Night Shift

It's also the most rabidly anti-female country I have ever lived in by quite a margin. But i've spent some time in some 3rd and '2nd' world countries too and i don't think i would like to live there. This is the land of my birth and I have a stoopid attachment to it.

UI am finding men in general are becoming more and more anti-female and very abusive, they seem to lack any self-control now and seem to see women as "their property", their is never going to be a time where men will treat women with respect until all religion is gone and their is a huge cultural shift.

hi @Former-Member, you are so lucky to have good experiances, unfortunately i have never experianced anything good in Australia 😞

i have always been different, in thought and in values to Australian's maybe one day i can change my values to better suit the Australian culture.

There are many, many good things about Australia but the Australian colonial culture is probably the ugliest culture I have ever experienced. We pride ourselves on the 'fair go' (or maybe we don't now - I haven't heard anyone talk about 'a fair go' in ages) but the reality of our culture is misogyny, racism, aggression, materialism, anti-intellectualism and downright nastiness. I'm not saying that once a person has adjusted to the culture it's not possible to have fun here (unless you're me - i fit in here particularly badly) but what is it that you like about the culture, @Former-Member?

Nationhood is an abstract mental construction I think. When we talk about things in that way, there is usually a lot of generalisation involved. I have lived overseas too (briefly) and travelled to Europe, USA, Canada, New Zealand (with short visits to Asian countries along the way). People are good and bad everywhere I think. Having said that, I've never fitted in to my own perception of the 'norm' of Australian society either. But I also know that 'norm' is substantially a construction of my own mind. Mostly I try to look past the 'surface' personality traits of people I react against and try to find something I can relate to underneath if possible. Hope this makes some sense!