Your definition of "Aussie"?

That's true! We're so dumb

 

I understand the majority of Australians don't travel internationally. I personally don't call Australians having a weeks vacation indulging in sex, drugs and alcohol in Bali and near-by local Islands international travel, but some might. When Australians travel to Europe; especially outside Britain. They are totally surprised how savvy and "switched on" the majority of Europeans are towards their politicians, Governments and political system; compared to the knowledge the majority of Australians know about their own. Its really sad, but the majority of Europeans are at least a decade or more intellectually advanced over the majority of Australians.

No one has to believe me, just go and look for yourself.

 

I believe you.

 

Yeah mate..its your shout....did ya see the footy last nite.....

 

I wouldn't see why not. Say a white dude from South Africa, born and raised there with a family that lived there a couple of hundred years is actually more African that most blacks here in the states that were born here. I hate hyphenization. The strange thing about hyphenization is my wife who is from Thailand going to class to become an American citizen was taught in classes given by the INS that there was no such thing as a hyphenated American. That we were all Americans regardless of race, color, creed or where we came from.

But I suppose all this hyphenization is all part of the government divide and conquer strategy.

 

I had an in-country R&R while I was station in Vietnam down to Vung Tau where an Aussie Air Wing was stationed. They sure know how to party. I always had the utmost respect for their military. I also knew a couple who lived in the same apartment complex in Bangkok on Soi I. We partied hard as we ran the bars and the gals.

Perhaps the military is a bit different.

 

You nailed it - no different really. Australian politicians just keep them amused by buying them $10 billion dollars worth of expensive toys to play with.

 

We always heard our troops were awesome in vietnam. The media always focuses on our "defeat" at Galipoli. You'd think they were trying to demoralize us

 

Back then the media and the very loud angry anti-war protesters were doing the same for us, the U.S. military. After Vietnam at least in the states, the military was considered the scum of the earth. But yes, the Aussies were great in Vietnam. So too were the Koreans and Thai's.

One of the biggest problem was the media listen to the minority of protesters since they were the loudest along with congress. But the Aussies, Koreans and Thai's all earned my enduring respect. Besides they were fun to party with.

 

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It usually means a person from Australia but recent immigrants who cannot speak English with an Aussie accent cannot be a real Australian. When I came across a young Chinese shop assistant at a bookshop, who was fluent in Aussie English as she may have been born in the country, I thought she was an Aussie.

 

A few years ago I had a beer with a American Vietnam vet while I was in Vietnam. He was visiting the battle sites around the country. His words, the toughest dudes he's ever met were the Australian Military Police and New Zealand SAS. Not to be fcuked with he reckons.

 

He must have met them on a rare day that a beer was not in their hand, or their undies around their ankles.

 

From personal experience, undies around your ankles?

 

Is it just me, or when Lily was doing her Australian inflection during the interview, she sounded like she was intellectually challenged?

Australians don't understand, but that is how they sound to the rest of the world when they talk their slang/gibberish - intellectually challenged

"Aussie oi oi oi"

 

Lets just say the reputation of AMP's in Asia precedes them.

 

Perhaps I met them on a good day. Vung Tau was a great place for an R&R back then. I never crossed them, just drank and ran the bars.