Is Australia closer to British or American culture?

>>79113365
Almost 50-50 of both
Very easy to find an Australian that hates everything about America and it's influence.

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>>79113365
>american culture

>>79113365
australia is more like the UK
as canada is more like the USA

>>79113755
Hey, there isn't a huge chunk of America that doesn't speak Eng....actually, never mind.

>>79113365
Australian hate American?
I didn't know that.

Australian can recognize American at first sight?

>>79113755
>as canada is more like the USA
its more like china and india you dim-witted cunt leaf

What the fuck even is Australian culture?

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>>79114087

>>79113365
They're desert brits except they don't drink tea

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>>79114087

>>79113365
It's closer to Chinese nowadays

australia vs canada punjabi songs

>>79114481
>le mebourne is not australia
>le unaustralian city poofs
>cities are shit

>>79114481
Chinese culture is closer to American culture than Australia culture is closer to Chinese culture. They're both ruthless capitalist rat races with limited regard for the individual. Australian society is very, very different from mainland China.

>>79114551
I hear the only real Australians live north of Brisbane you poof

>>79114163
1. no, we aren't.
2. we drink tea.

>>79114636
>They're both ruthless capitalist rat races with limited regard for the individual.
American culture prizes the individual and small family units above all else, that's arguably our biggest problem as well as one of our greatest strengths.

>>79114663
So many Aussies here larp and call themselves brits even though they don't even know any living relatives in the UK.

>>79114713
I think different places with in a country have different socio-economics and different cultures.

>>79113365
about the same unfortunately
rural aussies definitely have a lot in common with rural yanks

>>79114659
Cairns has a higher Asian population density than Melbourne, which is pretty much the only decent cunt between briz vegas and the far north.

>>79114713
>American culture prizes the individual and small family units above all else
No it doesn't, or else you'd have services like universal healthcare.

>>79114738
>So many Aussies here larp and call themselves brits
Not seeing it.

>>79114738
My family moved here in the 1800s but we still stay in contact with our relatives in England
AMA

>>79114144
>>79114408
Looks pretty American to me.

>>79113365
Aistralians want to nuke America me too.

>>79114785
Ever been to /brit/ general?

>>79114849
>/brit/
>so many
No, mate. That cancerous little group of normalfags don't represent /int/ in the slightest. They aren't larping, they're merely throwing around phrases, trying to fit in.

>>79114769
This is really true but they will never admit it because they think they are the "true aussies".

The whole stereotype of aussies all living in the dessert and drinking a lot is a pop culture creation that people like paul hogan created.

>>79113365
British.

>>79114890
wonder if Australian would've developed a real culture if crocodile dundee was never made

>>79113947
yes, they are scum
>>79114087
not your city fucking faggotry

>>79114950
we had a real culture, that croc dundee shit is an exploitative fuckheads sales pitch - that is the american influence
they need to make a shekel out of everything

>>79114951
AC/DC is from Melbourne.
Midnight oil is from Sydney.

>>79114988
acca had an irish man and PG is a hypocrite

>>79114971
Paul Hogan is from Sydney.

There used to be an image of him as crocodile dundee that the country people shared to say what a true aussie is.

I started to point out that he is a performer from Sydney playing dress up and the picture stopped being posted.

>>79114163
Drinking tea right now mate

>>79114822

>.com.au on one door
>non-North American phone numbers

>>79115008
Still considered an Aussie band and still loved in rural Australia.

>>79114144
>>79114408
Ah then closer to Britain it is.

>>79113365
traditionally more British but i feel its becoming more and more like America

>>79115041
>still loved in rural Australia
listen to stan coster, he's pretty much the only fella that sings about aus culture honestly

>>79113365
British easily

we're not that American at all

>>79114785
>No it doesn't, or else you'd have services like universal healthcare.
Try to think for a second. Why would a culture that prizes the individual give two shits about universal healthcare for all?

>>79115068
I will give him a listen.

>>79114988
AC/DC were Freo boys m8

>>79114738
literally no one does this, calling yourself English is a point of shame here
I have mates that will get extremely angry if you point out they were born in England

>>79115096
I think that's just bon scott and freemantle is right near melbourne anyway.

>>79115109
>I have mates that will get extremely angry if you point out they were born in England
Tell them they're faggots.

