All The Stereotypes Of Australia

[saddina]

Well after a few years of teaching geography....

Australia is split along a mountain range, most people live on the cities on the east coast, while huge streaches of the continent are a dry desert with sheep and cattle ranchers. A jill-a-roo is a cowgirl (I maybe slightly off not covered this in two years, and it's midnight), and that schooling can be done home-schooled for children spread out in the outback, by radio (i'll assume by computers now though). Given a choice i'd rather see the GB reef and surf than spend time in cities or outback, but i'm like that.

 

[becc]

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I like beaches, but since I've grown up going to bush walks I prefer going to rainforests and bush... the things you see always change and are amazing, except for the insect life, that can be bad at times.

 

[saddina]

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I like beaches, but since I've grown up going to bush walks I prefer going to rainforests and bush... the things you see always change and are amazing, except for the insect life, that can be bad at times.

I grew up on a beach, and then as an adult took a job transfer to a desert.

 

[michickenwrangler]

I'm a child of the 80's, so I remember it all: Snowy River movies and TV series, Crocodile Dundee, Men at Work's "Down Under" song, Yahoo Serious, stuffed koala bears

Seriously, Man From Snowy River and Return to Snowy River are some of my favorite movies (just wish Kirk Douglas woulda done the sequel ... or that Brian Dennehy had done the original)

 

[redhen]

I always think of sharks when i think of Australia

 

[mom'sfolly]

I guess I tend to think of Australians as rowdy, sunworshipping, beach bunnies. But I do know that it is a huge country, much of it dominated by desert. I think what I hear about most is the problems with introduced species that Australia constantly seems to be battling. I think one of the big stereotypes is the wild-west sort of image western Australia.

It is definitely on my list of places I would like to visit, but so is much of the rest of the world.

 

[sourland]

I think of people as open, big hearted and gregarious as their country. Neat animals too!

 

[HEChicken]

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Australia has every geographic climate - from rainforests to deserts. Being in the southern hemisphere, seasons are reversed from the northern hemisphere and also north-south are opposite of the United States in that the North of Australia is hot and the south is cooler. Dec/Jan/Feb is summer, Jun/Jul/Aug is winter. In the far north (Northern Territory, North Qld), the climate is tropical. Instead of summer/winter/autumn/spring, there is the wet season and the dry season. Temperatures there do not range a great deal. However in the south of the country/continent, you definitely get all four seasons and it can be quite cool in the winter. There is even skiing in several mountain ranges.

So no, not all of Australia is "hot" and "desert", although there are certainly large parts of it (they love to glorify the "outback" in movies) that are.

 

[Kesta]

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I know this is off topic...but you're from Forks..
Is it always raining all the time?
And do you have a family of vampires currently residing there?

haha i thought the same thing! XD

 

[silkiechick05]

When I think of Australia, I think of:

1. Hot guys

2. Hot guys with hot accents

3. Hugh Jackman (hot guy with hot accent from Australia)