I’ve met more Australian people in my time in Germany than makes sense. I mean, I didn’t know there were this many of them. But I guess if I lived on a dumpy prison island and spoke in a bizarrely obnoxious dialect that made everyone around me suspect I’d recently been quite near a loud explosion, I’d try to travel a lot, too.
I’ve never met an Australian who even made an attempt to speak German, let alone the Queen’s English. They drink the low-grade tourist beer, get trashed, say “Let’s gut pusst, moit!” a lot, and are all around intolerable. I wonder what they’re running from back home.
Oh, I know. It must be the coffee made from feces. Nothing less could make Hofbräu seem appealing, I’ll tell you that much.
Kopi Luwak, made in neighboring Indonesia from coffee beans excreted by native civet cats, is reputedly the world’s rarest and most expensive coffee, painstakingly extracted by hand from the animals’ forest droppings.
When roasted, the resulting beans sell for around $1,000 a kilogram ($450 a pound) and brew into a earthy, syrupy, coffee acknowledged by connoisseurs as one of the world’s finest.
I just hate Aussies so much.
How amusing this page is ……Bunch of keyboard warriors sharing their generalised views on Australians !!! The funniest is how some have mentioned that we CANT HACK losing at sport or CANT HACK a little bit of teasing after losing ….JUST to inform almost the rest of the world, NOT ONE sporting event has segregated seating or areas for fans of different teams, no special transport entrances …NOTHING ! .. Something you wont find in England nor the rest of Europe as almost all of you can not watch a game of sport without being segregated from opposing fans without acting like gorillas….Then so many comments about Australians behaviour when it comes to drinking …I admit we are not the most sober country out there …But is it not GERMANY that has a Beer Festival and a utterly disgusting Sex Festival …..Or the British that choose to drink pints of beer at any time of the day ….Maybe the reason we seem so affected by our drinking is that the rest of you are suffering of alcoholism that leaves you with the inability to actually enjoy yourself while drinking AFTER WORK or ON THE WEEKEND or WHEN ON HOLIDAY…….and the TRUTH is Australia is one of the best countries on this EARTH ….We are safe on our streets and in our homes 99% of the time…..we have secure jobs and industries a stable economy and very tolerant towards all cultures that live within Australia …..I could go on and on but who cares what you all think…I am going for a coffee right now at 8:30pm in the middle of winter and expect to find it hard to get a seat as so many people will be out and about enjoying this great country and its people ……and as for the coffee extracted from indonesian cat poo …I have not seen it or been offered this type of coffee and have visited hundred of coffee shops ..MAYBE ITS YOUR MEDIA TAKING YOU FOR A RIDE !!! If you losers had enough money you would be able to get here one day and see that I am right in everything I am saying but I dont expect you ever will
I think all this thread has really proven is that the entire human race are rude and arrogant. Race/Country/Religion. It doesn’t matter.
Much of what”s been said here is unfair. I have met thoughtful, cogent and nice Australians…three of them. Of course, since I’ve travelled to only fourty three countries and spent only three months in Australia I’m sure I’ve missed several other Australians who have actually developed the ability to have empathy with others and an awareness that the propaganda they’ve been fed by their media is the most astonishing load of rubbish imaginable. If only the vast majority of Australians would kindly stay in Australia and I never had to go there again on business all would be perfect.
I grew up with the impression that Australia was an enlightened, modern country inhabited by friendly, smart and caring people. I wanted to believe, really I did. Over several decades I’ve certainly had that belief knocked out of me by encounters with reality. It’s sad that so much potential is going to waste, but it really does beg the question- Why, out of all the nations and peoples on the Earth are Australians so singularly detestable? I wish I knew the answer. I suspect it lies somewhere in the combination of a general and apparently institionalized ignorance and arrogance, but I don’t know. They are by far the most disappointing people in the most disappointing place I’ve ever been to, but then that’s all generalizations. As I’ve said, I’ve met three thoughtful and nice Australians.
I’m not suprised, with being rascist against those of different skin color being ruled wrong, why not find a bunch of different White guys to rip on, because we can always claim that, “I’m not being racist because I’m white like you” I seriously feel this page is a complete clusterfuck of wrongness from both Aussies and Aussie-Haters who never moved past the whole not being comfortable with different accents or copping criticism. The stupidity and moral fucktardedness of people in general continues to confound me.
this is quite hilarious to read, I’m Australian and I’m quite Offended by your language!!! (Thats what I would say if a was a pommi poftah!!!)
