I’m an immigrant from Australia and I remember having to change my word choices even though Canada and Australia are nearly culturally identical. It must be a lot more work coming from less culturally similar places.
Sooo, racism is a bigger deal here than in Australia, often words that have racist histories have been just accepted as slang in Australia ina type of “reclaim” thing. He wasn’t racist per se, but he did need a lot of education on the history of some slang and why it isn’t used in Canada. He was ALWAYS good about it, didn’t mean any harm but just didn’t know.
Also, when looking for flip flops, walking into walmart asking the employee where the “male thongs” are WAs a mildly embarrassing venture for him.
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I’m an immigrant from Australia and I remember having to change my word choices even though Canada and Australia are nearly culturally identical. It must be a lot more work coming from less culturally similar places.
This is interesting to me. Do you have any examples of how you would word something differently in Australia compared to Canada?
I worked with a guy fresh from Australia….
Sooo, racism is a bigger deal here than in Australia, often words that have racist histories have been just accepted as slang in Australia ina type of “reclaim” thing. He wasn’t racist per se, but he did need a lot of education on the history of some slang and why it isn’t used in Canada. He was ALWAYS good about it, didn’t mean any harm but just didn’t know.
Also, when looking for flip flops, walking into walmart asking the employee where the “male thongs” are WAs a mildly embarrassing venture for him.
Yeah, righto cunt, I’m heading to the bottle-o to grab some grog, I reckon I can drop by after for a bit of a chinwag.
Well, they really don’t like it when you call them a cunt here.