8 Mind Blowing Culture Shocks That Will SURPRISE You in Australia!

[@AussieEnglishPodcast]

What culture shock have you experienced in Australia? Comment below! 👇

[@JohnTheYouTubeSuperfan]

Hello Pete Smissen of Aussie English, I love your videos!

[@miniveedub]

You’re right, I’m a senior woman and I don’t use c**t at all. Neither do any of my friends. My grandchildren probably do, they’re all adults anyway, but I haven’t heard it. I do use f**k, but not often, I think you need to be sparing with at least one strong word so you can drag it out when you really need it for impact. 🙊 When I greet strangers in a lift or a waiting room or wherever I usually just say g’day. I don’t want to ask a stranger how they’re going.

[@knifeyonline]

Senior Ladies ask me to reach the top shelf in the supermarket all the time 😄 Maybe I look particularly approachable

[@anau67]

I have lived in Australia for 40 years, and I call people “sweety” when I am about to stick a needle in their arm (my occupation) highly unprofessional, but I do. It rubbed on me. From my colleagues. “Little sting now sweety” 😂😂

[@AussieEnglishPodcast]

haha I'm sure they appreciate the friendliness! I would... I hate needles...

[@coujo65]

I’ve taken to calling people “doll features”. I call blokes “love” to see how it lands. 😆

[@Noelzsazsa]

On ya love

[@cooperjay4823]

As a Queenslander i gotta say, your reservation to say cunt to strangers is very southern. Not everyone, but a lot of Queenslanders do.

[@AussieEnglishPodcast]

hahaha

[@knifeyonline]

weirdly as South Ozzian I completely expect that from a Queenslander lol

[@cassieoz1702]

Like most profanities, the use of the C word depends on where you are and who you mix with. I'm a rural farmer in NSW and can't remember the last time I heard it used.

[@XaviRonaldo0]

Rugby League mate not Rugby. The term Rugby in Australia generally refers to Rugby (Union) is a minority sport across the country. Rugby League though is a very different sport although both based on the same roots and basic goal. Rugby League is far more popular in NSW and QLD than Union is. So in summary if you say Rugby in Australia you mean union and if you're referring to the other one you either say Rugby League or just League.

[@Zygon13]

Ye I was going to add this comment.

[@MrMickthemonster]

Not a fan of the small talk but bloody hell i love a conversation with someone i don't know. I want to know about you. It freaks some people out but I mean no harm and I respect it if they don't want to partake but that's just my nature. I like people and where they're from and what makes them them.

[@AussieEnglishPodcast]

Some of the best convos I've ever had have been with complete strangers.

[@MrMickthemonster]

@@AussieEnglishPodcast "a stranger is just a friend you ain't met yet"

[@hamzahsayang]

I'm Australian born and i also don't like small talk lol. Rather read a book.

[@AussieEnglishPodcast]

Yeah, to each their own I guess :)

[@coujo65]

You could get that as a tattoo! On your forehead would be helpful.

[@sarahclaireclaire7586]

🤣 we have a movie, "They're a Weird Mob" 😂

[@AussieEnglishPodcast]

Haha I watched that a few years ago and loved it. One of things that blew my mind was him buying a lot of land near Sydney and having a view of the bay... I couldn't believe how much spare land there was back then haha

[@sporehux8344]

Don't forget there is 2 types of "Rugby", that are both called footy, one of them referred to as "League" So you only have a 1 in 4 chance of guessing what footy it is.

[@AussieEnglishPodcast]

Just to add to the confusion haha

[@TheLargino]

@@AussieEnglishPodcast People growing up in Darwin played all types of "footy" year round. Nobody could assume the type of sport others played. Differentiation between the different games was easy and named accordingly; Aussie Rules (AFL), League (Rugby League/NRL), Union (Rugby Union), Soccer (Theatre Sport) and Gridiron/American Football. Simples

[@fleachamberlain1905]

3:12 That would be heavenly. Perhaps it's just my autism, but I hate small talk. It is incredibly anxiety inducing. Especially with strangers. I don't find it polite of people to make me profoundly uncomfortable at all. I think we Aussies could take a leaf from Finland's book.

[@AussieEnglishPodcast]

I hadn't thought about that before. I'd definitely avoid it with anyone if I knew it would make them uncomfortable.

[@jeanbates3832]

In 40 years I’ve never heard anyone say that word. Don’t believe everything you catch on here!

