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ishtat

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Today New South Wales, Australia's first and largest state by populatiopn appointed a premier (Same as a US Governor)

She, Kristina Keneally nee Kerscher is a woman - first in the office in NSW.
a feminist
a devout Catholic
a machine politician - think Tammany hall
a Labor party member

But heavens preserve us she is also an American.:) Yup born & brought up in Ohio. But still considering the main people in her party are called Sartori, Della Bosca, Iemma, Nori, and Obeid and are often referred to as the Mafia survival in the job may be a problem.
 
ishtat said:
Today New South Wales, Australia's first and largest state by populatiopn appointed a premier (Same as a US Governor)

She, Kristina Keneally nee Kerscher is a woman - first in the office in NSW.
a feminist
a devout Catholic
a machine politician - think Tammany hall
a Labor party member

But heavens preserve us she is also an American.:) Yup born & brought up in Ohio. But still considering the main people in her party are called Sartori, Della Bosca, Iemma, Nori, and Obeid and are often referred to as the Mafia survival in the job may be a problem.
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I am a little worried she's a yank. They are into our politics too now? Why don't they just invade and make it official! :) She's got to be better than Nathan Rees though; he was a massive tool.
 
We'll invade you as soon as I become Fascist Dictator.
 
I have no idea how Australia sees the US, or what it means to be an American in Oz. I think most of us in the states have been educated to the idea that all you people are kind of like England Jr., staunch buddies of the same White Anglo Saxon Protestant Capitalist ethic that runs things here, but it's also as if you were our overserved second cousins.

I don't mean to be insulting. It's just the way Australia is commonly viewed in the US.
 
Jenny_Jackson said:
And the Aussies call us "yanks", why?

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l27/Jenny_Jackson/masturbation.jpg
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No you are more likely to be called Seppos or septic's derived from Septic tank - Yank. However, insulting your best friends is part of Australian culture and the more you are rude to us and vice versa the greater affinity . Daft but there we are.

Calling Americans Yanks is very dated. Modern insults are much blunter. The best insult for an American is to tell him you thought he was a Brit. The Brits of course are the lowest form of life.:)
 
dr_mabeuse said:
I have no idea how Australia sees the US, or what it means to be an American in Oz. I think most of us in the states have been educated to the idea that all you people are kind of like England Jr., staunch buddies of the same White Anglo Saxon Protestant Capitalist ethic that runs things here, but it's also as if you were our overserved second cousins.

I don't mean to be insulting. It's just the way Australia is commonly viewed in the US.
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Most pundits in the media usually see the differences rather than the similarities which in fact are much greater. I think that Australian's attitudes to Americans is very positive at a personal level but it is much less positive to America as a political entity. Although historically we were more connected to UK (not England) culturally we are now much closer to America.

This link comments on many of the differences but in truth almost every assertion could be argued with.http://convictcreations.com/culture/yankaussie.htm

Australia was a vicarious creation of the American Revolution in that the first white settlement was caused by the fact that the Brits, American and Caribbean outlets for their convicts had been cut off.

Australia hardly progressed for the first 70 years until unsuccessful prospectors from the California Gold Rush discovered Gold in Australia in 1854 leading to a doubling in population in 10 years.

Our constitution is written and borrowed much from the USA and Canada though technically we are still a constutional monarchy with an Australian Queen.

The most decisive event for Australia in the past century was the fall of Singapore in 1942. It caused Australia to pull all her troops out of Europe and back to the Pacific fighting with the Americans. The UK was no longer a viable ally in this theatre.

Australians like to boast that America hasn't fought a war since Australia came into existence without Australia as an ally. Since that date Australian policy in the Pacific has been precisely aligned with the USA whoever was in power.

There are some 70,000 Americans who have taken out Australian citizenship and about 150 000 inclusive of first generation kids. In a society which is 25% foreign born they are hardly noticable.(USA's historical maximum was 15 % in 1880) Many come on work assignments and then stay because the education for their kids is often a better option.

Apart from their history and as a component of the Anglosphere, Australians are substantially shaped by their geography in that they are an isolated population of 22 million (less than Texas) in a country only 32 square miles less then the contiguous USA.

Finally Doc, never worry about insulting an Australian. It's a sort of ritual wherby the worst insult is clear evidence of undying friendship. However, insulting Australia is reserved as an Australian's god given right but never shared with any one else.
 
Is it fair game to insult Australian politicians? I'm bang on insulting politicians, anybody's politicians. But some say I want to hunt in Australia and need to know proper manners. :D
 
Insulting Australian politicians is more or less compulsory wherever you come from.

:)
 
Jenny_Jackson said:
And the Aussies call us "yanks", why?

