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THAN VEGEMITE I
am sick of the stereotypical idiosyncrasies the world has on my country. We
speak with longated accents and add "g'day" and "mate", in
every second word. We eat Vegemite everyday and we drive around in pick up
trucks with our shirts untucked, shorts soiled and aukbra hats, with cork tops
dangling from the brim. I
hate even more how we're portrayed in American movies and shows. The Simpsons,
Just Shoot Me, Crocodile Dundee all do this. The
thing that annoys me most is not the bad, American imitated accents with
"mate" in the middle of every sentence. It's the fact that the
Australian politicians resorted to violent tactics (kicking Bart in the butt
with an enormous novelty boot) to solve this problem. Australian
politicians do
NOT do this. We are not like that. And I feel sorry for the naive
people who believe we are like that. In
an old episode of Just Shoot Me, Jack hires an Australian journalist to do
interview him for his biography. Not only is the accent poorly executed (it
sounded halfway British crossed with elongated "y' and exaggerated 'a's),
but yet again he was an idiot with no morales. Sarah
O' Hare, gorgeous Australian model married to Newscorp/Foxtel heir, Lachlan
Murdoch (Son of business mogul, Rupert Murdoch) was cast as one of the models in
movie Head Over Heels with Freddie Prinze Jr. She won the part of (again)
brainless Australian supermodel, however when she was asked to shoot her scenes,
the director actually asked for a more obvious Australian accent. Crocodile
Dundee probably is the most famous American known Australian oriented movie. It
broke box office records across America with it's typical "Aussie
bloke" Paul Hogan and smart, sassy and gorgeous American Linda Kowalski. Hogan
as the crocodile hunter was untrained and uneducated in etiquette, brandishing
an honest, down-to earth personality making him a loveable dumb ass. In
real life, Hogan lives in LA and has a son, Chance with now wife Linda
Kowazalski. Although is probably the only one with the procured and pronounced
Australian accent in the industry, he is no less any of his co-stars. C'mon, he
is the main subject of the story after all.
We
are one, but we are many and from all the lands of earth we come Australia
is more than the Opera House, Harbour Bridge, Uluru (Ayres Rock) and The Great
Barrier Reef. We are the land, we are the air we are the sea. Bondi Beach are
our golden shores and Melbourne is our shopping mecca. We play football without
a helmet.
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