>>79114481
"no"
>>79114659
"no"
>>79114663
"no"
>>79114738
"no"
>>79114769
KEK no
>>79114890
literally fuck off you retarded fuck

>>79115109
>literally no one does this, calling yourself English is a point of shame here

I know but faggots on /int/ do it and it pisses me off.

>>79115124
they were all based in WA

Highway to Hell is literally about Canning Highway

>freemantle is right near melbourne anyway.
literally on the other side of the country you retarded fuck

>>79115144
You can't even write a sentence that makes any point so you resort to name calling.

>>79115085
for some insight: slim dusty sings about the experiences of other - stan sings about his own, it's worth looking at his wikipedia or something to see the life he lived
>>79115124
i hope this is bait

>>79115166
I was wrong, they are from sydney.

>>79115171
mate we've all seen your fucking stupid argument about how rural Australia "rips off" the south of America because they both wear hats

fuck off you mong

AC/DC is a British band. Who gives a shit about any other members than Brian Johnson and the Young Brothers (all born in the UK).

Melbourne literally named a street AC/DC lane and you fuck heads try claim it's an unaustralian city.

AC/DC is shit.

>>79115205
Sick of you straw maning that shit in every fucking thread.

There was much more to the argument than them wearing the same fashion but you try make it out like that was all I was saying.

>>79115255
well as the pom in>>79115232 stated, the members of the band were about as aussie as melbourne

>>79115284
oh right yeah sorry I forgot some of them also drive trucks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzzCIgfowFk
australia needs to make more movies

>>79115268
Leave Australia.

Is aussie accent best accent? I like how it souns desu

>>79115309
kick ass flik, a lot was filmed near broken hill
>>79115312
he's not wrong, the only cunts who like it are moptops, middle aged mums and derro methheads

>>79115344
bloke was probably from America

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Fucking rural aussies put southern american flags on their utes at rodeos and think they are more aussie than everyone.

>>79115368
Sooo all the fucking utes at aussie rodeos with southern flags are probably owned by Americans?

Lol, that would actually make rural towns even less Aussie.

I have literally NEVER seen a confederate flag in my life

t. live rurally

>>79115368
he has the stockade, might be just a knobhead
i'm more worried about that union jack in the background

A ute decorated like the general lee from dukes of hazzard.

Don't lie to yourself and try say rural Australia isn't influenced by American pop culture.

>>79115452
yeah looks like people are just showing off where they're from

>>79115421
one of the guys from my town had them as mud guards
but he's also the type of fuckwit that gets on the pingaz every week and has a southern cross tatt while pretending to be a city clubber guy

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>tfw you'll never be a feral cunt from the outback

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyjYveL14Lg

>>79115421
Leave your mums house and go to a bogan ute muster.

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kek you fat fuck

>>79115480
members of the outback club

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Something I always wondered are Australians constantly sweating and have their testicles sticking to their legs with the heat there? How do you boys do it?

>>79115536
rub myself down with baby powder each day

>>79115498
Hoping this isn't a picture of me.

>>79115545
this

>>79115536

cover yourself in koala piss

>>79115545
Seriously, do you sweat constantly? Summer gets warm here but nothing like what you guys have

>>79115564
when I'm out in 35+, yeah definitely

if I forget to wear deodorant then my shirt will be soaked after half an hour

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Rural aussies are truly not influenced by American pop culture at all.

>>79115586
utes are very australian mate

>>79115586
>number plate
they're our mexicans

>>79115584
That's so weird to me to think you've never lived out a year where you get four unique seasons

>>79115608
so you've only got one example of a car with a confederate flag?

Fuck me this cunt is thick

>>79115600
Not when you paint them like a red neck car from an American tv show about red necks.

>>79113365
they're basically yanks 2bh

>>79115564

It depends where you live, most of Australia is like California. Victoria is quite temperate, they even get snow up in the mountains. Western Australia is always hot.

>>79115644
erm no sweaty

>>79115625
I could find at least 50 photos of rural aussie utes with confederate flags on them.

If I did though you still wouldn't admit anything.