Please don’t group all Australians with our ‘Aussie rednecks’. I do feel your pain, hell I live with the bastards. They are a black hole and will suck the life out of any situation, but don’t represent all of us.
I must grudgingly agree with your post, our rednecks are worst when traveling. Exposing them is the best thing to do so keep posting!
i live in aus
was born 2 aussie parents
adopted & raised in us
returned here & my god the hatred
“a good yank is a dead yank”
“go home in a box yank”
“a yank with his head kicked in is a good aussie”
“i’ll lock you up and youll die in custody”
these are the comments made to me by my local constabulary when i was reporting a crime of violence against
my person.
yes the local area command, my tax dollars at work
every white australian ive ever got to know,
i just cant trust them.
its not that there bad people,
they just have to win.@everything.
every thing is a cock pulling competetion
but you wont know its a competetion until after theyve won,
or the soundless wordless scream “nooooo weeee caaaannnttt cccooommmppeeettee wwiitthhh tthhaatt”
as i look over my shoulder, and i say is this a competetion???
i wasnt tryin do you want me to try???
my mate bought me 3 beers he only had one
then when i said i had 2 go to the restroom
my mate said “ive been waiting for this”
waited till i was at the urinal ,@ full tilt,
stared straight at my dick and said
” its not fair your dick is bigger than all us ausssies,
its just not fair, i have to smash you”
i was considered avreage or just a little above average,
but now i have to have my head kicked in becuse”
just becuse…
every american who comes to oz and thys to start a busneiss
forget it.
theres a book about dumb yanks comin 2 oz 2 start cotton farming,read it see what the the australians in there own book
say about yanks, we learned all we could and we fucked them off.
i ve had 2 aussie gentlemen get me alone and say to me
“there are 6 races on the face of the earth,
we ausssies have impregnated 5 of them,
but we cant get our hands on a yank shelia(woman).
so im (aussie boy) am standing over you
(“stand over” means that i have to pay protection to
this person or ill get hurt)
and im (aussie boy) going to use you for relif.
(ie my payment for protection is alowing the aussie to fuck me in my ass and cum ‘relief from the pressure of haveing one nuts full)
and when you (yank) find a yankee shelia you will stand over her for me and ill(aussie) use her for relif instead and maybe ill stop useing you.
so let me sum this up im going to pay protection with my ass
and im going to force a woman to sleep with this member of the master race.
i just go blank and say” take it then bitch”
the ausssies phuff up turn funny colors in the face swing their arms in the air, but the holes walk away.
this is not in jail either.
my au dr give me the wrong prescriptions
ones that im alllergic to.
completely ignores major medicall problems,
the chemist has started to
” have a go a the yank’
said my script was no good anymore,wouldnt give it back
when asked.
if your gay or female australia might be for you,
for the straight male dont bother,
youll go home in a box yankee
Know what I find so utterly contemptible about Australians? And this is exemplified in how they regard Americans… It’s how they can be so toxic in their contempt for Americans, and yet they get so twisted and bent out of shape should anyone criticize them. They quite literally cannot take what they dish out. This is the ultimate expression of a toxic mind in denial. There is nothing quite like it anywhere else on Earth.
And what is more, the contempt that they express for Americans is completely unjustified. Here’s my theory of where this hatred, especially for Americans, stems from. The American character, as reflected in the US Constitution with its focus on principles (and historically, standing up for what you believe in), is very different to the Australian character, as reflected in the foundations of a penal colony with its focus on containment and control. Australians learn very early in life the importance of keeping a low profile. Standing up for what you believe in is a very different mindset to always having to ask for approval or permission from a gubmint whose first responsibility is to maintain civility and order.
I’m not naive, and I do realize that America is spiralling down the gurgler, along with most every other western nation. But there is something about Australia that bothers me at a viceral level. They can be so sweet – to your face – and so toxic behind your back. They blabber on about being relaxed and easy-going, yet they take everything personally. Their first motto in life hinges around secrecy – to avoid, to deny, to conceal. This is the crux of what DH Lawrence referred to as “the withheld self”. Australian sociability is informed less by love of man than by conformity, proper conduct, and the urgency of reassuring others that you are normal and well-adjusted.
