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9781558686137

Culture Shock Australia

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    9781558686137

  • ISBN10:

    1558686134

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-09-01
  • Publisher: Ingram Pub Services
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Summary

Whether you travel for business, pleasure, or a combination of the two, the ever-popular "Culture Shock!" series belongs in your backpack or briefcase. Get the nuts-and-bolts information you need to survive and thrive wherever you go. "Culture Shock!" country guides are easy-to-read, accurate, and entertaining crash courses in local customs and etiquette. "Culture Shock!" practical guides offer the inside information you need whether you're a student, a parent, a globetrotter, or a working traveler. "Culture Shock!" at your Door guides equip you for daily life in some of the world's most cosmopolitan cities. And "Culture Shock!" Success Secrets guides offer relevant, practical information with the real-life insights and cultural know-how that can make the difference between business success and failure. Each "Culture Shock!" title is written by someone who's lived and worked in the country, and each book is packed with practical, accurate, and enjoyable information to help you find your way and feel at home.

Table of Contents

Preface 7(2)
The Typical Australian
9(13)
Images, stereotypes and misconceptions
9(6)
The honey-coloured facts
15(1)
Self-image
15(1)
The cultural cringe
16(1)
The colonial past
17(2)
Mateship
19(1)
Scout's honour
20(1)
The soft underbelly
21(1)
Speaking Strine
22(24)
An English-speaking country?
23(4)
Thinking little
27(1)
Conversation smoothers
27(2)
The art of abuse
29(3)
Mis-speak
32(2)
Spelling bee damned
34(1)
Joke for democracy
34(1)
Your verbal camouflage
35(1)
Glossary
36(5)
Some idiomatic phrases
41(2)
Some common aboriginal words
43(1)
Some common diminutives
43(1)
Selected acronyms
44(2)
A Sense of Nation
46(21)
How Aussies see themselves
50(1)
How Aussies see some of `the others'
51(15)
Nation
66(1)
Being a Migrant
67(22)
The shifting sands of immigration policy
68(3)
Familiarisation techniques
71(1)
The questions some migrants ask
72(1)
You can take it with you
73(2)
What use are migrants?
75(1)
A migrant nation
76(2)
Multiculturalism--handle with care
78(2)
Integration without tears
80(4)
Transportation
84(1)
More bummers
84(2)
Children change
86(1)
On the positive side
87(2)
Dreamtime Australia: The Aboriginals
89(18)
They came first
91(1)
Statistical phantoms
92(1)
Trauma of a nation
93(1)
For their own good
94(1)
Absorbing the difference
95(1)
Diet of death
96(1)
Rights restored
97(1)
The land-mother
98(2)
The art of being aboriginal
100(2)
A brand new day on its way
102(1)
Sporting laurels
103(1)
Black politics
104(1)
The Mabo/Wik mess
104(3)
The Leisure Ethic
107(17)
Work and play
107(1)
Slowing down
108(1)
Appearances can be deceptive
109(1)
Keep it friendly, mate
110(2)
Don't judge this book by its cover
112(1)
Sickies, overtime and wages
113(1)
The dignity of labour
114(1)
Service, civility and servility
114(2)
Everybody out!
116(1)
Handout heartbreak
117(1)
After hours
118(2)
Willow and leather
120(3)
All a bluff?
123(1)
Mateship and Machismo
124(13)
Men and men, and men and women
124(1)
Mateship
125(1)
Mateship uber alles
126(1)
Men's men
126(3)
Role-swapping
129(1)
Shelias
129(1)
Convict chattels
130(1)
Puritanism vs paganism
130(2)
Fair go for women
132(1)
Obstacles, real and imagined
133(1)
Hair talk
134(1)
Role models
135(2)
You're On Your Own, Mate
137(14)
Freedom and democracy
138(1)
Don't classify me
139(1)
Doing your own thing
140(1)
Benign neglect?
140(1)
No leaders please, we're Australian
141(2)
Teamwork is Australian
143(1)
Another way of getting things done
144(1)
Dissecting democracy
144(1)
Election fever
145(1)
Government, government and more government
146(1)
The fourth estate
147(1)
The small screen
148(1)
Mind my space
148(1)
Freedom of the personal kind
149(1)
Look the other way
150(1)
The Great Australian Dream
151(25)
Homes and gardens
152(1)
Land hunger
152(2)
The Australian style
154(5)
Handyman mania
159(1)
D.I.Y. is dinky-di
159(2)
The gardening syndrome
161(1)
Putting on a front
162(1)
The family dog
163(1)
Front-room formality
163(1)
Loo lore
164(1)
Other rooms
165(1)
The barbie
165(1)
Visiting
166(1)
Trouble-shooting checklist
166(9)
A few real estate jargon terms
175(1)
Tucker
176(24)
The Asian invasion
178(4)
Cutlery
182(1)
The Australian shopping basket
183(4)
Fruit
187(1)
Dining out
188(1)
Shouts and splits
189(1)
Traditional fare
190(1)
Old favourites
191(1)
And now for afters
192(1)
Christmas
192(1)
About tea
193(1)
Bush tucker
193(2)
Gourmet grubs
195(1)
Grog
196(2)
The grapevine
198(2)
Earning a Crust
200(20)
Just dig it up
202(1)
A cautionary tale
203(1)
The state of the economy
204(1)
Wheelers and dealers
205(2)
Boom-bust
207(1)
Casino culture
208(1)
Turning to the neighbours
208(2)
That MFP thing
210(1)
Turning things upside down
211(1)
`Life is not meant to be easy'
212(2)
Scientific excellence
214(1)
The GST revolution
215(3)
Your partner in business
218(2)
The Earth Mother
220(24)
Survival sense
240(4)
The Philistine Slander
244(18)
Still pictures
246(2)
Moving pictures
248(2)
Thespian things
250(1)
Cabaret and comedy
251(3)
Fancy footwork
254(1)
Music
255(2)
The literary tradition
257(5)
D.I.Y. Australia
262(15)
Basic fact-file on Australia
263(2)
Historical milestones
265(5)
Name dropping
270(7)
Cultural Quiz 277(4)
Do's and Don'ts Appendix 281(4)
Resource Guide 285(8)
Bibliography 293(5)
Acknowledgments 298(3)
About the Author 301(1)
Index 302

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