I'm on a Yamaha XS650 discussion group whos cultural makeup is very similar to this excellent group of Aeronca aviators. The Yamaha group has members from a big variety of different countries, but especially USA, Canada, England, and Australia. Like this group, we're good friends and some have even visited each other. One of the members posted this the other day to help us better understand our cultral differences.
Cultural Differences Explained...
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.
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 and take care of
themselves.
Canadians: Believe that that's the government's job.
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.
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.
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.
Americans: Spell words differently, but still call it "English."
Brits: Pronounce their words differently, but still call it "English."
Canadians: Spell like Brits, pronounce like Americans.
Aussies: Add "G'day", "mate" and a heavy accent to everything they say in an
attempt to get laid.
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, and liquor in
a backwards country.
Canadians: Cross the southern border for cheap shopping, gas, and liquor in
a backwards country.
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.
Americans: Seem to think that poverty and 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.
Cultural Differences Explained
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Ok, the part about Aussies liking their beer reminds me of a true story in Cairo.
British Airways presents plays around the world for the entertainment of Brits who are posted in those regions. The play presented, as a Brit would say, is a proper affair. My wife and I were the guest of the Austrian Embassy. The affair was at one of the very nice downtown hotels on the Nile. Needles to say, my wife and I were appropriately dressed and were one of the first to arrive. Soon enough, the Aussies arrived also appropriately dressed but they were all carrying large ice chest loaded with Aussie beer. Stella bera was not for them. As soon as they got to "our" table, they were breaking open the chest and passing the beers around. They appeared to have one or two on the way over. The hotel manager was initially upset but after a few pounds changed hands everything was OK.
I have never been with a more fun loving, beer drinking group of people in all my life. The Aussies know how to party......and drink beer!
Dennis
British Airways presents plays around the world for the entertainment of Brits who are posted in those regions. The play presented, as a Brit would say, is a proper affair. My wife and I were the guest of the Austrian Embassy. The affair was at one of the very nice downtown hotels on the Nile. Needles to say, my wife and I were appropriately dressed and were one of the first to arrive. Soon enough, the Aussies arrived also appropriately dressed but they were all carrying large ice chest loaded with Aussie beer. Stella bera was not for them. As soon as they got to "our" table, they were breaking open the chest and passing the beers around. They appeared to have one or two on the way over. The hotel manager was initially upset but after a few pounds changed hands everything was OK.
I have never been with a more fun loving, beer drinking group of people in all my life. The Aussies know how to party......and drink beer!
Dennis
