Being Australian

Being Australian- Jan 25^th 2013

Australia is located in the southern hemisphere just above Antarctica and next to New Zealand. It is considered one of the biggest islands in the world because it is surrounded by water and no land.  It is known for its kangaroos, emu’s, wombats and the occasional *buggee smugglers.

This brings me to being Australian. Am I a proud Australian? There are some things my people to that make me cringe, sometimes I feel embarrassed to be Australian because of the types of things people do. I have to say the moment when I felt most embarrassed about being Australian was when I was watching Big Brother and two of the house mates were teaching one of the other housemates who was British how Australians say Australia, they said “Don’t even pronounce the ‘Au’ just say ‘Stralia’”.  I can’t even begin how much of a *bogan I consider them to be.

People have a stereotype of Australia and how we live our lives. A lot of people in different countries think that we all ride to school on emu’s and we have kangaroos jumping around everywhere, but they couldn’t be more wrong. Too be honest I’ve never ever seen an emu or a wombat, and the only time I have seen a Kangaroo is when we go out to rural areas.

Recently, two YouTuber’s made a video about Australia and our terminology. They were British and they used words like ‘*Dunny’, ‘*G’day mate’ ‘*Snag’ and other words that I didn’t even understand and you would have thought that being Australian.

That’s all for known,

Keep dreaming xox

* Buggee Smugglers- male swimwear, speedos

* Bogan- Australian’s who possess no form of class whatsoever

* Dunny- Toilet

* G’day Mate- Hello friend

* Snag- Sausage