Thursday, 15 January 2009
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Americans, Aussies, Brits, and Canadians
by Anne 
This is an article I stumbled upon and found it quite humorous and wanted to share. Enjoy!
Funny Cultural Differences ExplainedDo you think this list is accurate?- 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 & 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 the 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, & liquor in a backwards country.
- Canadians: Cross the southern border for cheap shopping, gas, & 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 & 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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- From: anne
- Name: anne
- About Me: Age: 27, Location: New York, NY Favorite places I've visited: Trick question! I've been to so many amazing places, but if I absolutely had to pick, I'd settle on a couple places to shorten the list. Madrid, Spain because that's where I did my study abroad program when I was 18 and it was there that the travel bug bit me so hard it left a scar. I haven't been the same since. And Vietnam. That's where my family is from. Although, I'm Vietnamese American, I never actually visited Vietnam until I was 26. It was an awesome experience to learn about my family's history and I was quite pleased to show off my vietnamese language skills to the locals. It's quite a big deal for an american-born.
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Comments (24)
PERFECT!!!
Hit the nail on the head.
Haha, that's really funny!
LOL... Yeah, that pretty much sums it up.
some of it maybe. definitely not all of it.
That's hilarious.
Wow. I've learned something, i think?
HAHA, this is great!
How on earth am I supposed to know who is from where when most white foreigners look the same to me?! (I'm Asian and living in an Asian country.)
Yup. I'm in Australia, and looking at them versus my Brit/Canadian/American friends, the list is spot-on. Especially the part about Aussies drinking anything with Alco in it.
You know what? I don't want to be Canadian anymore. I want to be Australian. Who's wit me mates?
haha, Spot-on,too I say.
I lived in Oz for a bit, and man, they do love their slco, but then again, it made me driking the way I did alright too! :P
Haha funny list.
Wouldn't know, but it's definitely hilarious.
lmao soooo truuuu
Haha, that's good.
@namburgers@xanga - I'm with you, mate.
Australia suddenly sounds funner than Canada.
@bella_esperanza@xanga - You don't know the stereotypes, huh? It's really funny. I know them all -- esp. these four countries.
@WinsomeWorld@xanga - Let me know loh. :P
@bella_esperanza@xanga - What the blog said is pretty close. But one has to "experience" it to really appreciate the humor behind it.
@WinsomeWorld@xanga - Oh wait, I was confused. I don't know why I was thinking about Chinese, Koreans and Japanese. :P But yeah, I agree with you, in regards to the Americans, Aussies, Brits and Canadians, I cannot tell the difference because I don't have much experience in this! Even though my beau is American and I have Aussie relatives :P
Awesome. Just, awesome. I know an Aussie and two Canadians, and thankfully, they don't bring up sports.Â
Awesome!!!
Many a true word spoken, ingest. Nice find.