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l27/Jenny_Jackson/masturbation.jpg
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It's short for yanky doodle dandies. It was broken down further during WW2, when you lot were refered to as septic tanks (American soldiers were despised over here at the time. They were better payed than their Aussie counterparts and with the accents, got a lot of play. There was an expression that went with it: oversexed, overpayed and over here).
 
voluptuary_manque said:
It's amazing how much like Americans you guys are! :D
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A healthy disrespect for authority is more or less compulsory for an Aussie. I think its because we started out as convicts. We really don't like being told what to do, even by those who we pay to do it. Insulting politicians, especially if you pick the current scapegoat will make you friends here.

PS Sorry I repeated the septic tank thing. Somehow or another I missed that one post until I read the thread the second time.
 
Crimonie! Ozzies are wankers who cant make a living unless they come to America or sell something to America.
 
JAMESBJOHNSON said:
Crimonie! Ozzies are wankers who cant make a living unless they come to America or sell something to America.
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Pull your head in. Now you're just shit stirring. The reason we have to do that is that the US, as a country, is an economic megalomaniac. It has to be the boss of everything and the world wouldn't be in anywhere as bad a shape economically if you bunch knew some kind of healthy limits. At least we didn't singlehandedly bring on a worldwide economic downturn with our stupidity. In fact, we are pretty much the only country to have avoided being sucked down the crapper with you lot. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it! :p
 
vrosej10 said:
Pull your head in. Now you're just shit stirring. The reason we have to do that is that the US, as a country, is an economic megalomaniac. It has to be the boss of everything and the world wouldn't be in anywhere as bad a shape economically if you bunch knew some kind of healthy limits. At least we didn't singlehandedly bring on a worldwide economic downturn with our stupidity. In fact, we are pretty much the only country to have avoided being sucked down the crapper with you lot. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it! :p
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I agree. But other than two wankers obsessed by crocodiles, what does Australia have to offer the world?
 
JAMESBJOHNSON said:
I agree. But other than two wankers obsessed by crocodiles, what does Australia have to offer the world?
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That's actually a bloody good question. I am not much of a fan of my mother country either. Possibly a really weird view of the world and an obnoxious kind of ingenuity. Something about our criminal ancestrary(please forgive the spelling tonight. I am coming down with something evil) makes us cunning when cornered. We make very durable soldiers (though this is not an invite for you lot to draft anymore of us into your various shit fights; enough of us are already in em). Our indigenous folk have some traditional ideas about the nature of reality which are worth exploring if you are that way inclined. Our beer is pretty good too if you like that kind of thing (I hate beer; avoid like the plague Victoria Bitter if you are ever offered. It only drunk by rednecks here who are too broke to drink anything better). We make pretty kick arse rum (Bundaberg; that shit'll pickle you!).
 
Oh and I forgot, some really strange slang, sad white and Lebanese guys who think they are African American rappers and some excellently venomous fish, spiders and hostile reptiles. I thought Steve Irwin was a tosser and it annoyed that he came to represent our country.
 
vrosej10 said:
That's actually a bloody good question. I am not much of a fan of my mother country either. Possibly a really weird view of the world and an obnoxious kind of ingenuity. Something about our criminal ancestrary(please forgive the spelling tonight. I am coming down with something evil) makes us cunning when cornered. We make very durable soldiers (though this is not an invite for you lot to draft anymore of us into your various shit fights; enough of us are already in em). Our indigenous folk have some traditional ideas about the nature of reality which are worth exploring if you are that way inclined. Our beer is pretty good too if you like that kind of thing (I hate beer; avoid like the plague Victoria Bitter if you are ever offered. It only drunk by rednecks here who are too broke to drink anything better). We make pretty kick arse rum (Bundaberg; that shit'll pickle you!).
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Youve had some 1st rate scientists, too. I think it was Fluory? who developed penicillin after the mold was discovered by Fleming. I mean, Fleming saw the mold in his dirty socks, and not sure of what to do next, soaked the socks in his tea.
 
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ishtat said:
No you are more likely to be called Seppos or septic's derived from Septic tank - Yank. However, insulting your best friends is part of Australian culture and the more you are rude to us and vice versa the greater affinity . Daft but there we are.

Calling Americans Yanks is very dated. Modern insults are much blunter. The best insult for an American is to tell him you thought he was a Brit. The Brits of course are the lowest form of life.:)
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To the rest of the world, the USA's citizens are "Yanks". It's a historical thing (first World War at least).

And the Brits are NOT the lowest form of life. There are other EU nations for that!
And a suspicious view of Politicians (especially lately) is normal round here.

"I say, I say, I say, How do you tell a politician is lying ?"
"I don't know. How do you tell a politician is lying ?"
"His lips move."
 
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Ummmm. Brits probably are the dregs of white people. I mean, when was the last time you saw a Limey with teeth?
 
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