Yeah I mean, we've been heavily influenced by the US and UK historically, so we have a deeply racist disposition. Our treatment of Indigenous Australians is as much of a blight on our history as it is for other English-speaking nations like the US, Canada and South Africa. I do still strongly believe we're doing better in a lot of ways, for example we've started using indigenous place names, acknowledging traditional land ownership and other steps. But we're far from perfect, and if you come here with that conceptualisation then you'll definitely be disappointed.

Yeah the cut the tall poppy syndrome is rampant there.

They celebrate alcoholism.

It’s still legal to hit children in certain states

In fact domestic violence was pretty normalized and women in droves die per year to it.

And they think the rest of the world is going soft by trying to be more inclusive in minority rights. Women in particular.

I mean it has some appeal with the beaches but yea, the people are still 1970s -1980s chauvinistic crowd.

I will give them this though: they do look after people with disabilities a heck of a lot better than another countries I’ve seen. Never mind ‘the elevator broke.’. That shit doesnt fly there not even for a second. And they did stomp down the classism way more than UK attempted to.

Understandable.

I know a few Australians and they are racist and nasty.

I know one who is kind, though.