Australia's Strengths NOBODY Talks About | Americans React 

I am a 70 yr old Australian and I don't know the surname of hardly anyone. I would think I was being arrested if someone called me "Mrs"

In Australia we go to school to learn not to be stylish. School uniforms shut down a lot f the "look at me" crap.

School uniforms make it very easy to identify anyone in the school who shouldn't be there. It has a safety role.

I am so stoked to see Maka back and to be honest I'm starting to like her more and more, you guys really brightened my day today x best wishes with the pregnancy, can't wait to see lil Neal Jnr

The school uniforms, at least at the government school I work at, are all the same brand. Kids that can’t afford the school uniform usually have it supplied by the school through different programs. It also means kids don’t have to think about what to wear each day.

Basic school uniforms are the go. And most schools have second hand clothing for free. A lot of families donate once their kids get big, so there is a pool for struggling families. Shout out to The Smith Family! ❤ Doing great work helping poor students.

Hello and congratulations to you both on expecting a baby. I'm now a grandfather, and it's the best job ever. Being parents is the most rewarding and frustrating job you will ever have. I wish you both a successful birth and a healthy baby.

A baby! Congratulations guys. Sooo happy for you! 💗

This video is an example of the internet at its best! Ordinary people reaching out to anyone, anywhere who wants to watch and listen and learn from real people. Great channel.

congratulations.

So wonderful to hear you're both expecting an addition to your lovely family. You can usually tell if a letter or correspondence is going to be not what you really want to see when it's addressed Dear Mr/Mrs/Ms (surname) instead of Dear (first name).

Hi guys, good to see Macca back! There is a good reason some restaurants do not accept cash, it's to discourage robberies. That is also the reason for the sign which informs people that there is no cash on the premises. Doctors and Dentists do the same thing. These businesses are often dealing with very large sums of money and are a tempting target for thieves. With out cash you not only protect the business from losing money, but you also protect the customers and the employees who could very well get hurt during a robbery. Thanks for the video and congratulations on the forthcoming addition to the family!! All my very best wishes.

I'm an Aussie. If someone addressed me as Mr. Beames or Sir I'd be gobsmacked.

Congratulations

School shootings where the bodies have to be identified by their clothing. What sort of guns do you have over there?

Uniforms are labelled with your name inside. You get to save your better clothes outside.

Congrats guys 🎉

The only thing that I can say about the use of uniforms is they are identifiable, when students are on outings. If you're a parent and there's a school shooting and you can't describe your child by their physical features then you have a problem, don't blame that the fact they're wearing a uniform, especially when some clothing labels are popular and you don't know what other kids are wearing on that day! Even in a school situation were students wears a uniform, you can do other things, to identify YOUR OWN CHILD, like hairstyles and accessories! Uniforms are the great equalizer, placing all students on the same level, well they are supposed to! When my daughter went to school her FEMALE classmates/ bullies would go on and on about how her clothes were secondhand. As a child of a single mother, they would bully her for everything and that included her so called "secondhand uniform". I might have raised my daughter entirely on my own but everything she has is brand new. To the detriment of my own health and the point of starvation, my daughter would never have gone without. What she got was items that she "needed" not "wanted" unlike her classmates. School is not where you go for a popularity contest.

School uniforms were brought in to kinda squash in-school bullying in Britain as a whole (in the early 90s), when not having the latest style thing. Schools would/will fight with other schools still because of social things, uniforms included in that mix to differentiate between each other. But were mainly preplanned, a kinda tribal mentality to some degree. These only really happened if an innocent was hurt before it, then was organised. Teachers didn't really have a clue most of the time unless a gobshite grassed/snitched. I'm guessing that something similar happens in the States. A punch-up, and not guns and such involved.

Should just be a 5 second video that says "Fuckin everything, mate!"

Congratulations on your pregnancy 👏

I was crankn the Addias Romes, Dunlop KT26, the classic ripples or Coverse All Stars for skateboarding they use to be 11 bucks a pair, full bogan shoes apart from the Converse 😂

ALot of school here, well in Brisbane anyway, the uniforms come from same stores, so very similar regardless

Congratulations! 🎉

Congrats guys on the pregnancy and marriage did i hear. Great to see you back Mackenzie. Another awesome video guys See you next time around 🤙😎🇦🇺

There aren’t brands of uniform. Most schools sells their uniform at the school uniform shop and you can’t get it anywhere else as it’s specific to the school.

