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RE: A Little Cultural Comparison
I've never heard of it, but reading through the responses it does explain a few differences I noticed between here and the UK.
I've never heard of it, but reading through the responses it does explain a few differences I noticed between here and the UK.
Reading through your response above I can see how the differences in the way that we entered Australia would effect how we experience the culture. Where I came in to an almost socially preset environment, where most of the people I met we predisposed to accept me on the basis of their relationships with my husband and in-laws, you would have had a very different experience. I would love to hear more about what it was like for you moving here. In my conversation with @shaidon I stumbled across this website: http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSOnline.jsp . It shows the same survey information from different countries over a time period. You can even see the results from specific questions. I'm not sure if the number of people they surveyed is adequate to call it representative, but I did find it very interesting.
That's a good point. It's also a good example of why statistics are often inaccurate. Too many variables. The thing we have in common is that we are both migrants; other than that we have completely different backgrounds and our circumstances on entering the country are completely different.
But have you found your experiences, once here, to be similar in the way you perceived Australians and our culture / ways of doing things?
Not really. You have to remember that most of us learnt about Australia via Crocodile Dundee! Lol!