[@magmalin]

I came to Australia as a small child in the 1960s. There were only two things that schocked me: 1. Having to wear a uniform at school, having to sing "God save the queen" under the waving British and Australian flags at the monday morning assemblies. I liked the song which was considered as the Australian national anthem at that time though: There is a land where summer skies are gleaming with a thousand eyes .... But why was I to render homage to some useless royal? 2. Christmas in summer didn't feel like Christmas at all inspite of the decorations, the Christmas tree, our traditional German Christmas meals and presents. Spending Christmas Day at the beach was just like any other Weekend going to the beach. In Juli/August, "winter" in Perth, my brother and I used to go to the bush at the end of our dead end street looking for some kind of shrub resembling a pine tree at least a bit, which we then decorated and played Christmas. There was no air condition in those days. Were first lived in a double brick house from which had been built around 1900. The heat in summer was no problem there. Then we moved to a newly built house the walls of which seemed to have been made of cardboard. It really got hot there and it didn't even cool down at night. When the temperature here in Germany reached about 30°C it isn't much of a problem. The walls of my house are 50 cm thick. I usually open all the windows in the early morning and then roll down the blinds for the rest of the day. There's no need for air condition. I loved wearing thongs (I still do in summer), unfortunately it was forbidden to wear them at school in Australia. In German schools there are no restrictions, you can wear what you like.

[@stuchump6618]

Ahhhhh Victorians. Bless them. Rugby is not the main sport of Queensland and NSW. League/Rugby League is. Rugby (rugby union) is a minor sport.

[@pennylanghorn6712]

I’m an Aussie now residing in Hiroshima This was such a great link thank you Japan is a lovely country But I do miss my homeland too of course I’m so glad to be an Aussie ❤❤❤

[@reddog1461]

No culture shock, but the bit at around 7:30ish... 'unless they don't like you'..That's when we're even more friendly...lmfao

[@AussieEnglishPodcast]

hahaha right? :D

[@sarahclaireclaire7586]

Lol, we gasbag over the fence..🤣

[@AussieEnglishPodcast]

Hehe true that. I wish we had lower fences more commonly nowadays though :(

[@lanceheyen645]

I'm in Brisbane, we still have one 24 hour Woolworths. Doing your grocery shop at 1am is great.

[@lynettelillyman68]

Casual language is fine howeverI a extremely disappointed that the language has degenerated to such an extent that they cannot have a decent conversation without using foul language.. It is not Ausie, it is just insulting& shows the ignorance of the speaker. Thank goodness, my children & grandchildren do not swear. It is great. Lyn

[@The_Aussie_Truckie]

If you wanna make money in Australia be a truck driver in drive from Sydney to Brisbane to Melbourne and back to Sydney every week and I make around $2,000 a week

[@AussieEnglishPodcast]

Yeah, I've got a mate who drives large machinery (diggers, big trucks) and he's on like 10k a month. Though, feels like way less as he lives in Sydney.

[@ninjakirby777]

As an Australian I hate small talk, if I want to talk to you it’s for a reason and if I want to waste some time while waiting for something that’s what I have youtube for lol

[@AussieEnglishPodcast]

haha fair call!

[@GcTheHardstyler]

I'm often called blunt or considered rude because I don't partake in small talk. I just don't wanna have to talk unless I have a reason and I like the silence, no need to ruin it with pointless chats 😂

[@r.fairlie7186]

@@GcTheHardstyler Like the classic British opening line “Have you come far”? 😉 P.S. Apparently there’s a retreat in France where every guest room has a plaque that says “If you’re thinking of saying words that aren’t as beautiful as silence, please don’t say them”.

[@dianacasey6002]

⁠wow you would love the movie where if you aren’t silent you get attached by alien beings so everyone has to be silent. It’s actually pretty shitty but you might like it.

[@dianacasey6002]

@@r.fairlie7186my favourite word in the world is loquacious it’s nice to say and I like it’s meaning.

[@stuartm3684]

Wringing Pom worried about paying for sause, just saw today that Pommy servos charge to use the air pump. They literally charge for air

[@baabaabaa-El]

I grew up in the 70s and no-one had air cond (maybe rich ppl).. If we had a heatwave like 7 days over 35° and the house got too hot, we'd sleep down the beach!

[@AussieEnglishPodcast]

haha yeah, I was the same in the 80s and 90s from memory. Though we lived up in the Dandenong Ranges in Vic, so it was often colder up there in the mountains anyway. Now, though, it's unthinkable not having one. However, the price to run them is getting worse and worse...

