Hi, this is Greg from OnlineLanguageAcademy.com and I've got a really
special video for you today. I'm happy to be joined on the channel with another
YouTube English teacher, her name is Adriana from English with Adriana and we
are going to be talking about stereotypes. She is Australian so we're
going to be talking about some stereotypes that exist about Australia
and Australian people. This video is a two-part video so if you want to watch
her ask me about British stereotypes – stereotypes about England and British
people in general – then after this video please go to her channel to watch part 2.
You can find the link in the description and there will also be a link at the end
of the video. OK, so let's go down under and speak a little bit about "Oz" with
Adriana
- Hello Adriana - Hi Greg. - Hi, nice to have you on the channel
- Thank you for having me - Alright, so, where are you from, Adriana?
- Well, to begin, I'm from Australia but at the
moment I'm living abroad I'm living – sorry – I'm from Melbourne, Australia and
yeah I've been abroad for about eight years now. - OK, very nice, so it's
strange, you know, because you've come to Europe from Australia and it
seems so many of my... well not so many of my friends... but my best... one of my best
friends and certainly a lot of people I used to go to school with are now living
in Australia. It seems like so many people are going to live there it must
be some sort of paradise down under. - Well, I can say the same for the UK because
a lot of my friends have also gone to the UK to work abroad - OK, so we've just switched.
- Maybe it's a lot warmer for them or they just want to experiment and see what it's
like living down under. - Maybe, maybe. Well, they're certainly very happy
the ones I've spoken to. They love life down there, but there are some
stereotypes about Australians that I think we've naturally got to learn
since that has happened and, you know, watching Australian TV shows as well, we
certainly have a lot of stereotypes, some good, some bad, about Australia, so if it's
alright with you I'd like to run some past you and you can tell me if they're true or not.
- Bring it on! - Sound good? -Sounds good!
-OK, alright then, so the first one is that, at
some point if you do move to Australia, at some point either a spider, a shark, a
snake, a jellyfish or a crocodile will kill you! How true is that?
- Well, OK, I've never seen a crocodile in my life so, I'm from Melbourne and in Melbourne
Y'know, I've made jokes, like, I don't know, that in my back yard I have a kangaroos,
I have crocodiles or snakes, but it's not true. I've never had, like in some movies, even
my husband's told me, like, do you have snakes in your rooms and like spiders
coming out from the windows? In Melbourne, no. In bigger cities, no. If you're out
somewhere in the outback, I can't speak for people living out in the outback or in
the countryside, I'm assuming that most likely there are more deadly animals but
if you're living in a big city a suburban area then no. But you did say
about jellyfish and sharks. So, I know we were talking a little bit about this
before, but a lot of people don't realize when we go swimming in Australia, so we
have a lot of beaches in Melbourne, in Australia in general, and we always swim
between the yellow flags, there's always a lifeguard watching, and we can only
swim to a certain distance, so maybe I'm lying now but about 20 meters out. This
is something that in Europe, you know, when I'm swimming in Croatia in the
ocean I'm like... I always make a joke, like, I go in the water and I'm like jellyfish!
Seaweed! This, that.. My husband's like, "stop doing that!" And I'm, like, yeah, but I
have a phobia because of jellyfish and because of sharks because in Australia
it's true sometimes it depends a tide can bring in jellyfish and they can be
lethal so I am even to this day still scared of jellyfish, they can be deadly
and, but it's not that bad, like, I always go swimming in the beach in Australia
but yeah, this is my fear: sharks and jellyfish! Jellyfish more than sharks.
- Yeah it would worry me. I do like the idea of going to Australia and
those beautiful beaches we see on TV, but I'd feel the same, I'd feel, like, I wouldn't be
too keen on swimming in those shark-infested waters. And yeah it seems...
No... if you're swimming between the flags then it's fine and I'm not worried about
sharks, but jellyfish. Jellyfish can be very deadly. - OK, another thing about the –
talking about the beach – another stereotype we have about Australian
people (I guess this comes from the TV programs we watch there) but we
think that all Australian people are fit, like, physically, you know, fit, strong and
tanned. I mean we have an image of them just, you know, running down the beach,
Baywatch-style, and they're all gorgeous. Is it true? Is is like a physical paradise?