I went to a Private School during the 70s and 80s, not because we had Money, but my Single Mother got special dispensation on Fees, they allowed a certain number of these in those Schools. That kinda put me on the back Foot socio-economically, and that was an issue with many things with bullying. The Uniforms all came from a single Manufacturer, and every year the School would have Second-Hand Uniforms for sale, which is how we got ours. It was the same with Textbooks, second hand was how we got them too. Bullying was bad enough within this, but the couple of ‘Casual Days’ we had in the year were terrible, and I didn’t look forward to them, unless Mum happened to be able to buy something new, which was rare. So, School Uniforms definitely reduced the bullying for sure.

Congratulations!

Haha omg Victory. We had that brand in Australia I think in the early 90's. I thought they were awesome. My normal school shoes were "Aerosport" which was notoriously cheap. The only popular brandname clothing I had was socks.

In Australia the difference between a friend and a mate is a mate will help you hide the body.

Congrats on the preggo, hope it all goes well. I think school uniforms is a good idea, it forms a particular discipline from a young age. The twist tops story reference the beer is an interesting one, I don't know one single person that has ever done that, it's the twist metal tiny lids I think he's talking about if he's talking about beers, and I mean not many people carry a bottle opener on them. Although, a company in Australia did bring out a plastic, twist lid beer that looked like a coke bottle; Carlton Cold I think it was, and it was disgusting so it didn't hang around for long.

No other nation embraces new technology like Australia.

Nice to see the Misses back 😎

G'day Guys! I always have some cash with me and recently that was a relief! I was at the supermarket checkout went to pay with my card and there was a problem at my bank so card declined...Fortunately I had just enough cash for my $140 worth of groceries! Cheers!

I turned up to a boxing match here recently with all cash and I had no idea the arena is card only. Had to use my mates card all night and pay him back lol.

In USA, cards become popular in my opinion due to two factors.... Firstly: Prices shown are NOT what you actually pay. So it is impossible to see if you have the right amount in existing cash in the pocket. Nasty is thinking you can make correct cash then finding that you have to track some larger note, as change in hand falls short. Now you get a bundle of smaller cash notes as the cash register has larger notes temoved for robbery security, plus a whole handful of change. Card payment no issue what it costs, charged is whatever it is. I suspect many people hardly bother even to look at the prices and what is actually spent on all those smaller card charges. Maybe even annoyed at month end by all the many small charges accumulated, but soon go on month after month no changes to spending. You see that snack or smaller item and just charge it on the card, spending out if mind. Secondly: TIPPING, with constant tipping, now so ubiquitous it is automated as significant percent, even offering to increase to seeming rediculous tips. So knowing what a meal, service, purchase costs before commiting is impossible. Hard to know if cash on hand versus expected restaurant cost is too much gamble. With cards the final cost is irrelevant at the instant, only end of month budget. But ease of adding default, often too significant tips, and now even tips in instances tips are inappropriate, now are becoming so standard to be added like a new tax on every transaction. Most card users are not even aware how much of the bill is Tips. Another Card topic is CREDIT vs DEBIT. IN Europe Credit cards are nearly absent Debit cards drawing payment immediately from account balance is almost only choice, except Diners, AMEX, Thomas Cook. Most banks no option. In Australia Credit cards remain common, though many people go to Debit cards, to avoid running cost up to level they can not pay in the interest free timing, getting further and further in high interest charged debt. For those able to pay full balance Credit of up to 55 days is fantastic though some have started reducing free time to 40 days, so a statement at end of month is due 2 weeks earlier than before. Cash advances on Credit card accrue interest from day of taking cash, while debit comes from existing account immediately so never interest payable. So many Credit card users take advantage of drawing cash at supermarket checkout, you get cash but not as an cash advance, just part of grocery bill. The supermarket gets rid of cash accumulated from shoppers purchases,meaning they have far less money to send to the banks by armoured car services, and reduced cash on site reducing robbery potential. Not I unusual for a dhopper with say $300 groceries, adding $200 cash drawn out at the cash register.