Every culture has its good and bad. And this applies as much to Australia. The trouble is, the good don’t realize how toxic their cultural mind-swamp really is. They don’t understand how this peculiar culture of obsessive conformity, with its bureaucratic meddling, regulation and control, provides bars that stifle the psyche in ways that a prison cell cannot. It’s a prison where everything and every person has a pigeon-hole, a definition from which they are not allowed to stray. That’s why Australians hate Americans so much. Americans stray too far from the condition that Australians define as being “normal”.
These days, with the erosion of American confidence and culture, Aussies no longer feel so “threatened” by Americans, and so they may tell them to their face that they “like” them. Supplicating Americans who buy into their lies and think that Aussies are wonderful need to grow a spine – Aussies may grow to more openly hate them again, but at least Americans might rediscover the self-respect that they once owned.
I’m a traveller and an overseas student, currently residing in Australia, in the most shittiest suburb in Queensland, if you know ‘Surfers Paradise’ where all these wankers and loud racist idiots concentrated?
Anyway, I heart this post. Just wondering if there’s any Facebook ‘Like’ button to hit?
Look, honestly, I can understand your opinion.
Us Aussies are pretty loud, opinionated and fairly obnoxious. But you could say the same for Americans. But the reason is that we’re a very proud country. You think you can go around insulting us and that we’re just going to take it? You can’t blame people for wanting to defend their country. You’d probably do the same.
So, yes, some Australians are as you’ve described, but they don’t represent our country. I wouldn’t really say it’s fair to think people are idiots just because of how they talk. Yes, we have a strange accent, but that doesn’t make us strange ourselves (and we don’t all talk like idiots either, the accent you know is very outrageous). Yes we like a beer or two, but how many Americans don’t? And so what we’re proud of our country? We want to prove to people like you that we’re not just a stereotype from movies like “Crocodile Dundee”.
Please don’t make generalisations like this. It bloody pisses me off, mate.
Who cares if it pisses you off? Chuck is exactly right. You pricks dish it out plenty, but you just can’t take it.
You pricks?
Excuse me if I don’t like being judge by a meaningless stereotype. And that last line was meant to be sarcastic. None of us talk like that, and I honestly couldn’t care less what you think. I just don’t like insults about my country being shouted in my face, especially when, from my experience with Australia (I’ve lived here my entire life), we’re not all that bad. You make these generalisations that are very true for some people, but you neglect the fact that not all people are that way.
We dish out plenty? Well, excuse me for wanting to defend the country I was raised in. I for one have never heard any of the people I know say they hate or dislike Americans. We don’t “dish out plenty”, and if you’d lived in Australia, then you would feel differently.
I’m not claiming to be superior or some shit like that. I don’t think I’m any better than you are. But I’d appreciate you leaving my country alone. I don’t really think this topic is worth the argument, since all it accomplishes is to piss people off and start hateful conversations.
Everybody knows you find stupid hatefull individduals anywhere you go on the planet and you also find good people who give others the time of day(Connor your the kind of person whos shallow and insecure, i bet you cry at night because you stress your self out thining about it.
*sigh* Ok, I’ve read half the comments on here and I’m gonna try this again.
Yes, I agree. Quite a lot of us Aussies are frankly, assholes. Some are arrogant, annoying, loud and, for a large part, bogans. The thing is, most of the people like this come from the poorer parts of Australia.
I’ve grown up in a fairly well off family. Not rich, but not poor either. I’ve been around the better educated and better behaved people for most of my life, and these people don’t act the way you say they do.
Also, the Australians who you’ll find back-packing through Europe are usually from the more “bogan” areas of Australia, and I agree, I hate them. They’re annoying, crude and arrogant, and set a horrible example for our country.
We Aussies are also very proud. Too proud, actually. Most of us are bad at taking criticism. I, personally, appreciate criticism, because although I don’t like it, it helps me improve at whatever the criticism is about. But some people are too proud to accept it and become defensive and, in turn, rude and argumentative. These are the kind of people who are likely to piss you off with their arrogance and “I’m better than you” attitude.
