Are you an AUSTRALIAN?

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Dan

Yes. I am Australian.

The gift of being born here makes me an Australian but that is just the foundation. We celebrate Australia Day - going to the beach and throwing a barbie with friends and family and having a few beers.

Like everyone else,we also celebrate Christmas and New Years. Some also choose to celebrate events from other cultures such as Chinese New Year, which is popular here in Australia.

My family is barely religious. We are Roman Catholic but we don't go to Church.

Our culture is unique as we Australians enjoy being outdoors more than other countries. The beach, sporting events, etc. has become icons of our country.

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What makes us Australian is our humour and sense of mateship, the larrakin trait many of us have. We're a bunch of jokers, but underneath it all, we're there for each other.

We celebrate Australia Day, January 26, the day Captain Cook arrived here with the first European settlers. Christmas, Easter, Rememberence Day, Nov 11, there's a minute silence at 11.00am to remember all the soldiers who died in battles. We have no Halloween here, some people will try and do it with the begging for lollies but everyone else is just like you're being stupid, we don't do that here.

Australia is not a very religious country (not counting all the migrants, we're full of Asians and Greeks who have their religions), majority of people don't really follow any religion. Or they are kind of religious but don't actually do anything religious if you know what I mean. They might say they're a religion but never go to church or anything, because that's not the norm here. Like we all celebrate Christmas and Easter, but more just as a day with family and the commercial aspect of it, not the whole jesus story or whatever it is.

They're not religious but values most Australians have are those of mateship, doing the right thing, still having a beer and a laugh, but getting the work done as well.

There aren't really 'places or spiritual/culture significance'. I mean there's Ayers Rock, but majority of people have never seen it (I have!) and only the Aboriginal people of the area have any spiritual connection to it. I guess you could say the footy oval is a place of cultural significance, almost everybody here follows the AFL (Australian Football League, 1000 times better than any other football game). Or the barbeque, I'm yet to meet an Australian who doesn't have a barbie out the back.

There also aren't really any myths or legends. We're only a young country. Of course, there are the Aboriginal Dreamtime stories about the creation of the world and everything, which we learn a little bit about in Primary school, however noone whose not Aboriginal really knows them.

The sense of mateship is a big one in Aus. You always stick up for a mate and never leave one behind. The diggers we all know about, the terrible conditions they fought in, the people back home helping, that Christmas truce.

I'm not sure where you're going with the beach and the outback bit, so I'll just say some stuff about them. I think it's 90+% of Australians live on the coast, all our cities hug the beaches, it's a huge part of life here. Many people have a beach house to go to in the summer (which of course is Dec-Feb here). It's not unusual to spend a whole month wearing nothing but a bikini. The outback is somewhere not that many people actually go, despite the majority of our country being made up of it, but it's so incredible. Those that do 'go bush' (go into the outback) remember it forever. Last year my school took all 100 or so of us year 11 students on a bus right up the middle of the country, to Uluru and Alice Springs right up to Darwin and back down again, it was awesome. Sleeping under the stars in just a sleeping bag on the side of the highway with your best friends is something everyone should do. There's such a vast sense of space out there. You can drive a whole day without passing a town.

Anyway, I hope that helps!

dirtylilsecret

yes i am 5th generation Australian, and i love it!!

there is nothing about me that makes me particularly 'Australian', the only reason being that i was born here....all Australians are different....i think that people from other countries would think that most of us are ''bogan'' which is like another term for ''redneck''.....but we're not....

i personally celebrate Australia Day..i just love sitting back at the beach and having a beer and a BBQ, watching the sunset and fireworks..Im personally not religious, im agnostic so i dont really know what i believe in, i just know somethings out there.

theboywhocriedwoof

I'm an Aussie.

a)I was born here!
b)Australia Day
c)Nowhere
d)No Religion for me
e)What does that even mean?

Maybe you could do the research yourself, seeing as how you're so keen to find out about us

Ania A

hahaha...like any real aussie would take the time out to answer this, we r all to busy getting pissed on VB mate!

mango, punch.

WOOOOO AUSTRALIA!
best country in the world. shittest weather in the world. but i wouldn't ever live anywhere else mateeee!
but yeah "Super" said it all and is 100% correct. read her answer through and there you go :)

C.M. C

I am Canadian, love it down there and would love to become a citizen. I have a strict policy when it comes to religion and politics, I keep them very separate and too myself, people have different views.

Chris

oldemystic

Super: from your good-natured answer you seem like a sensible young girl, so I won't berate you too much for your statement that Captain Cook landed with settlers on Australia Day (actually it was Governor Phillip :) )

I must however gently chide your opinion that there are no 'places or spiritual/culture significance'. Any true Australian sees these places everywhere in this wide beautiful country, whether it be gazing at the splendour of Ayers Rock, the sunset over brigalow desert, sunrise over the ocean, sounds of the rainforest. (You said as much yourself in your last para with your experience of the outback.)
I'm just an old fart, but I still get plenty of catches in the throat whilst touring this land.

John W

How many pages of answers should I write for you?

Have you even thought about Google, Wikipedia and the likes?

Anoymous

sheikgirl15

No. Norwegian.

BriaRose

what does Bosvin B mean by "I was inducted into Aussiehood at the tender at of 8 years old when i killed me first aborigine." aborigine? does he mean aboriginal? and is he saying that we kill aboriginals???????????????????????????
if so **** OFF YOU KNOW NOTHING.

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Je suis un chat!

Bosvin B

I am glad you are doing your work, I would be glad to help your studies....

I was inducted into Aussiehood at the tender at of 8 years old when i killed me first aborigine. we celebrate this every year as my true birthday. mostly because it changed me life forever. Religions value... Me does not have huge religious values.. i like religious spices and herbs that take me to a higher plain ahhhhhh....

No myths I know of besides this answer

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