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(05-10-2017 06:32 PM)RIslander Wrote:  

(05-10-2017 05:41 PM)killjoy Wrote:  

I find "cunt" sounds especially harsh with an American accent.

It doesn't sound as bad with a British accent. Brits could probably slide it into conversation a lot more casually.

With an American accent it always gonna cut through bone.

With an Aussie accent "cunt" just sounds hilarious.

Interesting thought experiment: imagine Australian people don't exist, and that was a lone individual talking and behaving like that. Without being able to refer to it as a cultural behaviour, what would people in general say?

Probably adjectives like "simple", "slow", "obnoxious", "vulgar" and so on.

Overseas I've notice people think the following 2 things of me: I do daily battle with dangerous animals, and I probably have more money than them. Those are literally the only things the world knows about Aussies: nothing about them, only about their animals and their money.

"Name one cultural product of the Australians?"

"Name one invention of the Australians?"

"Name one war or conquest or successful battle Australians lead?"

"Name one revolution or social upheaval that marked Australian history?"

"Name a famous Australian actor who didn't become famous in Hollywood?"

"Name one tribe of the native race?" (by contrast, I'm guessing you all knew Apache & Navajo, Zulu & Masai, Aztec etc)

"Name the current Australian head of government or head of state?" (trick question, the latter is "the queen")

"Name an Australian animal?"
Kangaroo!!!!!!! Koala!!!!! So cute! And so many poisonous spiders and dangerous snakes! And sharks and crocodiles too! So scary!

So basically if it wasn't for the high Australian price index, and the dangerous/unique animals, nobody would have anything good to say about Australians, if anything at all. "Those are white prison rejects who live on a big island somewhere, right?"

And there's an example for you, OP. If you want to criticize effectively, you have to explain their shortcomings in an illustrative and clear way. Three-word one-liners are very Aussie. The harsh stuff is clear, irrefutable, and goes for a paragraph.