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Are the Aussie tourists offensive to Australians?

posted 17 years ago by joshuaism
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A reviewer on the film said it was offensive to him being from Australia, saying they were portrayed as stupid and overweight. I don't know how to feel about this because on one side, I know Australians aren't stereotyped as being fat morons, and on the other hand it's nice to see characters who aren't Americans portraying as overweight, "blind"(as in not seeing outside the box on things) and stupid when that's the general consensus of the world outside the U.S.

All I can say is, just take the punch. We as U.S. citizens have to hear those things all the time and a lot of time on the net when someone comes on here(not this board but other IMDB boards) and is like 'typical American' gawd I wanna hit them.

[–] amuser 12 years ago

I'm Australian, and was on a cruise with Australians whilst watching this film.

Lots of people on the cruise were overweight and uncultured. So yes, this is pretty accurate :)

[–] jillsand-1 9 years ago

Yes, but remember AMUSER that most Aussies are not really Australians these days because of multi-culturalism. Most Aussies these days are Arabs, Africans, Asians. Get my drift?

[–] Annabelle2918 9 years ago

Are REAL Australians not Aborigines? I hate the Anglo-Australian mentality. They won't even call people with ancestry from mainland Europe "real Australians".

You have to be the right kind of white, or the bogans will come after you.

[–] summeriris 9 years ago

Does that mean that Arabs, Africans, Asians are sub-human no matter what country they live in?

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