anti-war march again
Mar. 13th, 2003 12:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miriam_eToday (Friday 14th) at 5pm in front of the State Library.
Let's make it bigger and better than the last one.
Maybe we can make little Johnny realise how alone he is.
miriam_eToday (Friday 14th) at 5pm in front of the State Library.
Let's make it bigger and better than the last one.
Maybe we can make little Johnny realise how alone he is.
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Re:
Date: 2003-03-12 11:02 pm (UTC)No, for the most part nobody in the US even thinks of Australia. When I think of English-speaking countries I think...well, there's US, Canada, England, Ireland, the Falkland Islands (are those still British?) and...oh yeah, the Land Down Under. Do they really speak like Crocodile Dundee? I even forget it's a continent sometimes.
We really do tend to forget you guys. You're not Europe, you're not Asia, you don't have oil (do you?), you don't grow drugs (do you?), and we didn't enslave you.
Think of the bright side of things: Everyone (except the Irish, who are alcoholics -- I can say that because I have the same ethanol running through my veins) who speaks English and isn't an American is automatically considered lame. Canadians are made fun of all the time (51st staters!). The British are tea-drinking pansies who haven't been able to get their shit together since Churchill. We hardly ever think of the Aussies, and when we do, it's "Shrimp on the Barbie" or some stupid "Crocodile Dundee" thing (so many stereotypes come from that movie). Be glad we don't think about you. We'd probably make fun of you.
I'm sure it would make John Howard feel a lot better to know that Bush incorrectly promounces Aznar's, the Spanish leader's, name.