Some Australians are also loud, obnoxious and opinionated. I myself am not that way, and neither are my friends or family. I’m actually fairly shy and quiet. I tend to shy away from confrontation and try to resolve arguments as quickly and calmly as possible in order to avoid hurting people’s feelings or causing unnecessary anger. It annoys me the way some people can’t see what idiots they’re being about something insignificant or just plain stupid.
But, again, these kinds of people have grown up in families that contain drinkers, smokers and generally people who aren’t fit to be an example to children or anyone around them for that matter.
I hate the way some people in my country can be so big-headed and self-important. It makes us all seem crude and arrogant, when there are many of us who are not. I can only hope that my generation (as I am only 13) can fix the many flaws that exist in this country.
Please, I can understand your hatred for Australians. Generally, we’re not very likeable. But I beg you to hold onto the fact that we are not totally intolerable. There are some of us who are pleasant, intelligent, kind and polite. The challenge is to try to find us.
I’m an American who lives in Melbourne and I find the yuppie types much more intolerable than the bogans. Bogans aren’t arrogant. They’re just tasteless, but mostly harmless. The arrogant, middle to upper class “type A’s” are much worse, I think.
@Seppo
Yes, but the main point I’m trying to make is that not all Australians are that way. Yes, there are the ones that are arrogant or tasteless or rude, but there are also decent, kind and intelligent people. I also hate those people who think they’re so much better than others, for reasons I can’t fathom. Bogans are mostly irritating. The arrogant and disrespectful ones are the ones that give us a bad rap.
@Gabby
We read what you’re saying. Yes, there are “decent, kind and intelligent people” in Australia just like there are those who are “arrogant or tasteless or rude” in America. I’ve had exposure to Sydney’s north shore subcultures, for example, and there are indeed agreeable people there. But here’s the kicker…
Australian culture carries a lot of baggage. It is toxic. It denies freedoms and liberties at a deeper, subconscious level. For example, Australians often confuse confidence for arrogance. Why is this? It is because Australians are projecting “this is what I would be thinking if I behaved in such a way.” They are projecting their own arrogance, completely missing the point that true confidence has nothing to do with putting other people down.
Or what about when Australians talk about being “honest”? Australians aren’t honest at all. They are confusing rudeness for honesty. When an Australian is “honest” with you, you are correct to interpret it as rudeness.
Many Americans visiting Australia are also projecting. They think that Aussies are wonderful, because they are also projecting “this is what I would be thinking if I behaved in such a way.” They are projecting either their good natures or their gullibility – or maybe both. It doesn’t occur to them that a culture can be so toxic.
I feel kind of sorry for the nicer Australians and the ultra-conservative, conformist prison within which they live. They don’t mean harm, but they don’t have the robust confidence and sense of well-being that once defined Americans. You’ve got to treat them with kid-gloves. You’ve got to baby them, and reassure them that you meant no harm, that kind of thing. You can’t trust them. Not so much because they’re inherently nasty (though even the “nice” ones can often be thoroughly toxic), but because they are insecure, and they over-interpret things, reading things into situations that aren’t warranted. They are not a direct or honest people. In fact they can be down-right secretive, really. If something bothers them, they won’t confront you about it. They’ll just avoid you. That’s why Australians obsess about being easy-going. Easy-going defines the parameters of acceptable discourse. Anything outside of those “safe” boundaries unsettles our sweeter, gentler Aussies. Aussies need to define everything. Everything needs a pigeon-hole. Everything needs to be defined and slotted into a category. It’s very easy to step out of line with them. Life’s too short to bother with this kind of thing.
And then of course there are the more openly bigoted – the bogans and the yobs, which we all know about. They are important, because they have a toxic impact on the more civil Australians, as discussed above. Bottom line? It is fundamentally impossible to live independently of the elements that define a culture. If you want to rise above this cultural molasses-for-the-mind, you ‘ve got to look elsewhere, the solution does not lie here-in.
If it makes Aussies feel any better, America now seems to be spiralling down the sewer, courtesy of their own recent contributions to cultural decay over the past half century or so. But I digress.
Greetings, fellow yobs and yanks.