>>79115607
>not that guy
theres still weather and seasons
i grew up in a town where everynight gets to minus and my teens in the centre
the desert is freezing at night
even in the middle of the desert theres occasional rain, the heaviest rain ive ever seen was in coober pedy from a big monsoon that made it that far south, though i've never been north enough to experience tropic weather

>>79115625
>>79115634
Also isn't it obvious that one is a VY commodore and the other is a VP commodore you thick cunt?

>>79115663
yeah nah m8 sorry but it's pretty much ausmerica at this point

>>79115705
erm no sweaty

>>79115662
What do you know cunt, fuck off

>>79115667
a whole 50 photos?

yeah definitely going to admit that Australia is essentially American because there are a grand total of 50 photos with a flag being waved along side a Eureka flag which is very Australian

>>79115722
he's right

>>79115724
>"Australia is essentially American because"

Nobody is saying that you thick drop kick.

>>79115679
I forgot that deserts get cold at night. Still, you don't experience fall, spring and a real winter. Kinda envious of that part.

>>79115759
erm you are

>>79115771
yeah autumn here is basically a less hot summer
we don't even get leaves falling since everything is evergreen here

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwvazMc5EfE&list=RDCwvazMc5EfE

>>79115806
No, I am not you stupid cunt.

>>79115831
I used to sing this in kindergarten.

>>79115722

I probably have family who have lived there longer than your wog tribe washed up on the shores.

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>>79115771
a lot of the bush is like the pictures make it look but most of that is comprised of stations that are fucking huge where near to noone lives, cattle and sheep cant live there (sandy and simpson type places). in the semi agricultural areas which is pretty much all the eastern states (except south east QLD), the south of SA and WA there are pretty normal, definitive seasonal changes
the dark tan in pic is where the brutal bit is imo
(map isnt perfect)

>>79115831
was just listening to his version of the man from snowy river
https://youtu.be/rW7rgnNqgjE

>>79113597
underrated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=busw19zyBqQ

I hate when aussie rappers say "yo" but this is pretty cool.

I also hate when aussie country singers use american lingo too.

Australians are bad posters.

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>>79115868
Makes sense. Autumn is the GOAT season here. Brisk fresh air, hot chocolate, bon fires.

>>79115885
Nice

>>79115868
>south of SA and WA there are pretty normal, definitive seasonal changes
not in WA

>>79115386
Ayy lmao there is a union jack in the back

>>79115941
autumn's probably our best season too in WA

the weather sits around in the low 30s, the wind isn't as strong and the sky is clear and blue

>>79115771
I can see snow from my house in winter, though that is on the mountains and not in the valley where I live.

This is the most famous Australian man in existence, you tell me if he closer to British or American.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEsZkTTgydc

>>79116041
i mean down near esperance to dunsborough area

>>79116149
Yeah, I gathered but it still isn't really a proper season cycle

>>79116166
i've only been to that area once, i looked pretty green and good for stock/crops but yeah, i'm not a local

stop posting shit music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zUPTPlkqDg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OkgaCRII7I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xgFy5SWl1Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugvL86i9Y-4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB3PtpGJ354

>>79116210
Sounds like unaustralian music that people in melbourne would listen to.

>>79116210
yuck

>>79116244
>unaustralian
give the second one a listen m8

>>79116260
mate, stop it.

>>79116292
The Drones are literally as Australian as you get

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuPfCm8KMg0

>>79116299
you live in sydney or melbourne dont you

>>79116310
Bendigo

You know city people go to the pub after work too?

If you go to a pub in the inner city you will see lawyers and people who work in jobs like marketing having a beer with the boys.


I don't know why rural people act like all they do is drink soy lattes.

>>79116362
>muh rurals

>>79114408
That's fugging hot

>Be Australian
>Get fucked by big dick Englishmen in Rugby and Cricket

I'd pretend I was American too.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDjOAsxeokw
May be a brit tune about Australia but I hear it at the pub sometimes

>>79116397
>Be britain
>send criminals to a prison island
>prison island ends up as the better country

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>>79116397
literally going to be a 5-0 sweep this Ashes mate

Australia has the best fast bowling attack since the four horsemen and it's going to be on Australian wickets

>>79116430
rekt

>>79116430
reddit tier response

>>79116397
lmao no one actually follows union here mate and league is slowly dying
the cricket bit hurts though

Boxing seems to be getting more popular in Australia.

