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Don't get me started on seppo's....
I was very lucky and managed to visit, San Antonio and The Alamo, Pearl Harbour and the Arizona Memorial, Tombstone, San Fransisco and Alcatraz, Washington DC and the Vietnam Wall... all those places that yanks hold near and dear... Showed the proper respect and all that.
Yet whilst on a visit to Ballarat we went into the Eureka Stockade. We sat down to view the film there and a pair of yanks walked in, talking and eating chips. We then had to put up with them talking most of the film, until the husband asked the wife "Is there any Americans in this?" at her response of no, he complained said something like, "well this aint worth watching" and walked out.
I nearly followed them out to give them a serve, but decided that it just would be a waste of time......
I was very lucky and managed to visit, San Antonio and The Alamo, Pearl Harbour and the Arizona Memorial, Tombstone, San Fransisco and Alcatraz, Washington DC and the Vietnam Wall... all those places that yanks hold near and dear... Showed the proper respect and all that.
Yet whilst on a visit to Ballarat we went into the Eureka Stockade. We sat down to view the film there and a pair of yanks walked in, talking and eating chips. We then had to put up with them talking most of the film, until the husband asked the wife "Is there any Americans in this?" at her response of no, he complained said something like, "well this aint worth watching" and walked out.
I nearly followed them out to give them a serve, but decided that it just would be a waste of time......
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Great strength holding back!! More than a vocal serve was in order!swampgecko wrote:Don't get me started on seppo's....
I was very lucky and managed to visit, San Antonio and The Alamo, Pearl Harbour and the Arizona Memorial, Tombstone, San Fransisco and Alcatraz, Washington DC and the Vietnam Wall... all those places that yanks hold near and dear... Showed the proper respect and all that.
Yet whilst on a visit to Ballarat we went into the Eureka Stockade. We sat down to view the film there and a pair of yanks walked in, talking and eating chips. We then had to put up with them talking most of the film, until the husband asked the wife "Is there any Americans in this?" at her response of no, he complained said something like, "well this aint worth watching" and walked out.
I nearly followed them out to give them a serve, but decided that it just would be a waste of time......
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The general lack of knowledge about Australia by some individuals doesn't surprise me. When living in the northern hemisphere a number of examples of this was displayed to my family and I:-
- we were asked what language we spoke in Australia (granted there was an explanation - apparently our accents demonstrated that we were having problems with English, so the assumption was that English was our second language LOL)
- numerous people in different countries thought we went home to Australia each weekend. We had to explain many times the logistics of that exercise.
But I must admit the example that started the thread takes the cake! Has anyone tried to explain why there is snow / ice at both ends of each hemisphere at the same time?
(PS I also learnt a lot about my general lack of knowledge of other countries as well when travelling!)
- we were asked what language we spoke in Australia (granted there was an explanation - apparently our accents demonstrated that we were having problems with English, so the assumption was that English was our second language LOL)
- numerous people in different countries thought we went home to Australia each weekend. We had to explain many times the logistics of that exercise.
But I must admit the example that started the thread takes the cake! Has anyone tried to explain why there is snow / ice at both ends of each hemisphere at the same time?
(PS I also learnt a lot about my general lack of knowledge of other countries as well when travelling!)
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I worked in the states for 6 months and that was a normal question. The best one I got asked was do we have corners on our roads.
I was also told by a yank trying to chat me up that he had studied Australian history and how lucky we were that the convict named Sydney was a bully. He thought the First Fleet dumped the convicts on the beach and turned around and left. 'Sydney' was a bloke who forced every one to build him a town. I tried to convince him otherwise but I was stupid and he knew better then me. He took world history for a whole semester in Uni. He wouldn't even believe me that Canberra is our national capital not Sydney.
I only worked on the west coast so I don't know if they are any smarter in the east. What can you expect when most americans can't even find their country on a world map.
I was also told by a yank trying to chat me up that he had studied Australian history and how lucky we were that the convict named Sydney was a bully. He thought the First Fleet dumped the convicts on the beach and turned around and left. 'Sydney' was a bloke who forced every one to build him a town. I tried to convince him otherwise but I was stupid and he knew better then me. He took world history for a whole semester in Uni. He wouldn't even believe me that Canberra is our national capital not Sydney.
I only worked on the west coast so I don't know if they are any smarter in the east. What can you expect when most americans can't even find their country on a world map.