Cultural Differences Between Australia And Usa

The best experience I’ve had where I was able to experience diverse cultures and points of view was the International Air Cadet Exchange. This is an exchange program for youth in Air Cadet programs around the globe, and I had the opportunity to represent the Unites States in Australia for two and a half weeks. I met people from eight other countries and four continents, sharing my experiences in my home country with them and vice versa. While our governments may have different agendas and our cultures might be very different, we all found ways to relate to one another and form friendships. I didn’t know what to expect when I first arrived in Australia. While it is a very western nation, there are undoubtedly significant cultural differences between it and the US. It was not the major differences, like in accent or in laws, but it was the little things that surprised me, like the spelling of ‘tire’ as ‘tyre,’ or the prevalence of baked beans during breakfast. …show more content…
We were instructed to keep the dialogue as ‘academic’ as possible to prevent an international incident, but it was clear that as soon as we arrived that no matter what people thought of the US and its foreign policy, people could easily distinguish that from the American delegation. Some of them didn’t like America, but they all loved Americans. I was constantly surprised by the camaraderie between nations, with the South Koreans and the Chinese walking through the Korean War Memorial together as friends, seeing images of their countrymen kill one