>>79116483
it's declining in popularity if anything

>>79116503
Really?

I was at a rural town recently and everyone there was talking about the mayweather vs mcgregor fight.

You could hear the cheering from he top two blocks away.

>>79116539
that's just bandwagoners

>>79116439
>He says as his team are about get Banglawashed
Will freely admit we're Homebabbies like everyone else though, so playing away won't do us any favours.

>>79116657
The Banglawash trend was started by England

>>79116449
No surprise it got a laugh out of the Yank then.

>>79116671
And now the tide turns upon Smoth.
The Bruce fears the Banglawarrior.

I've scrolled through this thread and OPs question has not been even remotely answered

>>79113947
you are seriously asking some random underage retard a quest about IRL? he never left his room for the last few years.

>>79113365
Simple Question ok?
Why Australian don't like American??
How about New Zealander??
Do you hate Brit also?

I don't get relationship between anglo bros.

>>79117046
The backbone of the culture and institutions of our culture are strongly influenced by the UK, however our pop culture is heavily american.

>>79117094
>Why Australian don't like American??
Very loud even before having a drink, can't take the banter after drinking.

>How about New Zealander??
We pretend to hate them but it's just rivalry.

>Do you hate Brit also?
Same as New Zealand.

>>79117094
they are memeing you. what's so difficult to understand? nobody cares IRL. it is just a bunch of edgy faggots on /int/. if anything, australians copy all things american. that's way some of the strayan niggers here are edgy.

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>>79117128
Are we just Americans to Aussies too?

>>79117102
Makes sense

>>79117151
What do you expect from dumb bogans?

>>79117151
To me you are.

>>79117151
Nah, you have very similar sounding accents but you're not as loud.

Canadians are like Americans who get pissed off at being called American or told it's basically the same thing.

>>79117134
>australians copy all things american
yeah I think so.

USA and Australia is not so different for me
same language
similar culture
huge land
multiculti

conflicting answers

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Here is the average australian megachurch.
These cucks copy the worst from us and then spread the cancer further. This church has been growing internationally in the UK and in Eastern Europe. And these fuckers dare to blame us.

>>79117158
excuse me I am not a bogan

I was crowned trans-prince of the Melbourne Moomba festival last year

>>79117189
>the average Australian megachurch
you're implying that these are as common over here as in dumbfuckistan

you're still by far the main problem, boyo

>>79117190
You just proved you were a bogan by making fun of melbourne.

>>79117224
I actually live in Melbourne and I love it

>>79117189
I think I have been to this one.

Is this Brisbane?

>>79117238
Noice.

>>79117189
Sydney

>>79117260
I'm more making fun of Australians' perceptions of Melbourne who have either never been there or are automatically triggered when they see a non-white face or someone wearing something weird.

>>79117189
>This church has been growing internationally
Proofs?

>>79117221
>According to the church, over 100,000 people attend services each week at the church or one of its 80 affiliated churches located worldwide.

>80 affiliated churches
let that sink in. who is spreading the cancer now?

>>79117294
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsong_Church

they have seven churches in UK. check them out. australian culture.

>>79117308
>100,000 people
>the population of Sydney is 8 million
>there are 1,300 of these churches in America
>there are only 80 of these Australian churches worldwide

>American education

>>79117293
Melbourne is def not like the memes here say.

I went there, spent the first night in air bnb close to the CBD.
Woke up in the morning and I noticed most people weren't hipsters and there was a guy in board shorts, singlet and thongs walking his staffy.

It's not like people here think it is.

>>79117351
>100,000 people
>the population of Sydney is 8 million
lmao what kind of retarded logic is that? you are saying since not all of these 8 million go to that church, that somehow makes it less of a megachurch? that's still a lot of people for just one church.

if it weren't for the hurricanes i'd live in australia

>>79117427
depends where you are close to the CBD

north: mostly hipsters
east: yuppies, druggies and vienamese
south: yuppies
west: hipsters, druggies and vietnamese

>>79117351
>population of Sydney is 8 million
>Australian education

>>79117466
sure it's a megachurch and we are part of the problem

but if you really think that a few megachurches in Australia even matches the 1,300 in America, you sure are a dumb burger

>>79117134
>australians copy all things american
What of those things exatcly?

