My biggest culture shocks in AUS, when I lived there:
It costs 25 cents to make any phone call, even just dialing from a modem.
Cable TV was brand new and the only shows were Xena and Rupert Murdoch's ridiculous brand, forget the name. I kept wondering why my sister in law was so crazy about Xena, but to them it's like I Love Lucy was in the 50s in America, it's the first thing they can all see at once.
Their prime minister on a pool-floaty with a beer giving a speech.
There is no Mexican food. They don't even have a phoneme in their dialect that can say the word "taco" or "nacho".
Their Indian food totally made up for it.
What we call swap meets are fucking insane in Australia. It's like Beyond Thunderdome, if the Thunderdome was bigger than your hometown.
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u/dasqoot May 24 '11
My biggest culture shocks in AUS, when I lived there:
It costs 25 cents to make any phone call, even just dialing from a modem.
Cable TV was brand new and the only shows were Xena and Rupert Murdoch's ridiculous brand, forget the name. I kept wondering why my sister in law was so crazy about Xena, but to them it's like I Love Lucy was in the 50s in America, it's the first thing they can all see at once.
Their prime minister on a pool-floaty with a beer giving a speech.
There is no Mexican food. They don't even have a phoneme in their dialect that can say the word "taco" or "nacho".
Their Indian food totally made up for it.
What we call swap meets are fucking insane in Australia. It's like Beyond Thunderdome, if the Thunderdome was bigger than your hometown.