Post Tagged with "Australia"

Picture Postcards: Aussie wedding cake

February’s Picture Postcards photo theme is love. Here’s an Australian wedding cake topper with the groom dressed as AFL Hawks player, Luke Hodge.

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Test your cultural expertise: do Australians celebrate personal accomplishments?

This new series is a chance to test your cultural expertise. Each week we’ll post a question, you post your answers in the comments. The ‘model’ answer will be published in next week’s post.

Questions and answers are donated by GSI, an intercultural and global management training network.

We know that many of you are reading from different parts of the world and so it’s likely that you have many different answers for each question. We’d love to hear your opinions in the comments. Even if you don’t usually comment, we invite you to join in the conversation!

Here’s the first question:

Australia is a place where you definitely should celebrate your personal accomplishments and remind others about them.

True or False?

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Best of of 2010: a world tour in twenty-three posts

We’d like to say goodbye to 2010 wıth a world tour of favourite posts from each of our contributors. Here they are, in the order in which each one celebrates midnight. Happy New Year!

Marie (New Zealand): The New Zealand Dairy

“Where would Kiwis be without the local dairy? Certainly situations such as running out of the milk needed for the perfect cup of tea or not having enough snacks to share while watching a film on TV could get quite hairy.”

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How Do You Eat Your Vegemite?

Photo Credit: noodleator

Love it or hate it, I’m sure you’ve heard of the famous spread that us Aussies grow up on.

Maybe you’ve found yourself in a Marmite Vs. Vegemite debate, or been force-fed by an eager Aussie friend, keen to witness this life-changing moment.

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School Days Around the World

Recently on PocketCultures, we have featured collaborative posts to reflect the varying experiences of our contributors in different countries. These include Superstitions around the world and one of our most popular posts, Kiss, hug or shake hands?

This month, we asked our contributors from around the world to tell us about a typical school day in their country.

United Kingdom

Photo credit: shaindlin

Lucy Chatburn wrote:

Children in the UK usually start going to school just before their fifth birthday. They attend primary school until the age of eleven, and then secondary school until the age of sixteen or eighteen. At primary school the typical day is from 9am to 3.15pm, with slightly longer days in secondary school.

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Indigenous Flags of Australia

Aboriginal Flag

Artist Harold Thomas, a Luritja man from central Australia, designed the Aboriginal flag symbolising race and identity. It was first flown in 1971 on National Aboriginal and Islander Day in Adelaide, South Australia.

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