Don't like Australians now that they equates us to Y*nks

Margot Robbie

>>79117530
of course there is more of them here. but the difference is less that you think because you are a tiny country compared to the us and yet you have quite a few of those fucking megachurches. that's funny considering how you guys try so hard to pretend you are so different and progressive.

>>79117102
disagree

I'm from England and I can honestly tell you that this country is far more English than American in almost every way

>>79117134
no we do dislike Americans as a general rule

>>79117094
>Why Australian don't like American??
If there's one thing every Australian despises, it's people who think they're better than everyone else, and that is the exact attitude every American has
>How about New Zealander??
We don't like New Zealanders because their entire country is built around a one-sided rivalry with Australia. All they ever do is complain about Australia and Australians
>Do you hate Brit also?
"Hate" isn't the right word. We tend to dislike the English in a playful kind of way, but if shit happened to them Australia would be right there to defend them.
You've got to remember that there is a lot of Irish in Australia and lots of people have ancestors that were shipped over here as convicts to work as effective slaves.

>>79117151
Canadians are a midpoint between Americans and Englishmen. Most people like Canadians as a general rule.

>>79117189
what the fuck is a megachurch?

>>79117504
umm what hurricanes are those?

>>79117655
I've never even heard of them and I'm religious

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>>79118737
Okay. Big fan.

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>>79118756
He must be vego

>>79118682
I agree, but pop culture is different.

TV shows that most people watch are American as well as all other media here. For example hip hop is 100x more massive than anything like grime.

not looking forward to all the yank refugees that are going to reinforce all our own bad habits
Hopefully Kim and the Yellowstone Supervolcano fricasee most of them before they become my problem

>>79113365
British and Irish.

As I've often said.

>US - Canada - Australia - NZ - UK.

That's the anglo sphere weighted culturally between it's major influences. What kind of makes Australia a bit weird though is that it's such a fucking culturally bland wasteland of a country that it's hard to pick what has more influence because Australia actually has very little in overt organic culture in itself that isn't imported.
Australian urban design and living is completely American, though Australian language and mannerisms are far more chavvy working class UK.

I honestly can't say Australia is super like the UK though as someone as well who has lived in the UK, again, the way society functions in Australia is far more influenced by post war US urban design. Low density, car centric, individualistic, detached housing, home is castle etc.

UK like most European countries is far more collective and community oriented. In the UK even in rural areas you see entire communities at the pubs you see people walking everywhere etc, in Australia, people don't walk, there isn't really a pub culture etc.

>>79113982
>dim-witted cunt leaf
that was a pretty aussie post

their music has never been like brits or other euros but close to americans
nowadays brit music has become like american stuff tho

>>79118729
>no we do dislike Americans as a general rule

Australians hate Americans (I mean the US accent in real life is the definition of annoying as fuck) but Australia is dominated by US popular and political culture.

>>79117221
They're being built everywhere these days.

There's honestly like 3 evangelical megachurches in a 10km radius of me and I'm not even in SA.

>>79113365
>americans are retards
>briturds are butthurt retards who shitpost constantly
>aussies are best at being retarded shitposters

really puts shrimp on the barbie

>>79117427
Inner suburb/innercity Melbourne is easily by far the best place to live in Australia if you're a young person.

It's legitimately the only place in Australia that actually tries to have a culture and develop a healthy urban community. Not to mention it has by far the best architecture in Australia since some of the victorian era buildings actually survived and weren't all demolished in the mid 20th century like everywhere else in Australia.

Australia was far more culturally oriented to the UK until post WW2 then slowly oriented itself more to the United States which was kicked into overdrive during the Howard Era since John Howard wished he was American and did everything he could to try make Australia the 51st state of the US.
There is cultural lineage with the UK, but Australia today is totally and completely dominated by the US on every level. As someone born in the early 80s, I actually remember the 90s and 00s quite well and Australia went through insane cultural realignment. Australia today is very different from Australia 1990. Watch interviews with Andrew Peacock today, the difference between the Liberals even in 1990 compared to post-Howard LNP is staggering. the LNP today is 100% the little brother of the Republican party, where in 1990 the LNP was basically where Labor left are today.