[@eclecticapoetica]

Wage growth is actually up and accelerating, especially for jobs in the lowest paid sectors.

[@AussieEnglishPodcast]

Yeah, it's good to see, the main issue though is inflation being so much higher than wage growth that we've lost buying power comparatively :( hope it bounces back though

[@michal7817]

G'day mate, greetings front post-soviet Poland 😂 Love your vids! You said that shops in au are closed at holidays. Home about weekends? :) Cheers

[@AussieEnglishPodcast]

Hey mate, yeah weekends they're open. It's honestly not that bad haha not like they're closed all the time. It's just that they're closed at different times when many foreigners don't expect it

[@blackdog6969]

Last 5 years or so, many shops can open during holidays but it's usually for half the typical business hours. A balance of allowing employees celebrate while keeping customers happy, especially the bottle'os

[@sarahclaireclaire7586]

🤣🤣🤣 ..🤦‍♀️ you gave away the secret of the sauce packets.... When i eat fish when I'm out and about, i buy a bottle of tartee sauce at Coles😂😂😂

[@AussieEnglishPodcast]

hahaha so it's not just me!?

[@JaneNewAuthor]

I'm Australian and I've lived in every state. (Not NT or ACT, but I've visited.) Friendliness ranges from people wanting to know you're life history in rural, more isolated areas, to coldness in Melbourne and Sydney. Very much geography dependent. And I've experienced snow on Tasmanian mountains on Christmas Day.

[@ktipuss]

Speaking of tipping, when you pay by card at some outlets (mostly cafes or restaurants), on the little screen will flash an option to give a tip. can be as much as 20%. I tell them that we are in Oz, not in the U.S. At least it's still an option (I think legally they can't automatically add it on).

[@productivitydiary2024]

As an immigrant is a must-watch your reaction to Jonhson’s yt video.

[@AussieEnglishPodcast]

Hehe cheers, mate! Hope you enjoyed it! Have you had any culture shocks here?

[@picoallen]

I'm with you on the sauce rort. It's a national scandal. Now when I go on a long drive, such as to visit the relies (bugger that's an unwritable word - I mean relatives) interstate, I take a sauce bottle in a cooler bag with me in the car so I don't have to pay through the nose when I stop for a pastie or chips.

[@shirleyferguson6727]

two of my favourite you tubers in the one video I am laughing my head off

[@AussieEnglishPodcast]

Haha no kidding? Had you already seen this vid before (the one I'm reacting to)?

[@lover-of-fate]

24 hr servos are typical in most cities. Geez mate don't tell them the tomato sauce satchel game.

[@AussieEnglishPodcast]

hahahaha

[@britchesanstitches4624]

Most government housing doesn't doesn't have air-conditioning an you aren't allow to pur in yourself unless you get special permission. Because their attitude is if we say yes to you them other people who can't afford their own air-conditioning. So it causes problems. We don't even have over head fans in our house. Heating you have one source of heating which is usually in the lounge room an it doesn't spend through out the house an government housing is very draftee because the houses aren't maintained very much since they where built.

[@AussieEnglishPodcast]

Far out! I didn't realise that was a thing :(

[@britchesanstitches4624]

@@AussieEnglishPodcast I livex in a house for 22 years an the only thing they did wad gave us a new kitchen an a disabled bathroom because you had a shower in a bath otherwise. Unless they bought a private house

[@AussieEnglishPodcast]

Sorry to hear that mate :( hope you're in a better situation now!

[@britchesanstitches4624]

@AussieEnglishPodcast little at least the roof isn't leaking the floors are collapsing.. thus isn't isolated this throughout the government housing an the myth we get cheap housing no when you take into account we are mostly on pensions or low income 😉

[@sarahclaireclaire7586]

Thongs with socks are now popular to wear in winter😂

[@AussieEnglishPodcast]

Haha have you rocked it?

[@sarahclaireclaire7586]

​@@AussieEnglishPodcastNo Way...😂

[@AussieEnglishPodcast]

hahaha

[@Mikacreative]

I came to Australia in 2001 after Sydney Olympic. I saw many Australian skinny athletes on TV. Then I came here…..bit shocked 😳

[@AussieEnglishPodcast]

lol what're you trying to say? We've got overweight athletes now? haha

[@FionaEm]

Most of us aren't Olympic athletes 😅

[@AussieEnglishPodcast]

lol I wish I were...

[@ray.shoesmith]

Rugby isn't Rugby, it's Rugby League. No one except private schoolboys plays Rugby

[@productivitydiary2024]

I have to get used to swearing over here😂

[@AussieEnglishPodcast]

Lol practice with friends first...

[@FionaEm]

I think blokes say the c word more than we do. I dislike the word and only say it to describe a certain US President-elect 😎😆 BTW went to Lord Howe Island in 2007. Stunning place ❤

[@AussieEnglishPodcast]

Haha I think I'd be a bit taken aback by a woman that used it more than the average guy to be honest. Hahaha re: the president. Do you call him the Orange C&nt? Yeah, it was a magnificent place :)

[@TheFantasticFox822]

Yes to all 👍🇦🇺🦘🇦🇺

[@reinokarvinen8845]

after some years in australia on a boat in the crew bar I mentioned a norwegian guy in a jolly mood as a bastard. that just about ended in a fight

[@ThomasRyan-nf3wx]

When I was a kid shoes were off between October to April

[@ilyapetoushkoff8362]

6:20 Russian culture is very much the same. You are not supposed to talk to complete strangers (except when you need to for a reason, e.g. asking directions), and god forbid you smile whilst being in a public space on your own. Now that I've been here in Australia for almost a couple of years, I'm getting more used to small talks, although it still requires a severe conscious effort to execute them properly and to not pass off at times as rude. Cheers from Melbourne (where it's always farken cold!)!

[@pennyspencer450]

I want a shoe wearing question in the next census😂😂 and also who uses the c bomb on a regular basis... Most? I wonder...

[@AussieEnglishPodcast]

hahaha that'd be amazing! What would the options be?

[@PaulChavez-pk2gq]

Hi Pete, thanks for the gifts....🙂👍

[@AussieEnglishPodcast]

Hehe hope you enjoyed the episode, mate. Did you have any culture shocks I missed?

[@PaulChavez-pk2gq]

@@AussieEnglishPodcast Yes, because i live on the border between Mexico and the United States and the English is a little different, but I lke Australian english too much...😀 Saludos!!👋

[@kerrieannebaker8595]

coffee shops in melbourne's north used to be open til all hours in the 90's 2000's. i think the shrinking economy has affected hours.

[@cassieoz1702]

A lot of these things are about density of population (the friendliness stuff). Folks who live in (urban) concrete heat islands, need aircon because the cities have changed the local climate. I grew up in Perth and we had fans but never aircon

[@magmalin]

I grew up in Perth as well and we didn't even have fans. But that was a long time ago. I wonder what is like now. We went back to Europe and I haven't been there for 50 years.

[@davidmaclennan5925]

My last decade of experience in Australia is nothing like what you describe

[@davidmaclennan5925]

However, that’s precisely what Australia is, “small talk” Here nobody has any knowledge of what is going on in a global sense. Absolutely zero knowledge of what is going on anywhere outside of the suburb they live in? Zero general knowledge of anything outside of their immediate surroundings, completely ignorant of any suffering or hardship that any other person who is not as fortunate in a far less fortunate country? This video highlights the very very over privileged ignorant and spoiled mindset of the average Australian , culture shock? Work to live? That’s the biggest lie I’ve ever heard in the decade that I have been here

[@cassieoz1702]

Nope, cant remember the last time i saw folks (other than kids) walking around barefoot.

[@biravijnya]

2 vids in one week? Oh, we're so blessed!

[@AussieEnglishPodcast]

Hehe felt inspired this week :) Hope you enjoy it!

[@sarahclaireclaire7586]

😂 i hate the c word....I'm in my 50s

[@AussieEnglishPodcast]

lol it's just a very special colour your can paint with if you want haha

[@matthewcullen1298]

I'm a 50 year old carpenter and I don't see the need for it constantly. I work around a lot of family homes and most don't want to hear it. Modern bogans think it's cool but it's not. I've told young apprentices to cut it out. It doesn't make a good impression on clients and Many feel uncomfortable hearing it.

[@Xitlerwinniethepoohdictator]

No c#&t

[@gregoryparnell2775]

Why do so many people call anything other than AFL or Football (Soccer) Rugby .Please make the distinction between the Rugby codes. Rugby League & Rugby Union are two similar but completely different games with many different rules.

[@AussieEnglishPodcast]

They're the same thing, aren't they?

[@gregoryparnell2775]

No they are not. Rugby used to be the amateur game with a lot of different rules.and even though they are both now professional there are many different rules differentiating the two codes.

[@Noelzsazsa]

If you came to some of the work site i work on my nickname is super dero we continually haze all our workmates and make work like a sport at the same time making derogatory comments somtimes racist or sexist and it makes the day a bit of fun we have made former military members break by smoko that we say is totally unaustralian and weakness we all give equal and are no better than any other man or woman it's how we actually get to know someone that is working besides you is he or she a flop what do they really think and just because they don't like something that i am doesn't mean they don't trust and respect me i have the best Aussie mate's

[@AussieEnglishPodcast]

I think that's it. If you can take a joke and pull your weight at work, you'll go far.

[@MaxedReality]

I have experience more than 6 years in Sydney and more people like to talk alot old pepole but pepile aren't like American as American likes to say good morning to all the neighbours but in Australia u r free to say good morning or not

[@AussieEnglishPodcast]

Oh nice! Where're you originally from mate? Any other culture shocks you noticed?

[@MaxedReality]

@ I’m Egyptian and lived in too many countries The USA UAE And Australia as immigrants easy to desolve in The USA but Australia u need a little bit time once u reach that time u will love Australia the most I’m Australian and proud

[@lisarocchi335]

I’m Australian & I’ve never said the C word.. seriously, what type of people are you mixing with?

[@AussieEnglishPodcast]

lol other immature men I guess...

[@jc-qd6be]

I'm from the scrub ,, most people I know say it ..after you hear it so often it's no big deal.

[@lukeallen4398]

Football is played with the foot... its not rugby or cross country ping pong... Football means you don't use your hands... im Australian

[@SueNicholls-95]

Agree!! We used to call AFL aerial ping pong 😂

[@freeman10000]

Football is played on your feet so calling Aussie Rules and Rugby "footy" is legit.

[@krustykruss9685]

Except when the goalie picks it up, or players throw it in field from the touch line

[@isaaclewis103]

It is called soccer because they soccer the soccer ball.

[@baabaabaa-El]

If any game resembles ping pong... it's soccer! Back and bloody forth, with bugga all happening!! That's why a goal is called a goal, it's THE aim of the game! I watched a Prem League game with my grandad yrs back, some bloke fell over and dislocated his finger.. the docs gave him magic spray (you'd think he was shot, the act he bunged on!).. They stretchered him off.. for a dislocated finger!! Last game me and grandad ever watched.

[@TheAbeKane]

Yep screw those packet sauces in takeaway. I buy a bottle too. Yep ketchup has more sugar

[@AussieEnglishPodcast]

haha it's not just me! Good!

[@robertclothier3597]

That's interesting to know. I knew there was a difference but never knew what it was. Now I do tks.

[@Nannerchan]

I want to move to Australia, especially after the last election.

[@AussieEnglishPodcast]

As in ours or the US's one? haha

[@julesmarwell8023]

you like communism by the sound of it

[@datwistyman]

​@@AussieEnglishPodcast hopefully the US because our pm it a useless prick.

[@lover-of-fate]

Albo and Kamala are pretty similar, but albo is not going to stay for longer than one term. If he's lucky.

[@davecannabis]

Europeans and Seppoes have a white xmass we have a white hot xmass

[@cassieoz1702]

Johnston always pisses me off. He doesnt seem to understand that his experience is urban Queensland and doesnt necessarily apply everywhere. He wouldn't be remotely surprised if some aspects of life were different between Brighton and Sunderland and theyre way closer together than he ans me 🙄

[@RobbieDisco]

scar'non

[@TheFantasticFox822]

In Melbourne we only rarely use the ‘c’ word, in hushed tones, amongst close friends only, and never to describe a woman. We also work really hard. I think things are different in the north because so many people holiday there. 🇦🇺🦘🇦🇺

[@RickyisSwan]

The point that is missing from all these types of videos is that whatever outrageous thing they mention, no shoes, the c word, and other so-calledculture shocks are minimal. Some states more than others, especially QLD and NT who use outrageous language and do other weird things, are still only a fraction of the population. For example, in the central business district of Melbourne, among all the business people in suits, and well-dressed shoppers, you’re not gonna find people without shoes. The amount of people addressing others with the c word, will be a very tiny number. It’s quite annoying that these types of videos make it sound like the whole country are a bunch of uncouth yahoos. 🦘🇦🇺