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Some Cultural Comparisons
I came across this cross-culteral comparison and was marvelled
at how it viewed the various cultures mentioned. And how
obviously Australian it was. (grin)
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Aussies: |
Dislike being mistaken for Pommies (Brits) when abroad. |
Canadians: |
Are rather indignant about being mistaken for Americans when abroad. |
Americans: |
Encourage being mistaken for Canadians when abroad. |
Brits: |
Can't possibly be mistaken for anyone else when abroad. |
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Aussies: |
Believe you should look out for your mates. |
Brits: |
Believe that you should look out for those people who belong to your club. |
Americans: |
Believe that people should look out for & take care of themselves. |
Canadians: |
Believe that that's the government's job. |
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Aussies: |
Are extremely patriotic to their beer. |
Americans: |
Are flag-waving, anthem-singing, and obsessively patriotic to the point of blindness. |
Canadians: |
Can't agree on the words to their anthem, when they can be bothered to sing them. |
Brits: |
Do not sing at all but prefer a large brass band to perform the anthem. |
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Americans: |
Spend most of their lives glued to the idiot box. |
Canadians: |
Don't, but only because they can't get more American channels. |
Brits: |
Pay a tax just so they can watch four channels. |
Aussies: |
Export all their crappy programs, which no-one there watches, to Britain, where everybody loves them. |
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Americans: |
Will jabber on incessantly about football, baseball, and basketball. |
Brits: |
Will jabber on incessantly about cricket, soccer, and rugby. |
Canadians: |
Will jabber on incessantly about hockey, hockey, hockey, hockey, and how they beat the Americans, twice, playing baseball. |
Aussies: |
Will jabber on incessantly about how they beat the Poms in every sport they play them in. |
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Americans: |
Spell words differently, but still call it "English". |
Brits: |
Pronounce their words differently, but still call it "English". |
Canadians: |
Spell like the Brits, pronounce like Americans. |
Aussies: |
Add "G'day", "mate" and a heavy accent to everything they say in an attempt to get laid. |
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Brits: |
Shop at home and have goods imported because they live on an island. |
Aussies: |
Shop at home and have goods imported because they live on an island. |
Americans: |
Cross the southern border for cheap shopping, gas, & liquor in a backwards country. |
Canadians: |
Cross the southern border for cheap shopping, gas, & liquor in a backwards country. |
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Americans: |
Drink weak, pissy-tasting beer. |
Canadians: |
Drink strong, pissy-tasting beer. |
Brits: |
Drink warm, beery-tasting piss. |
Aussies: |
Drink anything with alcohol in it. |
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Americans: |
Seem to think that poverty & failure are morally suspect. |
Canadians: |
Seem to believe that wealth and success are morally suspect. |
Brits: |
Seem to believe that wealth, poverty, success and failure are inherited things. |
Aussies: |
Seem to think that none of this matters after several beers. |
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