- Of course, Australians are the hottest people out! (I'm joking) -I'm speaking to the wrong person!
Well, I can't say that Australians are ugly, but when you're talking about Australians being fit and tanned
yeah, especially in Brisbane ,Queensland, because they do have a lot of sunshine,
so in Melbourne we have summer for about four months, but we
don't, it's not always hot in Melbourne, so we get tanned during the summer months
but during the winter we're white. Up in the northern states, northern parts of
Australia, like, people... I have this image of people living up north that they're fit
and tanned. I wouldn't say that everybody is, like, I don't know, Pamela Anderson or...
I know we're talking about Baywatch... yeah, but, from Home & Away or Neighbours, no,
not everybody looks like this. But up north I think that they do. So this is
maybe my stereotype of people living up in Queensland. - Alright, so not
everybody's like they're an on Home & Away and Neighbours? - No.
Home &Away and Neighbors were two programs – for the people watching – two soap operas that we
watch a lot of in England. When I was growing up, I would watch both Home &
Away and Neighbours every day, Monday to Friday, it was just part of our general life.
- Do you know they're still airing Home & Away and Neighbours? It's still on! - I know, yeah, I
regularly look online and just see, you know, see if it's still airing and see
what, you know, what the people when we were we were growing up, you know, what
those actors are doing now, just from curiosity, but some really, really famous
people started out on those programs, you know, Kylie Minogue probably the most
famous, she started on Neighbours, didn't she? - Yeah, Neighbours, she started out
on Neighbours, yeah. - But it's definitely, a lot of famous Australians have been
in one of those two programs at some point - Yes, classics! - Yeah, absolutely. OK, I've got another
stereotype for you, and you know, your country is home to many animals
that we don't have anywhere else in the world, and I think we kinda have the idea that there's a koala
bear in every tree in Australia. Is that true? - In every tree? I wish! - Every single tree in
Australia, there's a koala bear up there. - I wish, like, around where my parents are from, we're about 20Ks out
from the centre of Melbourne, there's koala.. what am I talking about...
kangaroos everywhere! Koalas? I wish they were on every tree. I've seen a
koala in a zoo and we were in the sanctuary, in a wildlife sanctuary when we were
in Melbourne six months ago and I barely saw a koala
so no, they're not in all trees, they're actually I think... I may be lying
here... but I'm pretty sure that they endanger due to dingoes or due to some
animals hunting them, there's not many of them – or eucalyptus trees because they
live in eucalyptus trees – because of deforestation.
I'm really disappointed that I can't I haven't seen them as much as I would
like to have. - So you've only seen one in a zoo? - Yes, and in a wildlife sanctuary so
open range zoos etc. But I've never seen... they sleep all the time and when I... when
me and my husband were searching for him, I was like, where is this koala? I'm, like,
you're in Australia for the first time and I just want to see a koala! - Wow, that's disappointing. That is bitterly
disappointing. But you mentioned kangaroos were, like, everywhere
20 kilometres outside your city and that's another stereotype we have.
In fact I was just looking online actually at different people's stereotypes about
Australians and Australia before we did this recording and
I read somewhere that, yeah, some people believe that Australians ride kangaroos
to work. So they don't drive to work, they just get on their kangaroo and they,
they hop to work. - Yeah, why would we drive cars when there's so many kangaroos? Like,
really! Like, you know, in Australia we're very eco friendly country so we make use... I'm joking. OK, jokes aside. No no.
- They are easy to see though? I mean, if I go to Australia I'm pretty much guaranteed to see a kangaroo, right?
