We are all in the misleading habit of seeing our own culture and background as normal, and then being a little surprised when the rest of the world does things differently. But then again, the whole point of travel is to experience something new. Distances – Australia may have a moderately small population, but it is spread out over a very large area. There is no way to see it all in a short...
We know the television and other media are misleading. Few people live the life of a sitcom. But we can find we have picked up many misconceptions about other countries because we forget where the ideas originally came from. Foreigners have a few misconceptions about Australia. Australians live near the beach Actually a half-truth – 80% of the county’s population is within an hour’s...
