Originally Posted by
DasProfezzional
Wait, you guys have your own slang? No way! I know of no other society that can boast thusly.
Maybe that's the problem. The world doesn't know who your president is, if you have one, or anything about your government or politics or current events. Nobody knows if you have any monuments, or anything worth visiting, aside from an opera house in a city whose name I personally only remember because it was the central focus of a Mary-Kate and Ashley movie. Your country hasn't produced any world-changing literature, or music, or art. When Americans (vis, the world,) think about Australia, we think about dingoes, kangaroos, bigass jellyfish, g'day, and shrimp on the barbie, which is, apparently, a term that you don't even use. To the rest of the world, your country is defined by a stereotypical greeting, which the rest of the world happens to now find cheesy and stupid, as somebody mentioned earlier.
I'm glad you love your country, and I'm glad you're proud of it. But Americans, nay, the people of the industrialized world really doesn't care, because you've got absolutely nothing that they don't. Except for poisonous snakes, coneshells, and huge spiders.
Congratulations! That's one of the most ignorant posts of the year. You're not the same guy that boasted about speaking four languages and visiting all those countries, are you?
Just because you don't know who John Howard is, doesn't meant that others don't. You've never heard of Ayer's Rock, The Great Barrier Reef, the rainforests of FNQ, Darling Harbour, or the beaches of the Gold Coast? The outback isn't just a crap US restaurant either.
Australia's definitely been weak in producing popular music enjoyed all over the world. Except for a few small time bands and singers like AC/DC, Inxs, Olivia Newton John, Kylie Minogue, the Bee Gees, Midnight Oil, Australia's got nothing, so I guess you were right about that.
What cracks me up about your post is that you seem to want to take all the credit for America's literature, music, and art. And yet, all of that is a product of immigrants from other countries. With the exception of native American Indians, anything American is really English, European, African, Asian, or South American. Of course, you don't seem to want to take credit for ruining both the economy
and the environment, which greedy America has been very good at.
Australia's got plenty that the US doesn't have. Luckily, it doesn't have ignorant tools like you.