Why do Americans keep wanting to have their tummies rubbed and their heads patted by Australians? Oprah Winfrey comes to mind as the most public in her fawning and adulation of Aussies. Here’s the latest (Sarah Jessica Parker) who fails to understand the fundamentals of Australian etiquette – fortunately, she just managed to avert a catastrophe, by heeding the warning signs that a meltdown was imminent:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mfrwYbk_Hc
Never ever compliment an Aussie on anything, because they’ll read stuff into it. They’ll make inferences about your inadequacy, that you worship them, and so on. Australians do not regard compliments in the same light-and-breezy way that Americans do. You’ve got to understand what it means to be easy-going in Australia. Easy-going does not allow for the giving or receiving of compliments. Easy-going is about containing speech within acceptable bounds, and the giving/receiving of compliments crosses those bounds. For an Australian, compliments are serious business, and always conceal some secret or hidden agenda. The receiving of compliments makes Aussies feel uncomfortable, and usually has one of two possible outcomes. Either they’ll squirm in embarassment, or they’ll think you love them – you should be careful about coming across as too clingy or needy, it’s not a good look. The giving of compliments can raise questions about your true nature and motives. Instead of a light-and-breezy “why thank you for the compliment” where the incident blows over as if it never happened, they will instead be thinking “what’s the matter with him/her?” and you should expect to receive frosty glances at least the next time you meet.
No matter what they tell you, Australians don’t like Americans at a fundamental level. The best that you can hope for is a kind of condescension that “forgives” you for your Americanness. No matter what you Americans do, you will never be accepted as equals by the antipodean penal-colonials. The best that you can hope for (provided you keep up with your fawning and drooling over Aussies – without being too clingy, of course) is the status of a cute, loveable mascot that gets his tummy rubbed and his head patted. But be careful… should you ever get around to liking yourselves again, you will lose your status as cute teddy-bear. Are you prepared to make that sacrifice?
Ok, yes I understand what you think, and frankly, for a large part, you are correct. But what I am merely trying to infer is that, well, I’m happy in Australia. And don’t go saying “you’ve been brain-washed to believe this and that” or “your society has strict ideals that you yourself don’t realise you follow”. I get it, ok? You think my country, frankly, sucks.
But almost none of the traits you are telling me are common in Aussies apply to me or most of the people I know.
Someone compliments me? I’m flattered, I thank them, maybe compliment them back, then it’s done. There’s no scepticism or suspicion. I don’t read into it. It’s a compliment and shouldn’t be thought about with great depth.
I meet an American? Great, fine. If they’re nice to me, I’m nice to them, simple as that. I don’t think “Oh, an American. Why aren’t they obese and arrogant? Shouldn’t they be eating a cheeseburger? Why are they being friendly? Maybe they want something from me.”
Someone insults my country? I’m obviously not happy, but I don’t suddenly shout profanities at them and call them every bad name under the sun. I try to at least convince them that we’re not as bad as they think, in the most logical way I can.
I’m not brainwashed, I’m not arrogant, and I’m not insecure! I don’t have any issues with my life, nor do I have any with yours or anyone else’s unless they’re directly insulting me. Which frankly, you kind of are right now.
I mean, I don’t go around saying that every American must be arrogant and stupid. Or that your society is superficial and judgemental of others who don’t share their ideals. I could, but I won’t, because I don’t know that for sure. I can’t be the judge of an entire nation, and neither can you.
These things that you think about my country are not unfounded, but don’t go spouting hate on the internet. It just makes more people angry, and doesn’t really do any good at all.
Wow. I can’t believe you are generalising 22 000 000 people into one stereotype.
You’re basing your view on us with the way we are presented in the media.
I am Australian, and believe it or not, but I don’t say the C word and I hate the bush.
What if we start putting you American’s into one category.. most people would think fat hicks who are missing teeth.
So fuck off and get a life, why not visit Australia before you start bagging us out.
> What if we start putting you American’s into one category.. most people
> would think fat hicks who are missing teeth.
Would they? Methinks thou dost projecteth too much.
I continue to be amazed at how defensive Australians get whenever Australia is criticized.
Do any Australians exist who realize that Americans are often their own worst critics? Sure, often it’s just whiny American liberals griping and secretly wishing that they were Aussies. But oftentimes this self-criticism also relates to self-examination, self-questioning and the desire for self-improvement. Obviously, it would seem that Aussies think that they are at the peak of evolutionary development, and believe that they have nothing to improve on. Denial is not a river in Egypt – it is an Aussie’s fundamental state of mind.
