CULTURE SHOCK| Life in Australia
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 พ.ค. 2024
- 9 weird things about Australia that you probably want to know before coming!
0:00 - Intro
0:59 - Australians love small talks
2:15 - Australians are super positive
3:00 - Aussie slangs
5:22 - Wages and Rents are weekly
5:45 - Healthcare
6:43 - Toilet paper
7:19 - Bus culture
8:11 - Shops close early
8:40 - Cafe culture
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I think the friendliness and positivity is especially a Queensland thing. Having been around a lot of Australia, I've noticed that Queenslanders are the friendliest bunch.
can only disagree mate..lived in Qld for 16 years..lived in NSW and Mel for nearly40...just find friendliness is universal...
@@jaynemeulman8484 I don't mean exclusively so or that other states are not friendly . Just Queenslanders are more so in my experience.
Yeah, soo friendly. Until you say "I'm from Tasmania".
@@jaynemeulman8484 how are you going to disagree with someone’s experience lol
queensland doesnt have cities. only country towns with lots of people. NSW Vic and SA have cities and country towns.
When bad things happen*
"She'll be right."
When good things happen*
"She'll be right"
😆
She'll be clackers mate 😁😂
Well done on fitting in so well and thanks for the perspective. I hope I can figure out how to have such positive experiences in Brisbane.
At 7:46..."Pretty chill," my favorite part! Great personality! Should have way more viewers and subscribers.
This is what I wanted to see. Someone other than an American or Canadian talk about the culture shock of living in Australia.
On #8: Here in Perth we have 2 grocery stores that are open 24 hours. Spudshed (all stores) and IGA (some stores).
I think the super positive thing is a younger person thing. Older generations may be more restrained and often say “That’s not bad.” To be really positive say, “That’s not bad” followed by “Not bad at all.”
My partner (who works for an American company) once said to an American colleague that something was ‘not bad’ and offended his colleague mightily😉
yep. Gen x and up use the negative, younger ones influenced by US culture. Everything is "awesome".
Great to see that you're enjoying living in the land downunder.
I get your cultural shock when you moved to Australia, mine was the other way around I lived in Vietnam for awhile. But yes walk into any coffee shop, fast food restaurant, right down to the family run eateries in Vietnam and you will always get wi-fi, lol no not the street vendors. But what I miss about Vietnam is the vibe of the markets, day or night and the iced coffee, I am yet to find a coffee shop here in Briz Vegas that can make a Vietnamese iced coffee that's any good.
Make it yourself. Its just strong instant coffee with sweetened condensed milk and ice. Haha
Thanks for holding a mirror to my reality. I needed that.
Very enjoyable.
Medicare(Free health care) demands you firstly visit a GP and get referred.
Been to Vietnam twice loved it, the Vietnamese people I meet were awesome. Welcome young Lady TC
Ho Chi Minh City, please call it as it should be. Saigon. Hundreds of years this was it's name. Locals still call it Saigon. Greatest people there is and a wonderful place to visit. Looking forward to visiting Vietnam again, loved your TH-cam page. please keep up the good work.
Great video!!! So many things i didn't know about Australian culture. And about the accent, honestly i still find it hard to understand the Australians speaking. When watching a movie with Australians in it, normally i have to turn on the caption. Other than that i like their accent
@Paul Moody holy crap you should see me try to communicate with my Dutch grandparents. . . They can't understand a fucking thing I say lol, wasn't even remotely aware how fast us Aussies talk until I went overseas. . . Then get a few drinks into us and we put Busta Rhymes to shame just via casual convo :D
haha love your impression of australians, you're funny!
lol @ cheers mate to the bus driver. i love that you noticed that! haha it's so aussie.
I'm glad she said she's in Brisse I'm from Sydney and live in Melbourne and get culture shock when I visit my rellos in QLD can't you people open shops at decent hours and seven days a week
You can go to the GP to get a referral to a specialist. However, in an emergency or if you feel really bad at night, you can just walk into the emergency department of a hospital.
I just discovered a 24/7 health hotline. It's very helpful too :)
I feel that the positivism in Aussie culture depends on regions as well. I personally experience this positive culture is very popular in Adelaide, Brisbane but this is very rarely in industrial cities such as Sydney or Melbourne. I prefer realism, consumerism in culture of Sydney or Melbourne, while I feel unfamiliar with positivism in Australian culture when living in Adelaide. I guess it depends on individual’s cultural adaptability.
Ho Chi Minh is growing like crazy. They even have a few top notch Dental Clinics now that compete with the very famous Thailand Dental Clinics. I predict the Medical Tourism industry in Vietnam will grow by leaps and bounds since it appears to easier for Aussies and NZ people to go there instead of Thailand. Your videos are very informative. Thnx.
why would it be easier to goto Vietnam than Thailand?
i love avocado . tastes good lol .