>>79114659
Aus/pol/ will claim this because QLD is a wildly hard-right wing state and until the 1990s was pretty much a dictatorial fascist police state.
Beyond the Eco Tourism though, QLD is a absolute fucking shithole with awful people. It's easily by far the worst east coast state.
There is a reason Brisbane is called "Brisvegas". Nothing also in Australia comes close to Surfers Paradise in absolute levels of tryhard.

>>79121934
>in Australia, people don't walk, there isn't really a pub culture etc.
Where on earth are you from? Rural Tasmania definitely has a pub culture usually tied to the local footy club or cricket club.

>>79123312
Pub culture in Australia is nothing like UK pub culture.

Yes people go to the local footy club, but UK pub culture is on a whole other level.

Australian "pub" culture has more in common with US local bar culture. In the UK you don't go to the pub to "watch the game" like you do here.

>>79114791
jeez i feel bad for you, here's (You)

>>79123352
>In the UK you don't go to the pub to "watch the game" like you do here
So you're saying that people just sit at home and watch the football over there?

>>79123132
What specific things happened in Australia during and since the Howard era that made Australia more American?

>>79122855
What even are you?

>>79123226
>QLD is a wildly hard-right wing state and until the 1990s was pretty much a dictatorial fascist police state
proofs?

>>79123226
t. V*ctorian.

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>>79117221
It's shrinking in the US/

>>79124289
Yeah, I've been pretty much proved wrong in this thread

Our education system is really failing us

>>79124289
It's still growing in the US, just slower than population growth

>>79124220
Look up the Joh Bjelke-Petersen era. It's filled with absolute horrific police brutality, political corruption, authoritarianism, political suppression, rigged elections.

The entire state was just run as a violent mafia racket for Joh with the police used as his personal thugs.

>>79124421
I've heard bad things about Joh in the past, but nothing this bad.

I get the feeling that there's a lot of hyperbole said about his administration, although it probably was still pretty bad.

I'm not a Queenslander trying to defend his state either.

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>>79124192
Australia massively culturally realigned to the US under Howard, In Howards own words "The US is the greatest country that has ever been in the world".
Australia was far more aligned to UK, before Howard and Australian political tradition was far closer to the UK. Howard changed all that, the Liberal party was changed from a liberal party into a reactionary hard-right conservative party (seriously go watch interviews with Peacock or Fraser, the Liberals were completely different before Howard).
Along with US Republican reactionary Conservatism in Parliament, he imported it enmass on a society level as well. You had the Howard history wars, you had the importation of US style flag waving nationalism, troop worship etc Reagan style Neoliberalism was also imported.

Before Howard, Australia day wasn't even really a thing. Like it was a holiday, but nobody took it seriously and flag waving was looked down upon, now Australia has 2 Australia days, Australia day is now modelled after July 4th in the US, and ANZAC day was turned from a anti-war "Fuck the aristocrats who screwed us over" day into "WOOO WAR SUPPORT DA TROOPS" day with people flag waving and wearing capes at Anzac parade cheering troop marches.

Relaxed media laws as well saw massive drop in Australian produced content and the widespread importation of US cultural products to dominate TV. The Australian film and television production industries basically died under Howard due to being swamped by US content.

Australia is filled with a long history of retarded cultural decisions (Australia used to have what was regarded as the worlds best victorian era architecture, which all got demolished so Australia can "Forge it's own path", the Royal Exhibition Building being one of the last surviving buildings that was only saved from being demolished by edict by the Queen) but Howard was just a wrecking ball.

>>79124421
I'm this guy: >>79124525

I've just done some light reading on what you've just said and there's a good chance that you're completely correct.

I wouldn't blame most Queenslanders for this however as there was a system set up where he could form government with little votes.

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>>79124688
Also just to add, here's some real fucking Australian violence

>anti-heritage attitudes which led to the demolition of many world class pre-war buildings in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney, destroying some of the world's best examples of Victorian architecture.[16] Modernism was promoted to many Australians as casting off imperial Europe to rebuild a new independent identity, and the existing pre-war architecture, which was a feature of Australian cities, was denigrated.[17] This resulted in many calls to demolish the Royal Exhibition Building, labelled the derogatory term "white elephant". It was not until Queen >Elizabeth II granted the building Royal status that Australians began to recognise its value. The building became the first in Australia to be given World Heritage status.