Here’s my theory of why Aussies are so critical of Americans, yet reluctant to face criticism about themselves:
1) They assume that everyone criticizes Americans because there IS much about Americans to be critical of. That is, they assume that the criticism is the reality, and not the process. Refer to my previous comments about pigeon-holing, reading into things, and jumping to conclusions. Aussies regard self-criticism too simplistically… “duh, if you criticize yourself, it must mean that you are agreeing that you are a piece of pond-scum, and that I’m wonderful, duh…”
2) Bottom line is that when Americans and other countries criticize Americans, Australians regard it as an admission of lesser status. Here’s how a hypothetical conversation on the topic would flow between an American and an Australian:
American: There is much that is wrong with America.
Australian: So you admit it then. Yes, Americans are indeed worse than Australians.
American: No, I didn’t say that. I said that there is much that is wrong with America.
Australian: Yes, that’s because there IS much wrong with America.
American: But, but… there is also much that is wrong with Australia.
Australian: Are you insulting me? No, there is nothing wrong with Australia. Australians don’t criticize Australia because there is nothing wrong with us. Everybody loves us and wants to be like us.
With his wounded pride, our defensive Aussie drones on:
Look Seppo, the reason that Americans are critical of America is because there IS something wrong with America. But there is nothing wrong with Australia. The world loves us. The English, the Germans, everyone is falling over themselves to be like us. Aussie Aussie Aussie! oi! oi! oi! But nobody loves Americans. The Canadians hate you too, even though they sound like you. But Canadians are nice people, because they also want to be like us, and they are members of the Commonwealth, and they have a humble maple leaf for a flag, and I want to nominate them as honorary Aussies. But Americans have a loud flag in red white and blue, they are loud, they are arrogant and up themselves.
And he drones on ever more, never knowing quite when to shut up:
Everybody criticizes Americans because you ARE awful. But when you criticize us wonderful, easy-going, fun-loving Aussies, it is because you are arrogant and up yourselves. When we criticize it’s because we mean it because it’s true, so you have to accept the truth, but when you criticize us it’s because you’re just being nasty.
Do we see where I’m taking this? It’s the old nazi paradigm of painting as less than human, those you want to exterminate… like the jews. Anything that your target says is evidence of their inferiority, while anything that you say is evidence of your superiority. For you Americans, there is no crossing this Rubicon. You Americans are trapped in your willingness to self-criticism. The moment you admit “yes, there is much that is wrong with us,” you are submitting yourselves to the bearer of the whip. You are submitting yourselves to the rule of a penal colony. You are admitting guilt and you are placing your own head gently on the chopping-block, and pointing with your finger at the point on your neck where you would like the axe to slice.
America is imperfect and there is much that is wrong with it. Americans should be ashamed of themselves and the way they’ve shredded their US constitution and tossed it down the sewer. But America is not worse than Australia.
> So fuck off and get a life, why not visit Australia before you start
> bagging us out.
I was born in Australia and share your accent. I think I have a certain entitlement to be critical of my own country, don’t I?
Look. Here’s the key to understanding Australians. Aussies take everything personally. Everything. Every comment, every opinion, every obscure observation bears a relationship to the self that other cultures don’t experience. Here’s another hypothetical conversation to illustrate my point:
Swarthy stranger with funny accent: Gordonya Mait, you’re havink flat tyre.
Relaxed, easy-going Aussie: Whaddayamean I’ve got a flat tyre? Ya avin’ a go at me, mate?
Swarthy stranger with funny accent: No, just sayink. It not good for your car drivink with flat tyre, and you wearink grooves in road.
Seppo with American accent: Hey dude, he’s right, you’ve got a flat tyre.
Relaxed, easy-going Aussie: Shut the ef up mate. It’s none of your business. If I want to drive around with a flat tyre, I will. Shut the ef up, Seppo, go home, arrogant yank! And you you wog, if you don’t like it here, go back where you came from… we’re full!