- Yes, so interesting, we were in Australia last year in 2017, August, and my husband and
my mother decide to go feed the Kangaroos... I'm scared of
kangaroos because if you see kangaroos they really, like, big, about 2 meters
high and they, like, they they stand on their tail and they can kick and they
fight, we've actually seen them, but they actually pests in Australia and they've
had to they were actually at one point – a friend was telling me – that there were
more kangaroos than people in Australia so they had to do something about them
because they're not good for the land so I don't know if you know that in
Australia our dish is actually kangaroo, so you can buy kangaroo meat.
- I heard about it when my friend went to live there and... kangaroo burgers... is that a thing?
- I think this... I've been aboard for eight years and for me, I don't know,
it's our national emblem, eating it doesn't sound right to me
but I think they exist but I can't tell you much about that, I'm sorry.
- But have you eaten kangaroo meat, like, is that normal? Is that like us eating beef,
for example? I mean, do you eat it that much? - No, this... 10 years ago this started
coming out, it was, like, it's served in a curry and I mean, I've only eaten it once
and I don't want to eat it again, again. I think people do eat it, it's
something new that's being introduced you can eat it and probably if there's
any Australia's watching maybe they eat it all the time but
as far as I know, I don't know anybody that's eating it. I've never seen,
like, McDonald's a kangaroo burger. No.
- Maybe there's a gap in the market for that! - And I like the animals but it doesn't sound right to
be eating the national emblem, does it?
OK, alright then, so talking about food, another stereotype we have of
Australia is that you love having barbecues and drinking a lot of beer!
- Yes! Barbies, so in Australia, "Barbies" is very common,
most people have... ah, there's this song, so I'm going to sing for you: # Give me a home
among they gum trees, the mighty gum trees, the sheep are due a kangaroo, a clothesline at
the back... and anyway the song goes on, but basically the Great Australian dream is
to have, like, a house you have a veranda with a barbecue and just a lot of land
and like BBQ, snacks on the Barbie and yes, it's very, it's very, very common and it's
nice, this is one thing that I love about Australia. Beer? I'm not a beer drinker, I've
never liked beer, it stinks to me, personally Foster's, Bibi, but a lot of people
drink beer, it's not something that I like but it doesn't mean... in pubs and
during barbecues it's very, very common for people to drink beer, yes.
- Is it difficult for you to say "barbecue" do you, like, always say "Barbie"?
instead of barbeque? - It depends who I'm speaking to.
So, if I'm, I know now we're talking so.. I actually sang a little bit and I got
into the spirit 'cause I was in my own little world it
came out naturally, but if I'm talking to Australians and I would say Barbie but
if I'm talking to foreigners then barbecue so it depends who I'm speaking to.
- OK, alright, good. Let's have a look, then, what other stereotypes do
we have? Yes, well, talking about this one, Barbie / Barbecue... you know, you're kind of famous
I think for shortening almost every word... is that true? - Who has time
to say, like, the full word? In Australia we just simply make it... maybe it's not time
but maybe it's just.... a lot of people say that Australians are easygoing and maybe
they just don't want to be using this full word, like, McDonald's: Macca's. Arvo:
Afternoon. Ambulance: Ambo. Service Station... like, a servo... for me I would never
say "service station", I always say, "I'm gonna stop at the servo". Or
bottle shop: can you stop at the Bottle-o and get me, I dunno, get me a six-pack?
These things, I would never say bottle shop. You have Bottle-O. - Bottle-O! That's brilliant
I like that! Servo as well for a service station, I love it! I did a
video about words that... English, like, British words that we do like that.
Arvo, we often use Arvo, I don't know if it's...
if it's Australian and we've kind of stolen it from the Australians but sandwich we say
sarnie. - Ah, Sanger. Sanger in Australia. - Alright! Sanger! Nice! Yeah, I think we've
got a lot of them in in British English but I think you are definitely the kings
of shortening words....Deffo! - Yeah, I don't think, I never use that one
but I would understand it. - You've got to introduce "Deffo!" OK, I'm gonna finish up with... its
not really a stereotype but I think it's a misunderstanding or misconception
of Australia that I reckon that maybe 60 70 percent of people watching would say
that the capital of Australia is Sydney! And actually... what is it? - It's Canberra! Why does everybody think that it's Sydney??