I miss brisbane. I stayed in South Bank for 3 months. I used to hang out neae the wheel of brisbane just being entertained by the street performers and lights reflections on the south bank River.
Anyways, dis you ever felt depressed in your stay in Brisbane?
Keep it up! :)
I felt a bit depressed when I first moved here because it's such a small town haha But I love it here now. I had a short trip to Sydney and I feel the bustling city is no longer my taste.
@@confusedavocado5787 thanks for the reply. Appreciate it. Hope to see you in Brisbane when I got the chance to get there. Are you staying there for good?
I agree, such a small but wonderful town. I envy you for going to Sydney. I booked a flight back then to Melbourne to meet a friend but unfortunately I missed my flight. I ended up eating to a Filipino restaurant (comfort food) and met a very good Filipino family who drove me around and show me Brisbane. :) I wish I get their contact so I can stay in touch and show how grateful I am to this day.
You’ve got such a lovely accent 🥰
Thanks. A couple of qualifications, wages and rent can be fortnightly, rather than weekly. The absence of a cafe culture is a real drawback - true in places other than Brisbane.
It’s interesting. I suppose the idea of going to a cafe in many parts of Australia is to socialise. However I have gone to cafes, and felt comfortable sitting with a book or paper. It’s a bit hard to say as it’s been a few years since I have tried to do this.
I found this video very informative and a pleasure to watch but an absence of cafe culture? The fact that Starbucks was mentioned pretty much says it all.
Brisbane has plenty of beautiful cafe's and lots of ppl enjoying it's cafe culture.
an absolute beauty
Shortening Garden City to Garbo is a bit odd when garbo is someone whose job is to collect the rubbish from residential and industrial bins. lol
GP's have a role of discerning the specialist direction so people aren't hunting down an incorrect specialist. Psychologists aren't able to prescribe medications. That's the role of psychiatrists and GP's. Some medications and conditions can only be done by doctors in its specialist field. Psychologists are not able to officially diagnose but they can recommend to a panel of psychiatrists to confirm a diagnoses.
Yeah but Starbucks doesn't sell real coffee. heh
When I went to High School across the motorway from Garden City we called it Garbo back then and that was in the 1980’s- shortened from ‘Garbage City’ - Australian ironic humour.
@@neumanmachine3781 High School was garbage. *smirks
In Perth we all nod and say gday to strangers a lot. If im walking in the park or in my building. Only recent immigrants are shocked. But ones living here a while do it too 😁😁
Vietnam has the same Café culture here in the Philippines 😊 We can spend the wholeday chilling & catching up with friends. But for students, most of them use the café as a study place
Really! I often spent my whole day w friends at a cafe too. We often worked together there. It’s nice to hear that the Philippines has similar cafe culture! 😃
Same as Japan, wifi is free here too.
In Oz Macca's is a substitute for your Café culture, and you'll get a better coffee there than at Starbucks, plus they're much easier to find than Starbucks.
Café culture in Oz is more like Europe i'm told.
If you decide to come to Oz, don't worry you'll be speaking Tagalog before you know it.
#9: that is definitely true about cafes. It’s the Italian and Greek cafe culture that took root.
Brisbane is rather different to other Australian cities.
what a lovely girl , and no dislikes
I'd say it's a lot easier to "survive" in Australia than Vietnam....
You’re so adorable 💕
I can't get over how adorable her accent is lol
Rent in Brisbane is ALOT higher than in Vietnam.
It's not really viable to have people treating your business premises like a lounge room.
ROTFL Starbucks virtually closed up the majority of their outlets in Australia because there is so much better coffee available at the huge number of local cafes even in the smallest of towns. The coffee culture here is the best in the world. This is because of the high number of migrants coming here from Italy and Greece after the last world war and also the migrants from Brazil and Columbia where the best beans are grown.
Thanks my Friend, these small talks and positivity are merely political correctness 😅 The “lingo” is also a tribal code to know where are you from 😉 Cheers. Dr Walid Aly, from Melbourne
Buses in Australia lean down to let you on.
Woo hoo, Brisbane for the win 🏆
The toilet paper thing, are you sure??! I have always flushed tp in Vietnam, don’t remember doing it any differently! I haven’t really lived there for 15 years but it is my home country and I went back to visit quite often (before Covid). Can Vietnamese residents confirm this please?!
That would be revolutionary!!! I grew up being taught not flushing tp and always had troubles doing so 🤣 I also need some more confirmations from Viet!
Its all not flushing toiletpaper throught Burma laos thai kambucha and vietnam. And they think its gross we dont use water. They say if you have crap on your arm will you wash it or use paper?
What do you do with the toilet paper if you don't flush it?
yu dont go to a coffee shop to work . you go for coffee n a chat lol .
