Cultural differences explained

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Cultural Differences Explained

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Aussies: Dislike being mistaken for Pommies (Brits) when abroad.

 

Canadians: Are rather indignant about being mistaken for

Americans when abroad.

 

Americans: Encourage being mistaken for Canadians when abroad.

 

Brits: Can't possibly be mistaken for anyone else when abroad.

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Aussies: Believe you should look out for your mates.

 

Brits: Believe that you should look out for those people who

belong to your club.

 

Americans: Believe that people should look out for & take care of

themselves.

 

Canadians: Believe that that's the government's job.

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Aussies: Are extremely patriotic to their beer.

 

Americans: Are flag-waving, anthem-singing, and obsessively

patriotic to the point of blindness.

 

Canadians: Can't agree on the words to their anthem, when they

can be bothered to sing them.

 

Brits: Do not sing at all but prefer a large brass band to

perform the anthem.

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Americans: Spend most of their lives glued to the idiot box.

 

Canadians: Don't, but only because they can't get more American

channels.

 

Brits: Pay a tax just so they can watch four channels.

 

Aussies: Export all their crappy programs, which no-one there

watches, to Britain, where everybody loves them.

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Americans: Will jabber on incessantly about football, baseball,

and basketball.

 

Brits: Will jabber on incessantly about cricket, soccer, and

rugby.

 

Canadians: Will jabber on incessantly about hockey, hockey,

hockey, hockey, and how they beat the Americans twice, playing

baseball.

 

Aussies: Will jabber on incessantly about how they beat the Poms

in every sport they play them in.

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Americans: Spell words differently, but still call it "English".

 

Brits: Pronounce their words differently, but still call it

"English".

 

Canadians: Spell like the Brits, pronounce like Americans.

 

Aussies: Add "G'day", "mate" and a heavy accent to everything

they say

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Brits: Shop at home and have goods imported because they live on

an island.

 

Aussies: Shop at home and have goods imported because they live

on an island.

 

Americans: Cross the southern border for cheap shopping, gas, &

liquor in a backwards country.

 

Canadians: Cross the southern border for cheap shopping, gas, &

liquor in a backwards country.

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Americans: Seem to think that poverty & failure are morally

suspect.

 

Canadians: Seem to believe that wealth and success are morally

suspect.

 

Brits: Seem to believe that wealth, poverty, success and failure

are inherited things.

 

Aussies: Seem to think that none of this matters after several

beers.

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