Heureux que certain(e)s arrivent a voir leur passage en Oz, de courte ou de longue duree, avec une bonne dose d'ironie mais aussi.... une certaine objectivite
Voila la suite de mon message precedent repris sur la page de HOBART:
HISTORY
Aborigenes have lived in Australia since the last Ice age, and did so in peace and stability until 1770,when Captain James Cook claimed the Continent for the British....
Rather than stealing the land, digging for gold and enslaving the population for sale overseas, the British instead stole the land, dug for gold, did their best to exterminate the native population and then dumped criminals from their home country in the space that created.
Australia less than-glamourous past as a bin for British societal dregs has led to countless jokes at its expense: Peter cook was famously turned away from the country at passport control when in response to the question"
Do you have a criminal record?" he asked if it was still compulsory
But while it has been fighting to erase the stigma of its penal-colony past ever since convicts first arrived in 1787, the evidence of that history is all around. and nowhere is this more the case than in Hobart.
Culture
....The heritage of the country's hard upbringing is a people for whom nothing is a problem. Unwelcoming terrain, killer crocs, big hairy spiders(zabriskie 1 point!), and a family- size hole in the ozone layer are just things that have to be dealt with, no worries.
They even give their natural disasters cute name like Tracey.
This also reflected in their attitude to all things cultural where their expectations are universally low, as is evident from their soap operas.....
Que les expats francophones susceptibles se rassurent, il y en a d'excellentes sur Paris, St-Trop, Marseille, Brussels, Luxembourg, Lucerne,...
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