I love Vietnam.
It's always interesting to hear Vietnamese, Japanese, Thai, Chinese, etc with Australian or British accent. So unique. Oh the thing you put cold things into is called a cooler.
As an Aussie I agree about how lame it is that cafes close so early!!
Is specifically bad in Brisbane and GC compared to say Sydney or Melbourne.
You missed "fantastic" 😂
hahaha dangggg~ yes. I totally missed it!
@@confusedavocado5787 still a fantastic job tho 😋
Wait... what do you do with the toilet paper if you don’t flush it?
Trow it in a trash can I guess.
In the places I stayed in Vietnam that did not allow flushing of toilet paper, they had plastic bag lined wastepaper basket next to the toilet bowl for the disposal of the used toilet paper.
Sheesh! I'm from America and even I can't make out all that slang. The lemonade/sprite one would have confused me too. Buses barely coming to a stop and cafe culture...yeah, that's just like Bangkok. I've gotten really used to that
We're friendly because we live on a great big bloody island.
Im loving hearing about us from a different cultures perspective. Did you get culture shock?
I moved to Australia from India 4 days ago. It's not been long but still, there are a lot of things done differently here as compared to my home country. Trying to adjust :)
@@darkprincess1595 You will be fine. Just remember we have our problems. Some people are assholes and some are good. We have a large indian community so you wont feel alone 😊
@@darkprincess1595 One thing to remember is that we are more "country" than other western countries. Here in Perth we are very relaxed. Some of us are loud and seem low class but our culture was influenced by England. We didnt like the class system and we rebeled. So now class isnt strong. Rich and poor can have a beer. We dont see cleaners or drivers to be low class. Work is work and australians see all work as important. Ive heard Africans see this as strange. Maybe indians too. I have a problem with someone about 5 or 6 times a year. They want to give me crap. So if you have a problem with someone who is just being stupid, dont worry. We all do. Dont take it personally. Just ignore it or say something back. Up to you. Some boss are horrible. So please see us as individuals. Some good and some bad. But its not dangerous with crime like other places. Have you spoken to other indians that live here? They might tell you the same. Its a beautiful country and all australians love it. So please dont say its bad to australians. It will cause problems. We like to think we are perfect haha. Also you will see that people who are here for a long time will act like australians and joke like we do. Its joking and making fun of others in the australian way. So just watch what we do. And if someone is an kunt please understand we know some people are bad, but we see expression as important. Say hello when walking past someone. Just a quick nod of the head and gday. Its just what we do. Mostly. Good luck. I hope you do well here. Maybe i dont make sense right now but when you live here a while you will see what i mean.
Not flushing toilet paper? Ew!
I casnnot wrap my head around bides either.
Being a vietnamese decent, you definitely landed in the wrong part of the country. Travel an extra 1500kms South to Melbourne. The only thing same there in Queensland is the weather.
And you can flush toilet paper down the toilet in vietnam. It depends on the house, our new house this is not a problem. Being vietnamese are mostly poor, engineering or lack there of with some of the buildings is an issue.
your weird . lol i like you .
Singapore a western country? Hahaha
Singaporeans are pretty westernised to me, still they also have a lot of tranditional Asian values. That's my personal impression 🤔
Lee was an Anglophile and consciously modeled (some) Western ways.
your in for a shock if you visit victoria where the greatest footy is very late nights 12.00 + not like queensland most in bed by 9.00
Sorry totally disagree. Never been to Queensland, but as an Australia living in Sydney and Melbourne, I have found this culture and people to be obsessed with masculinity (including the women) and consumerism. They like to come across as relaxed on the surface but many get frustrated over the tiniest thing, driving, queues or just someone saying an opinion they disagree with. Most of these people cannot mind their own business and feel it is their right to push their opinions on others. But I am glad you are enjoying your time here :)
Kinda blown away with that Tim. Bad day perhaps mate?
It’s a Sydney thing. I’m from Brisbane but live in Sydney and it’s a different attitude down here, the attitude is more pushy and ’me first’. It also has the largest foreign born population in Australia (more than 40%) and the lowest % of people with both parents born in Australia- so there are more international outlooks.
A lot of Sydney people are considered to be jerks when they behave in their usual manner in Queensland, especially when they’re on holidays or just moved up there. After a while most of them lose attitude and chill out with the locals.
well, Australia is not a western country and Singapor neither.
please explain...in what way is Australia not a western country...???
Cabramatta 👍😁
There’s no Cabramatta / Springvale type suburb in Brisbane
@@hanzocloud There’s Inala (and Darra), both are smaller scale than their Sydney and Melbourne counterparts because the Vietnamese population is a lot smaller in Brisbane. Inala plaza is the closest thing to BKK plaza / John Street Cabramatta in Brisbane.