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WHO WE ARE: A column about Australia, by David Dale

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  • #60941
    Caroline
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    Coucou!
    Voici juste un article assez rigolo et surtout très intéressant sur les Aussies et la culture:-) Ze savais pas trop où l’ajouter sur les forums…
    Bises,
    Caro

    WHO WE ARE: A column about Australia, by David Dale
    (Sydney Morning Herald 04/02/07)
    http://blogs.smh.com.au/sit/archives/2007/02/whwearedraft_for_next_week.html

    Anybody who goes to an art gallery is a wanker, right? There are 3.6 million wankers in Australia. Only geeks go to libraries, so this country has 5.4 million geeks. Dance performances are for poofs and fag-hags, and now we know Australia has 1.6 million people like that.

    Outside of school projects, you wouldn’t go sniffing dust in a museum unless you were a complete dag. Ring up 3.6 million as the national dag total. And anybody who has time to go wafting round a botanic garden needs to get a life – advice you must now offer to 5.4 million of your compatriots.

    A survey released last week by the Bureau of Statistics under the catchy title Attendance at Selected Cultural Venues and Events challenges the conventional wisdom that Australia is a land of jocks and slobs. It turns out Australians are wankier, poofier, geekier and daggier than most of us imagined.

    When I wrote about similar research back in 2002 (using the same introductory paragraph as I used here) the librarians got excited and reprinted my report in their journals. They’ll be less inclined to celebrate this time. At the beginning of this decade, 38 per cent of Australians said they visited a library at least once a year. Now only 34 per cent say that.

    That’s not to say we’re replacing scholarly pursuits with vulgar amusements: attendance at sporting events dropped from 46 per cent in 1999 to 44 per cent last year, with the main losers being tennis, motor sports, and cricket. Art gallery attendances have risen from 21 per cent to 23, museums from 20 to 23 and dance from 9 to 10. And the librarians may be consoled to learn that their remaining fans are loyal bordering on obsessive — two thirds of whose who visit libraries do so more than six times a year, and a quarter of them go more than 20 times a year.

    The Bureau drew these conclusions from interviewing people aged over 15 in 14,200 households. That’s an enormous sample compared with the 3000 households from which television ratings are estimated. It enabled the bureau to dissect our leisure cholices thus:

    th_danielcraig.jpg HOW AUSTRALIA GOES OUT
    Percentage of people over 15 who visit at least once a year …
    1. The cinema: 65 per cent (mostly Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man’s Chest; The Chronicles of Narnia; Casino Royale; The Da Vinci Code; Ice Age 2). Peak attenders: women aged 15-24.
    2. Sporting events: 44 per cent (of which AFL 16 per cent, horse racing 12, rugby league 9, motor sports 9, cricket 5, soccer 4). Peak: men 18-24.
    3 Zoos and aquariums: 36 per cent. Families with young children.
    4 Libraries: 34 per cent. Women 35-44.
    5 Botanic gardens: 34 per cent. Women 55-64.
    6 Pop concerts: 25 per cent. Unmarried people 18-24.
    7 Museums: 23 per cent. Families with young children.
    8 Art galleries: 23 per cent. Women 45-64.
    9 Theatre: 17 per cent. Women 45-64.

    10 « Other performing arts » (such as revues, variety shows and circuses): 17 per cent. Women 25-44.
    10 Musicals and operas: 16 per cent. Women 45-64.
    11 Dance performances 10 per cent. Girls 15-17.
    12 Classical music concerts: 9 per cent. Women 55-64.

    Some 12 per cent say they don’t go out to any of the listed activities, even once a year, which means that only 1.7 million of us are couch potatoes. All in all, we may reach this conclusion: at least 15 million Australians are a diverse, active and charming bunch of sophisticates. Well, the female Australians, anyway.

    We welcome your comments.

    Published in The Sun-Herald 4/2/2007

    (To determine if you are suitable to be an Australian, go to the test.)

    David Dale is the author of Who We Are — A snapshot of Australia today (Allen and Unwin). For further discussion of Australian attitudes and behaviour, go to http://www.smh.com.au/tribalmind.

    #280949
    Kat
    Participant

    Well the wankers thank you 😆 😆
    On reconnaît bien là l’humour!!

    #280950
    KroKoala
    Membre

    C’est vrai qu il manque une section « revue de presse » ici… Mais bon le forum aborigène aime les topics variés 🙂

    Je vous conseille le livre « Who we are » de David Gale car l’article est juste une petite mise à jour du bouquin. On apprend plein de choses sur la culture australienne.

    ex : -best songs about us 1)Down Under Men at Work 1982
    The narrator, a backpacker,finds Australia is so fashionable in Europe that a man in Brussels gace him a Vegemite sandwich. He mocks the stereotype of a land where « women glow » and « men chunder »

    -sporting spectacles the ones we watch:
    1)AFL(australian football) 2)NRL (rugby) 3)Cricket

    and so on…

    A lire absolument pour en savoir plus sur les Australiens !

    #280951
    Caroline
    Participant

    Didi he really meet a man from Brussels, six-foot high and full of mussels???

    #280952
    Caroline
    Participant

    YOU would know;-)

    #280953
    Kate09
    Membre

    Merci Caroline, c’est tres amusant.
    Ca semble presque si drole que le livre « How to be Normal in Australia »
    et c’est difficile, ca! 😆 😆
    Kate

    #280954
    Xavier-Perth
    Membre

    Kate,

    A propos de ce livre « How to be normal in Australia », j’ai perdu le mien et plus moyen de le retrouver !!! Sais tu ou je peux le trouver… (or get photocopies (hint hint!)?

    Otherwise here are some other beauties!!!

    http://www.majormitchell.com.au/books.html

    CU
    X

    #280955
    Kat
    Participant

    C’est pas ce bouquin qui justement est repris sur le site?

    #280956
    KroKoala
    Membre

    Salut Xavier,

    J’ai acheté l’an passé le livre « how to survive Australia » dans une boutique souvenir de Perth et il y avait aussi « how to be normal in Australia » (celui ci je ne l ai pas pris car je l avais déjà lu chez Kate).
    C est une édition de 1999 Major Mitchell Press. Mais désolée je ne me rappelles plus le nom de la boutique. Du coup je ne sais pas vraiment si ça peut t aider…

    #280957
    Kate09
    Membre
    Xavier-Perth wrote:
    Kate,

    A propos de ce livre « How to be normal in Australia », j’ai perdu le mien et plus moyen de le retrouver !!! Sais tu ou je peux le trouver… (or get photocopies (hint hint!)?

    X

    I found my copy in an old bookshop a Qld…difficile a trouver…mais…
    Xavier, you’re in luck, car le livre entier est reproduit ici sur le site (no longer in book publication form) http://www.majormitchell.com.au/contents.html#benormal

    Kate

    #280958
    Xavier-Perth
    Membre

    Excellent Kate!
    Many thanks and have a great time in Kiwiland

    X

    #280959
    Caroline
    Participant

    G’day everyone:-)
    Good to write to you again Kate:-)
    Have a nice trip to Godzone:-)

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