- It's crazy. Canberra. I remember I used to do a
pub quiz on English... it was an English immersion weekend that I used to
do, and that used to be one of the quiz questions that I used to ask everybody,
and I reckon one out of ten people would get that correct. - I think it's because of Sydney Opera House because
whenever you think, you see Australia, if you do a google search, type in Australia
I'm sure in the top 10 / 20 search you'll see the Sydney Opera House and for this
reason people associate Sydney Opera House... Australia...
Oh... capital city... but do you do you know why Canberra is the capital city of
Australia? - I don't know anything about Canberra apart from the fact that it's the
capital city of Australia. I think that's another reason people think it's Sydney. They know Sydney, they can
visualize Sydney, but Canberra is just like a word.
Well because Sydney and Melbourne are the most populated and economically they're..
...and a lot of people are living there... when the first
fleet came to Sydney and they settled also in Melbourne and then these
two cities started developing but they were developing too fast and then there
was a rivalry in between Sydney and Melbourne so, should Sydney be the
capital? Should Melbourne be the capital? Canberra is actually in the middle in
between Sydney and Melbourne and that's why Canberra is there. Well, actually
that's maybe one story but then, my husband's actually a geography teacher
and he was telling me, oh, maybe it's also to take pressure of the two bigger cities but
also to make a city in the center so that you could have... these could be the
business and life cities living... similar to in Brazil where you have, I think, they have
Brasilia, they have Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. So, a similar situation in
Australia, so a third city was used to be the capital city. - OK, interesting, very
interesting. OK, well now you know. Thanks for that little geography and
history lesson. - To break some myths. - Yeah, OK. Good, well there you go! Out
of interest what... you said you've been living in in Croatia now, right, for eight
years? So what is the one thing that you miss about Australia? - Food! Like, you
know, in Australia a lot of people... Australia has a lot of different
cultures there, but, you know, some things that.. OK, curry or Lebanese food,
Turkish food... you can find that in different countries but you can't find
Vegemite, Tim Tams – I can't find that anywhere. Vegemite, Tim Tams, gravy...
I miss gravy. Slurpees... I miss Slurpees. OK, Slurpees aren't traditional food in Austraila.
But some food and wine, sorry, excuse me, some food and wine I
do miss, and I think yes.. - And the sangers! -And the sangers! And the sausages on the Barbie and burning
sausages sizzles. Sausage sizzles, also. - - What's the second line you said? Tim Tam's?
- Have you ever heard of Time Tams? - No, what are they? - It's the best biscuit in the world!
So .... in Australia they sell Tim Tams and
basically it's a biscuit with a chocolate coated biscuit and there's a
two biscuit inside you have a layer of chocolate and around it's coated in
chocolate, but you have double coat Tim Tams.
If you ever see them in the store, buy it! And then buy another ten and send it to
me! They're so fantastic, but also Tim Tams should be eaten, like, you bite one side
and then you bite the other side and use it as a straw with your coffee and then
you eat it.. or tea, it's also great with tea... and then you get like a hit of
chocolate and coffee or tea, it's... this is one thing that I miss from Australia. - Fine
cuisine, that! - Yes, really! - Nice one. I'll look out for it.There's a few...
they're more like American-European shops have started to appear here and
they they sell a lot of English and American snacks over here that don't
generally exist so I will keep my eye out for TimTams. So, with a bit of luck,
I'll try one and let you know. If not, I'll just have to go to Australia.
Cool, well, excellent, it sounds good. Yeah, all those
stereotypes, I think you've cleared them up and it's
been... yeah... thanks for that, it's been good to have you on the channel, Adriana!
Thanks, Greg, for having me! - Brilliant, well thank you Adriana, I've really enjoyed
talking to you I hope our viewers have enjoyed it too. So remember, guys, to check out part 2
of this video, in which Adriana will be asking me about some stereotypes that
exist about English people.. and not all of them are good!!
So check out part 2 to that video by clicking the link there, and I will see
you very soon! Thanks for watching and bye for now!
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