Slightly exaggerated and tongue-in-cheek, but I’m sure we realize where we’re going with this
Aussies take EVERYTHING personally. You may not see it, because these things lie beyond mere words. And they are always telling you to be relaxed and easy-going, and so it must seem to you that they are oh-so-relaxed and easy-going. So you imagine them to be on a higher Nirvanic plain of easy-goingness and karmic relaxedness. They live according to a secret code, a special bond, to which you, as a lowly American, are not privy. You think it’s about mateship, but there’s something else that you can’t quite put your finger on. And if you look carefully, there seems to be a fly in their precious ointment… if you are alert, it might begin to dawn on you that they perceive the world to always revolve around them. EVERYTHING is always all about them. Aussie Aussie Aussie! oi! oi! oi! Me! me! me! Look at me! Notice me! Don’t insult me! Don’t criticize me!
’nuff said. Aussies are the most balanced people in the world… they have a chip on BOTH shoulders.
And you Seppos also need to stop projecting… just because Aussies are always reminding you that they are relaxed and easy-going does not mean that they are. When they tell you to stop being so uptight and taking things so seriously, perhaps it is they that are projecting.
Have a nice day
@chuckew
Have you read ANY of my comments? Have I once said that America is inferior or Australia is superior? I don’t believe so. I don’t believe my country is perfect. No country is!
And I again can’t believe you, being FROM Australia yourself, would judge a country of 22 million on the whole. Surely not every single Australian you know is this way?
And being that you are from Australia, aren’t you insulting yourself by making these generalisations?
And again, I stress this. Virtually NONE of the people I know fit the descriptions you give. We (or at least, I) don’t read into everything. I don’t think I’m some superior being or that I’m smarter than you. I’m not claiming to be some saint or this perfect person, nor am I claiming that any Australian is.
But I am saying that we’re not as flawed as you perceive us to be. We’re not all arseholes (or for the benefit of American readers, assholes) nor are we all arrogant or people who are too proud and ignorant of the world around us.
I am not perfect. Neither is my country. Neither is yours or anyone else’s. I’m not stupid or arrogant or ignorant. I don’t believe myself to be a saint or to be superior to you in any way other than the fact that I don’t see the benefit in insulting people over the internet. Or in real life for that matter.
I highly resent your claims that Australia thinks itself to be superior to everyone else, because from my experience, we don’t. We’re not claiming to be perfect, but it seems from my point of view that you are.
@Gabby
Of course Australians think that they’re superior to Americans. I know, because I had to defend American friends of mine back when I was at university. See here and here and here. These are an arbitrary selection of old sites from my own favorites records. If you google around these days, I don’t know what you’ll find, given contemporary anti-hate legislation, search-engine controls and modern censoring methods. But that smug sense of Australian superiority remains as entrenched as it’s always been, regardless of contemporary censorship controls. Just look at those smug dickheads from the chasers war on everything, and then tell me that they embrace Americans as equals.
Bush’s involvement in the Iraq war has often been provided as an excuse to justify the hate against Americans (as in the above links), but the simple fact is that Australia was as directly involved in the Iraq war as the US. See here. In fact I have a theory that the Iraq war would not even have occurred without Australia’s involvement, but that’s neither here nor there. As usual, Australia gets a free pass as it’s always done.
Now it is disappointing that Americans, for the most part, never developed the spine to rise and stand up for themselves against this hate, but in having defended them, I have no regrets. I did the right thing and I’d do it all again, even if they scurry away again like rats on a sinking ship.
> And being that you are from Australia, aren’t you insulting yourself by
> making these generalisations?
No, not at all. Standing up for what you believe in is the most important thing you can do. You are doing YOURSELF the favour by doing this. Every culture represents a kind of indoctrination, or brainwashing. You are doing yourself the favour when you learn to see your culture for the bs that it is. Free yourself.
And incidentally, I’m sure that anyone from any country can contrive interview questions as per the Chaser video and selectively interview bogans from any location in Australia to “prove” that Australians are stupid. That Australians would do this in this style says more about Australians than it does Americans. I have met rednecks like you wouldn’t believe in places like Tumut, Roxby Downs, Mt Isa, etc. To be honest, I think our rednecks would outdo them all.
do not come to australia. do not emigrate. i have been here 15 years. i will be leaving very soon. it is pointless trying to find happiness here. i have not had a meaningfull conversation with an australian yet. they are the most rude, ignorant disrespectfull people i have ever encountered, and i have travelled the world and been to many countries. they are also mean and grasping, they will not give anything away, everything had a dollar price. ignorant, rude, arrogant, know it all, these are a few of the things i can tell you are wrong with these people. they are also innumerate and semi literate. in addition the sun is disgustingly hot. forget this horrible island.
