Not being able to make eye contact with people through the cracks in the bathroom stall door.
Why do you Americans do this to yourselves?
What?
Having your kitchen and laundry combined so that the machines are in the same
room. That's really weird.
Being expected to know another language other than English.
Wow, that would never happen in Australia.
They would expect you to know English.
English motherfucker, do you speak it?
But I can't imagine them expecting you to know another language unless you went to an area where
there was a large community of people, say Italians or Greeks or Vietnamese people, and you went
into a store that usually just services that community.
Sometimes you'll meet people there who don't even speak English.
So, maybe in that situation they may be like, well, we assume you're not going to try and speak
English with us because we speak Vietnamese here.
You are not from around here, are you?
But other than that, no, that'd be very weird.
But I can imagine in Europe that happens everywhere.
Unions. Just watched 'Cloud Nine' on Netflix, and if someone tried to bust a
union in my country, it would make national news and gather massive support.
Yeah, so there are lots of unions here in Australia, too.
Again, I'm not sure if that would be America or Europe.
So, unions are effectively groups that take care of workers' rights in
Australia. So, you'll have like the teacher's union or the workers
union at Worksites, Tradies Union, and they look after those workers.
I think it would be the same thing in Australia if you tried to bust up a union here and get rid of
it, and get rid of unions altogether, people would riot.
And that's not going to happen.
I think you would have a lot of people in the streets protesting.
Songs with swear words being broadcasted on the radio or swear words not being covered
with a beep tone on TV.
Oh, [beep].
It's always felt weird to me that Americans are all about being free and freedom
of speech, but then again, they are scared of some stupid words.
Yeah, it's pretty funny.
I find that amusing, too, and it happened in Australia when I was growing up.
There would be certain restrictions with what type of TV could be shown at what
times, and it would be the same for radio.
And so, if it was during a certain period of time like, say, 9am
to 7pm in that window, there's probably a restriction and it has to be
PG, meaning parental guidance.
So, they're not going to have swearing, they're not going to have sex scenes or they're not going
to have people talking about adult themes like drugs.
We need to protect the children.
The swear words in music would always be beeped out, but if you're watching late at night or early
in the morning, it wouldn't be.
The weird thing was that you could always tell what the swear word was for you would hear, f-beep
. ***ing sucks. And so, I always found it kind of redundant.
It's like you might as well just mute the whole thing.
Guys, I am very aware of the ***ing stupid fact that I have to beep out every ***ing
swear word, because ***ing YouTube will demonetise me.
Automatically receiving a voting ballot in the mail and getting paid time off to go
voting. Jesus, this is Europe.
I can't imagine doing that.
I kind- I can imagine getting the voting ballot, that'll happen in Australia, right.
That'll- You'll get that in the mail or at least instructions on how to vote, but I can't imagine
being paid to go and vote.
I'm rich, bitch! I don't think that would happen here.
Putting mayonnaise on french fries instead of ketchup.
Why would you do that? Firstly, ketchup.
So, this is American.
Ketchup, we would never say "ketchup".
We would say tomato sauce.
Or if you're really Australian, "dead horse".
But yeah, it's becoming more and more common to see aioli, which I think is what garlic and
mayonnaise being offered at places where you get burgers and chips and everything for you to have
the chips dipped in. So, it's becoming less and less of a weird thing.
When I was growing up, it was not something you would have ever seen anywhere.
Maybe tartar sauce at a fish and chip place, but not mayonnaise.
When I was studying architecture in Prague, the dorms that turned into a
hostel in the summer had co-ed showers with private stalls.
Everyone took their shower in the stall and then tailed off in the common area together.
Yeah, so I guess the thing here is having toilets where men and women can both go.
There are places in Australia where you'll have unisex facilities, so that means that either
sex can go and use them.
I always found it weird that we kind of have these separated, I guess we probably do it for the
sake of children.
But at the same time, it's kind of like, once you have your own family and you live at home with a
group of people, everyone uses the bathroom together.
It's not really a weird thing.
So, I always found it a bit strange that we don't have more unisex facilities, especially if
they're all stalls that you can use privately.
What are you going to see if they're not change rooms, they're just toilets?
Don't find it that weird.
[pooing and screams of disgust] Letting kids go to school or walk around the neighbourhood by
themselves without supervision.
A Dutch family moved to the US and their kids went to school on their bikes like they
always do.
After a while, the police showed up on their doorstep and child protective services.
That's weird. That's very weird.
In Australia it's pretty common for kids to just walk to school or to ride their bikes to school.
There's no issue here.
Will, somebody please call Child Protective Services.
I think people are a lot less Liberal than they used to be, so when my dad was a kid, the age of
eight, he was probably out and about in the streets without supervision.
For us, it's probably more like once you get to about 12 years old, unless you're going to school.
And usually when you're going to school at a younger age, you know, under 12, you're probably going
to be with other kids or maybe walking with other family members.
But any time you're going to and from school, there's other people in the street doing the same
thing. So, it's kind of pretty safe.
Taking the bus, there is so much stigma around public transport in the US, especially buses.
And in Europe it's just a totally normal way to get around because no one wants to deal with driving
and parking in a big city.
Yeah, in the big cities in Australia, this would be pretty normal getting a bus or getting a train
or a tram if you've got them in your city.
But when you go out into the more rural areas, it's definitely a little more
dodgy. You're going to come across a lot of interesting characters on the bus because
generally they're going to be people who don't have the kind of income to be able
to purchase a car and drive the car where they want to go.
Or because of certain substances they may be unable to drive a car.
So, they'll be young kids or students.
But then you're going to get if they're 30, 40, 50 years old, they're going to be probably a little
on the strange side quite often.
Bus wankers!
Where did that come from?
I don't know, it just felt right.
I mean, I've heard a lot of stories.
My wife uses the bus sometimes and she's just like, geez, there are some rare units on the
bus. Apparently having your laundry machines in the kitchen, I think it
would be great, but Americans appear to be horrified by the thought on real estate social media
groups. Yeah, that's weird.
Having your kitchen and laundry combined so that the machines are in the
same room, that's really weird.
You just said... You would have your washing machine and or your dryer in a
laundry, a different room in Australia, and you'll have your dishwasher and everything in the
kitchen and never the two shall meet.
They'll be separated well and truly.
So, that would be a bit of a shock, I think, unless you were living in, say, a
one-bedroom apartment or something, or a studio apartment where it's all the
same room and there's no space.
So, you make sure, you know, you have all the machines in the same place.
But if it's a normal house, you're never going to see that in Australia.
Not being able to make eye contact with people through the cracks in the bathroom stall door.
Why do you Americans do this to yourselves?
What?
Not being able to make eye contact with people through the cracks in the bathroom
stall door.
That's creepy. Yeah, I'm not sure what they're asking, to be honest.
Are they thinking it's weird because you can't do it or they're thinking it's weird because you can
do it? Yeah, I'm not sure about that.
Making eye contact through the stall door in the bathroom.
I think you would generally just leave people alone.
If they go into the toilet, just leave them alone.
Thanks for joining me, guys.
I hope you enjoyed this video.
Check out this one if you want to learn about culture shock in Australia, and I'll see you next
time. Bye.