CULTURE SHOCK| Life in Australia 

She'll be clackers mate 😁😂

can only disagree mate..lived in Qld for 16 years..lived in NSW and Mel for nearly40...just find friendliness is universal...

@@jaynemeulman8484 I don't mean exclusively so or that other states are not friendly . Just Queenslanders are more so in my experience.

Yeah, soo friendly. Until you say "I'm from Tasmania".

@@jaynemeulman8484 how are you going to disagree with someone’s experience lol

queensland doesnt have cities. only country towns with lots of people. NSW Vic and SA have cities and country towns.

yep. Gen x and up use the negative, younger ones influenced by US culture. Everything is "awesome".

Make it yourself. Its just strong instant coffee with sweetened condensed milk and ice. Haha

@Paul Moody holy crap you should see me try to communicate with my Dutch grandparents. . . They can't understand a fucking thing I say lol, wasn't even remotely aware how fast us Aussies talk until I went overseas. . . Then get a few drinks into us and we put Busta Rhymes to shame just via casual convo :D

I just discovered a 24/7 health hotline. It's very helpful too :)

why would it be easier to goto Vietnam than Thailand?

It’s interesting. I suppose the idea of going to a cafe in many parts of Australia is to socialise. However I have gone to cafes, and felt comfortable sitting with a book or paper. It’s a bit hard to say as it’s been a few years since I have tried to do this.

I found this video very informative and a pleasure to watch but an absence of cafe culture? The fact that Starbucks was mentioned pretty much says it all. Brisbane has plenty of beautiful cafe's and lots of ppl enjoying it's cafe culture.

I felt a bit depressed when I first moved here because it's such a small town haha But I love it here now. I had a short trip to Sydney and I feel the bustling city is no longer my taste.

@@confusedavocado5787 thanks for the reply. Appreciate it. Hope to see you in Brisbane when I got the chance to get there. Are you staying there for good? I agree, such a small but wonderful town. I envy you for going to Sydney. I booked a flight back then to Melbourne to meet a friend but unfortunately I missed my flight. I ended up eating to a Filipino restaurant (comfort food) and met a very good Filipino family who drove me around and show me Brisbane. :) I wish I get their contact so I can stay in touch and show how grateful I am to this day.

When I went to High School across the motorway from Garden City we called it Garbo back then and that was in the 1980’s- shortened from ‘Garbage City’ - Australian ironic humour.

@@neumanmachine3781 High School was garbage. *smirks

Really! I often spent my whole day w friends at a cafe too. We often worked together there. It’s nice to hear that the Philippines has similar cafe culture! 😃

Same as Japan, wifi is free here too.

In Oz Macca's is a substitute for your Café culture, and you'll get a better coffee there than at Starbucks, plus they're much easier to find than Starbucks. Café culture in Oz is more like Europe i'm told. If you decide to come to Oz, don't worry you'll be speaking Tagalog before you know it.

That would be revolutionary!!! I grew up being taught not flushing tp and always had troubles doing so 🤣 I also need some more confirmations from Viet!

Its all not flushing toiletpaper throught Burma laos thai kambucha and vietnam. And they think its gross we dont use water. They say if you have crap on your arm will you wash it or use paper?

What do you do with the toilet paper if you don't flush it?

Good and bad. But it is quite friendly still I think. The bus driver thanks thing is certainly something Brissos do do though. I really like that

I moved to Australia from India 4 days ago. It's not been long but still, there are a lot of things done differently here as compared to my home country. Trying to adjust :)

@@darkprincess1595 You will be fine. Just remember we have our problems. Some people are assholes and some are good. We have a large indian community so you wont feel alone 😊

@@darkprincess1595 One thing to remember is that we are more "country" than other western countries. Here in Perth we are very relaxed. Some of us are loud and seem low class but our culture was influenced by England. We didnt like the class system and we rebeled. So now class isnt strong. Rich and poor can have a beer. We dont see cleaners or drivers to be low class. Work is work and australians see all work as important. Ive heard Africans see this as strange. Maybe indians too. I have a problem with someone about 5 or 6 times a year. They want to give me crap. So if you have a problem with someone who is just being stupid, dont worry. We all do. Dont take it personally. Just ignore it or say something back. Up to you. Some boss are horrible. So please see us as individuals. Some good and some bad. But its not dangerous with crime like other places. Have you spoken to other indians that live here? They might tell you the same. Its a beautiful country and all australians love it. So please dont say its bad to australians. It will cause problems. We like to think we are perfect haha. Also you will see that people who are here for a long time will act like australians and joke like we do. Its joking and making fun of others in the australian way. So just watch what we do. And if someone is an kunt please understand we know some people are bad, but we see expression as important. Say hello when walking past someone. Just a quick nod of the head and gday. Its just what we do. Mostly. Good luck. I hope you do well here. Maybe i dont make sense right now but when you live here a while you will see what i mean.

Trow it in a trash can I guess.

In the places I stayed in Vietnam that did not allow flushing of toilet paper, they had plastic bag lined wastepaper basket next to the toilet bowl for the disposal of the used toilet paper.

hahaha dangggg~ yes. I totally missed it!

@@confusedavocado5787 still a fantastic job tho 😋

Is specifically bad in Brisbane and GC compared to say Sydney or Melbourne.

Opinion not fact

@darrylcullen2409 lol... you are an idiot. What I do in my house is not an opinion. Travelled vietnam the last two decades, plenty relatives there who are civil engineers. Also corruption is a big problem there too

Kinda blown away with that Tim. Bad day perhaps mate?

It’s a Sydney thing. I’m from Brisbane but live in Sydney and it’s a different attitude down here, the attitude is more pushy and ’me first’. It also has the largest foreign born population in Australia (more than 40%) and the lowest % of people with both parents born in Australia- so there are more international outlooks. A lot of Sydney people are considered to be jerks when they behave in their usual manner in Queensland, especially when they’re on holidays or just moved up there. After a while most of them lose attitude and chill out with the locals.

Singaporeans are pretty westernised to me, still they also have a lot of tranditional Asian values. That's my personal impression 🤔

Lee was an Anglophile and consciously modeled (some) Western ways.

There’s no Cabramatta / Springvale type suburb in Brisbane

@@hanzocloud There’s Inala (and Darra), both are smaller scale than their Sydney and Melbourne counterparts because the Vietnamese population is a lot smaller in Brisbane. Inala plaza is the closest thing to BKK plaza / John Street Cabramatta in Brisbane.

please explain...in what way is Australia not a western country...???