>>79113597
>Argentina
>culture
Oh shit nigger, what are you doing?

>>79124688
>The US is the greatest country that has ever been in the world
Gonna need a source on that.

As for a 'reactionary hard-right conservative' liberal party, I don't really see that being a trend specific to Australia. You're correct that Australia went to wars on the behest of the US (although the UK and much of the western world was there as well). Flag waving and the importance of ANZAC day doesn't surprise me and in my opinion is not a US-specific phenomenon. Even before there was much US influence in Australia we saw this effect with WWI and II. Generally people are not supportive of war before we wage it, and then they do in fear of being seen as unpatriotic. Surely there are exceptions of people who a staunchly anti-war, but again, they are the exception. It's no surprise then that people are supportive of troops that have been involved in reasonably popular (or at least viewed with ambivalence) wars. Also after many years the stigma of being a Vietnam war veteran has worn off, and I don't think that has anything specifically to do with Howard.

Most of the west became more economically liberal at the same time as Australia, but this actually started with the previous Labor government. The trend of economic liberalism actually started in the UK with Thatcher before the US came along, so you could say that Australia was gravitating back towards the UK in that manner.

Also I thought that most broadcasting laws that required Australian content were done away with in the 70s and 80s.

Lastly, demolition of Victorian buildings has more to do with moving away from our British heritage than moving in an American direction.

we have distasteful motoring and sports (V8 supercars like NASCAR and Rugby like grid-iron) so i guess we have that in common with USA.

The difference is that only bogans are into those things here. It seems like most socio-economic classes in America are into football and NASCAR though.

>>79125811
Rugby is from the UK so it's hardly American

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>>79123352
>In the UK you don't go to the pub to "watch the game" like you do here.

>>79126004
it might be from there but they don't really give a shit about it

>>79126183
neither

>>79126196
hardly

>>79124905
Pretty sad picture to look at.

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>>79113365
melbourne and sydney try super hard to be american, the rest is pretty much anglo-celtic culture. Also lots of greek, italian, lebanese, dutch, irish, chinese, filipino thrown about here and there.

It pisses me off how so many of the younger generation try to copy americans in everything. They talk about Trump 24/7 like he's the australian leader or something, and they demand gay marriage just because the yanks did it.

>>79126281
Explain this picture. Whores have they own party?

Why do Aussies hate Americans so much?

>>79126281
>>79126374
Tell me. I tried to Google sex party, but did not got the results i was expecting (not disappointed).

>>79126374
yes. we have meme parties for everything, including "animal welfare party" "motoring enthusiasts party" "shooting and fishing party" "smokers rights party". its hilarious.

>>79126281
>they demand gay marriage just because the yanks did it
hardly, most young people supported gay marriage before it was legal in the US

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Sex_Party

>>79126494
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_White

>>79126244
just because I know it comes from the UK doesn't mean I actually watch it or even know the name of one rugby player

>>79126514
We have a communist party, is also Hilarius...
>>79126568
>135 porn movies.
Jesus, i am 26 years old and i don't think i had this much of sex in my entire life.

>>79126602
we aren't talking about you though but australia at large

>>79126732
sorry, I completely misread your post

regardless, just because something came from a place that doesn't care about said thing anymore, that doesn't mean that it doesn't come from that place's cultural legacy

>>79117504
literally only in Queensland, and its a shithole anyhow

>unironically living in a big cities
>not living in a comfy small city of 300,000

Australia is literally America's greatest ally

>>79126281
>younger generation
Wrong, even boomers did it. The high circumcision rates are mostly from them they couldn't get enough of the BSAs

>>79126382
Honestly Young American tourists are obnoxious as fuck and the US accent is the most irritating thing to hear in real life.

The way you pronounce your a's and 'rs.

For like the rest of europe, australia, uk we would pronounce "later" like "lay-dta" but you Americans pronounce it "LAE-TU-UURRR"

Butter, for Europeans, Australians, UK, it's "Buddah" or "buh-ah" but for US, it's "But-TUUUR"

American accents are so fucking unnatural and weird sounding in real life. It doesn't help Americans speak about 50dB louder than everyone else and in a way higher octave.

Seriously when everyone hears US accents in a public place here, they cringe.