us Father Christmas doesnt really exist next?! :lol:

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You mean BE isn't a religion?!

Should I dismantle the alter I've started to build? :confused: