Quote: (11-18-2015 07:26 PM)CodyB Wrote:
Ah, but an American would understand how Aussies travel because culturally we are far closer to the US and Canada then we are to Other anglophone countries.
My response to Robert Plant was a bit over the top, that sort of traveller one-upmanship wasn't really called for. My point is that Australians are ridiculously everywhere in proportion to our 23 million population, so much so that any exotic airs about us (pfft) are long gone around much of the world. I'm not just referring to the Contiki/Topdeck/Busabout crowd terrorising major capitals. I don't know why locals in SEA bother so hard flogging us massages, Beerlao singlets and other kitschy souvenirs. Even in second/third tier cities, that other person with a backpack you spot across the road will invariably be an Australian.
That blonde American coed you were gaming in Paris? You're the
nth Australian to have approached her in Europe, each of of them jacked and entertaining her with some variation of the cocky clown/caveman game. I too, naïvely expected local girls anywhere to spread their legs upon hearing the Aussie accent as soon as I stepped out of my dorm. A Canadian girl brought up the whole "you Aussies are everywhere" in my Sarajevo hostel. A shit test, yes, but she was still feminine by Anglo standards. Sure, I was by no means the first Aussie she'd come across, but she realised that I could walk outside and have my pick of hot Slavic tail.
Which in turn begs the question of why Aussie girls in Asia don't feel threatened by local women. Why they aren't immediately shamed into behaving more feminine and working on their appearance. It takes a elite level of hamsterising to write off the competition of Asian women as being below their level. Similarly, Australian girls I know that have travelled to Ukraine, Russia and Poland have collectively expressed the belief that Slavic dudes are ugly as sin, and in the same breath dared have the gall to voice their shock and indignation that
these same guys can end up with a hot, feminine girl (
shock, horror!) as long as he's somewhat got his shit together (read: has a job, isn't an alcoholic).
Are they that happy to shut themselves out of the dating market? A Dutch sailing buddy told me how he was put off by local girls when did a Working Holiday in Oz. The binge drinking, swearing, burping and other masculine behaviour. Surely he wasn't the only one?
I have a theory on why Australian women shame the prospect of pairing up with an Asian girl as being "unable to land a girl back home" or "sexual exploitation".
Someone else might chime in with a more nuanced or accurate take, but here goes.
Bear in mind this have been expressed a few generations before millenial SJWs.
The habit of Australian servicemen bringing back war brides from Japan, Korea and Vietnam kicked off this feeling of Asian girls encroaching on Aussie women's territory. Australia was mostly involved in the Asia-Pacific theatre by the end of WW2, hence the relative lack of European brides (generally by the RAAF).
Sure, our women were much more feminine and still kept traditional roles, by having seen greener pastures, our subpar Anglo-Celtic genes in women became pretty apparent. Women were fast-tracked towards masculinity taking on further responsibility on the home front and war effort anyway. There was already a slight shortage of men from wartime losses. A similar angst would've erupted had Soviet troops brought back German war brides
en masse.
European wives brought back by North American troops weren't seen as much of a threat because of the relatively large Continental admixture already present.
It was during the Vietnam war that even Australian men started to stigmatise Asian girls as being "wan dorrah me ruv yu rrong time" LBFMs. Ironically, the counterculture movement back home may have added to that. I mean, there was business to be made, after all, and seduction is as old a wartime spin-off as the arms dealer. Slight tanget, these girls had lost families and homes to bombing, they weren't all destitute initially; their brothers and husbands in the ARVN if still alive were woefully underequipped and unsupported, it was a cheap shot for the Allies to have seen them as whores and their men, cowards.