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Originally posted by LiveDose
Can you be more specific about this? The US is made up of people from every country in the world. You can find any kind of culture here. And as you say Australia sounds the same.
Your comment is exactly the kind of comment that if written by an American on this board, he/she would get flamed for being arrogant. Everything is perception...
Also you said you live here up to 6 months a year and no one is forcing you to become American...
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Let me explain my comments...
I've been to both countries, lived in both countries and intend on living in both countries forever. I do it because of personal reasons and because it's the lifestyle I enjoy.
In America, it seems to me that when any ethnic group settles in a city or town, they automatically move to wherever their own people are settled. I see a lot less of this in Australia. At the moment, I live next to a Vietnamese family to my right, and a Croatian family to my left, across the road is a Lebanese family.
The point is, that this is how it is for almost everyone in every capital city in Australia. I didn't see this in America. Because it seems to me that America; ethnically speaking, is made up of immigrants who are kind of made to become an American, holding on to their own heritage is almost taboo.
As for being forced, no I didn't say people force you to do it, it happens that way. It just happens that in order for someone to be successful in the US, you need to be an American and talk English, and drive an American car and eat Mc Donalds, listen to American music etc. If you don't, people wonder why.
The American government has a lovely way of putting people into their ethnic groups until they become successful, and generalizing within the media whenever one person from that said group, causes some kind of trouble.
I don't see this in Australia, unless the "Albanian Wing" of a detention centre is suddenly on fire. Then people and more specifically the media will aim at that one ethnic group. Otherwise, people don't give a fuck.
It still makes people cringe to sit next to a black man on a bus in the US, I've seen it in their eyes. I'm white, and of Slavic heritage so it affects me less than it does most visitors and immigrants to the US.
It's just what I've seen with my own eyes.