School uniforms were bought in for Aussie's was for safety so they know who is from that School and while you're child is wearing the uniform out of school is still representing the school they are in and can still get consequences if they do anything wrong from the school for still having their uniform on instead of going home and getting changed I'm not sure if that still happens though I grew up without uniforms but my children did and for primary school I got most of the uniforms from the school otherwise it cost to much to keep up with them growing I got them cheap through the tuckshop

You guys are adorable 🥰

School uniforms within each state have, for each schoo,l a variety of two tone colours or shades of the same colours. It's amazing the amoht of individual colur pairings that are never repeated across the city and suburban areas. eg. White and every shade of blue from navy thru to turquoise. Then again with black or any other colour for the base and the school picks the blues or any other shade of another colour for creating the two toning. Also a huge variety of clothing to choose. Pants: boys micro fibre, cargo, track, shorts. girls have all same as boys plus summer dress, skirt, skort, winter tunic. Tops: boys and girls, polo shirt, micro fibre zip up wind cheater, track top jumper (sweater), track hoodie jacket. Wear whatever shoes you like as some kids need foot support trainers, as long all are closed shoes. There really is no brand rivalry in the culture here, unless it is the anti any brand culture (big corporations making money out of people with over priced products exploiting overseas sweat shop labour..and all that.) Some just ignore it though and take the casual joking ' Shame! " ribbing they get. It's a personal choice basically. Congrats on babe btw👍

School uniforms in Australia had to be from the same supplier, otherwise the colour or look would not match. Plus some uniforms are too distinct and no other company makes the pattern ot design. The only thing that you could get away with is shoes...but they had to match as close as possible to a certain style and colour...so there really wasn't many choices to boast about.

School uniform here in Australia are prescriptive, even shoes black lace up and sport shoes white. Schools have their own sport uniform for sport day and no brands only school logo. I went to school in UK it was uniforms there also. PS no school shootings

Yes school unforms are bought at school or an official supplier so everything is the same here(Aussie)

I wish my family had stayed in Australia. I would have an Aussie accent by now and be having a barbie every fakin day, drinking stubbies.

im 60 and an aussie . if someone calls me mr or sir , my reply is . my dads mr rowlands , im dave lol

Asian owned businesses are mostly cash only. Easier to h8de profits

Yep I'm and Aussie🇦🇺, I barely know anyone's last name.

Congratulations on your pregnancy ❤🎉😊

Beer top's are TWISTIE'S !

How bad are the schools/teacher if they cant identify a missing student from their class?

Hate people calling me by my last name. They make ya feel weird, we like to be just like everyone else no one's that really important.🇭🇲

i was taught , you dont call ppl sir , unless theyve been knighted , lol

Wedding pics? 🥂👌.

Luckily we don't have school shootings in Australia.

Me and my doctor address eachother by our first names all the time. "How are you Bradley?" "Good thanks Felix, yourself?." Even back when I had an alcohol problem and got in trouble with the law, every officer I dealt with was always on a first name basis. The only time I ever remember using Ms/Mrs/Mr was when I was in school.

It shocks me that you have normalised school shootings, you just accept them as just an American thing - how frightening must it be to be a child in the US.

Kids shouldn't get the choice to be individuals...that occurs when they become adults.

Old or young introduce their selse's by their first name in Australia.

Wow, How to identify your dead kid is a thing people think about in the US? So sad.

Everyone first name is khant he talked more about German Nazi then Aussie

School uniforms in Australia are mandatory. But also each school has spares for those having trouble affording them. Also we have school fees . But all of this is partially covered or offset would be a better word by goverment subsidies for the lower income bracket . Usually nearly covering uniforms at least each year.

Schools usually specify the uniform and which shops sell it. They tend to not necessarily be the cheapest options, but they are generally based on reasonable costs (so even the poorer families can buy the uniform,) durability, etc, so there is no noticeable brand differences between student's uniforms. While there is more choice in other school necessities, there still is a lot of standardization because big stores offer stationery kits that have the same basics in them. Computers can vary, but my kids went to a high school that provided every student with an iPad, but different schools will do different things on that sort of thing.

Why are you doing repeat videos? 🙄

It's so sad that your minds went straight to school shootings any having to identify your kids by what they wear. Growing up in Sydney, I loved not having to think about what to wear every day. Uniform not only puts all the kids on an even playing field, it creates a sense of belonging. Glad school shootings aren't a thing anywhere else in the world, but in Australia, it'd be pretty easy to identify someone foreign to the school or carrying weapons, because THEY'D stand out amongst the students 💁🏽‍♀️ There are varying levels of how strict the high school uniforms are, but most are fairly lax and enforce the wearing of a standard collared shirt, pants/skirt, school sweater/jacket, school tie, black leather school shoes. Some schools will dictate skirt lengths (eg. Catholic schools might enforce skirts to the knees or longer) and haircuts (eg. some schools may not allow mullets or boys having long hair), but most kids who don't subscribe to a religion go to co-ed state schools that aren't as rigid. We were still able to express our individuality by how we wore our hair, what music we listened to, who we hung out with. Watching American TV, I was glad for uniforms, as the poor kids in those shows always seemed to get picked on for how they looked/dressed.