• imsodin@infosec.pub
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    1 year ago

    Not Australian or American, but hey it's the internet so why not voice second hand knowledge: I heard Aussies pride themselves on being (relatively) egaliatarian, despising individuals elevating themselves above others. Seems to me about as antithetical to US mentalitity as it goes :)

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      AU and USA share in a foundation belief that they are "classless societies." I think this is probably true of many ex-British colonies since class is such a dominant and suffocating aspect of British culture.

      Australia, like the USA has severe inequality, and the rich there like to flaunt their wealth. A disproportionate number of the crypto grifters ended up being Aussie. And while Australia does have a better social welfare state than the US it is both 1) under attack and 2) was put together almost entirely by one socialist prime minister in 1975 who was taken out after only a few months by a coup.

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        1 year ago

        I think this is probably true of many ex-British colonies since class is such a dominant and suffocating aspect of British culture.

        Laughs in India

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        A lot of the Aussies you'll chat to on the internet don't realise how recent there was heavy segregation even among people broadly considered white now.

        If you look at the last names of powerful people even now you'll find that while they're general all white dudes Irish last names are underrepresented, despite being around as long as English ones. A lot of migrants from Greece/Italy/Poland etc were heavily sidelined too.

        Lets not even get into treatment of native peoples and non white migrants cause we'll fucking be here all day.

        This country is definitely heavily divided by class, last oecd report I read found 4 generation median time for bottom quartile income to next quartile up. That's bonkers.