Aboriginal Boomerangs
Posted in aboriginal art on 10/26/2009 09:05 am by admin
Whats the average an American would know about Australia?
Most people refer Australians as Aboriginal like
“Hah, enjoy that boomerang and Kangaroo?”
God, We have modern cities almost like America (- Millions of High Rise)
We arent all “Gday Mate, Howzit goin?”
We are VERY knowledgeable about USA, But the fact is you dont know much about us,
From my experience with Americans, the majority of them don’t know very much about our country at all.
If I was a howling bigot, I’d say it’s because they’ve got their heads rammed too far up their egotistical arses to notice anything happening that doesn’t involve them.
But I’m not a bigot, so I’ll put it down to Australia being a remote continent, separated from other continents by vast oceans on all sides.
America is huge. It is a massive, massive country– ten times our population I believe. Also ten times the average crime rate, but that’s not for now. =p
When I’ve talked to Americans, they seem to be under the general belief that we have kangaroos hopping down our main roads, that koalas are everywhere, and that life for us is something like a Crocodile Dundee film.
Maybe they think this because that’s all they’ve seen.
Hollywood doesn’t exactly promote the average Aussie– it focuses on the ocker stereotype: Crododile Dundee, Steve Irwin, etc.
It seems that Hollywood tells the truth, so they see a movie and apparently believe it.
Last fortnight, Rove Live was shot from New York. A segment showed Rove walking around Times Square, asking random people who John Howard was. None of the people they aired could tell us who he is.
Is it ignorance? Arrogance? Stupidity? All of the above?
Or has Australia not become important enough to America to be recognised?
Afterall, we only have the world’s best drinking water, largest uranium deposits, I think we’ve got the third largest reserves of copper and iron ore, some of the globe’s best athletes, the world’s best beef (untainted by mad cow disease), some of the finest quality wool and the most amazing medical research centres available.
Who found 2 vaccines for cervical cancer? We did.
Who leads the world in cancer research? We do.
Who wins the cricket and swimming? We do.
Who’s meat lacks diseases such as mad cow and bird flu? Ours does.
Lower crime rates than America? Half the world, but essentially: we do.
Who loves their country without being irritatingly patriotic? We do.
Only thing we lack is a few nuclear warheads. Apparently we need a few of those to be taken seriously.
Boomerang Lesson from Aboriginal
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