Ok, frankly, I’m done here. I know my country is flawed. Hell, I’ve been told on this site about a million times. But I’m happy. I don’t believe myself to be any of the things you describe Australians as being. I don’t hate Americans. I don’t claim to be superior.
I’m just going to leave now. If you want to slag off my country in this dark little site, fine. At least I won’t have to hear it when I’m gone.
@Spanker
Don’t insult my intelligence. I’m not “semi-literate”. My goal in life is the be an author, for christ’s sake.
@gabby – your desire to become an author does not necessarily correlate in any way to your level of literacy. If I desired to become a rock musician, I might or might not be a crap guitarist. Ones desire to become something and ones ability to become that same thing do not necessarily have any correlation. When I say that Australians are semi literate, I am stating a fact. However, you, as an Australian, take this as a personal insult. You have just proven what many people have said about the childish way that many Australians seem unable to accept any criticism, yet at the same time, they are lavish about criticizing others.
Go suck Hitler’s Cock. You are pregnant with the guilt of the world. Live with it German scum.
On behalf of a Digger and his mates. The hate lives on.
You bastards.
Coner, couldn’t agree with you more. After living 35 yrs in San Francisco, I’ve returned to Vancouver/Whistler Canada. What a culture shock, FULL of ignorant Aussies. It’s been years since I’ve heard, “nigger and faggot.” WHat kills me is they are so arrogant with their ignorance. Yes initially pleasant but when one asks if I’ve ever been “down under?” WTF? I am 5th gen CHinese. When I wanted to travel to Australia with my friends, most of whom where Naturalized Canadians, I was informed I would be denied entry due to their ALL WHITE LAW. This was in 1967. So much for being part of the Commonwealth. It’s the first time I’ve ever experienced Racism. When I’ve tried to explain it to Aussies, Up here, they don’t even know their racist history and think I’m JOKING!
As I’m identified being American, I know the A..hole classification I’m in. However the distinction is because Americans are assertive, NOT the polite, passive, aggressive, Canadian. I’m proud to call myself San Franciscan, but was well aware most of the US hated us.
(the “Cereal State” remove the “fruits and nuts” and you’re left with the “flakes.”
In Aussie’s defence Conor, use your head. WHat do you expect from a gene pool of convicts. “THe apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” hmmm perhaps a forest fire?
Gabby, (appropriately named) you are a riot. If you thought this blog was so rediculous, what promted you to search it? Of course you don’t “read” into people. You can’t even see, let alone, “get over,” yourself. How can you possibly think out of a realm without experience?….self centredness. That’s all people are saying! Your defensiveness, proves your arrogance, and the subject matter, your ignorance. Otherwise, if so self righteous, why would you consider responding, to this blog?
It’s not just you, but anyone who has not ventured outside of their tiny cesspool, yet procalim, “IT’s the BEST!” As a person who wants to write, look up the word “conjecture.” Aussies are full of it. If you don’t know, what’s wrong with saying, “I don’t know,” instead of farting out a multiple choice, pretending to be smart?…..so insulting! very Australian.
You aspire to be a writter? Dick and Janes been DONE.
Grow up and travel.
Yes, I’m SO OVER the ignorant arrogance from the gene pool of convicts. The representation from Aussie “super stars,” ie: Mel GIbson and Layton Hewitt, are the worlds only indication of your profile of racial
superiority….discrimination. It’s difficult to think that the country is any different, especially from what I’ve experienced from Aussies, only rienforces.
i forgot to mention that aussies generally talk over you, do not actually listen to what you are saying even if they happen to be silent whilst you speak ( rare ) , and almost always interrupt before you have finished. perhaps this is the reason why they all speak so quickly – they are trying to finish what they are saying before they are interrupted.
and gabby ( yes, appropriate name ) your desire to be an author does not necessarily bear any correlation to your level of literacy……
I have to say, I have travelled all over the world. I like to think I’m an open minded guy. Yet in every country, all the travellers I meet have the same story; Australians are wankers.
I live in London. Jesus, they are so horrible to work with. New zealanders on the other hand are really good people.
It would be better if Australians learnt more humility.