Australians are a Polite People 


    When unrestrained emotional Koreans or Americans have a problem,
they expect the whole world to take an interest, listen and help them solve
it. They called their sleeping friends on the phone and selfishly contacted 
at two in the morning, and spent hours discussing the details and drinking
much beer and sometimes pouring out tears, while all manner of possible
suggestions are put forward. 

    No Australian would stand for such behavior. Australians are a polite 
and courteous people. In Australia it's considered bad manners to foist 
your problems  onto  others.  you  may  be  in  the  middle  of a nervous 
breakdown, but under no circumstances are you to admit to any difficulties.

    While Australians have problems like everyone else, it is considered
highly improper to voice these in intelligible terms.  Polite Australians 
always talk about things that bother them with veiled cryptic comments.

    A Korean with matrimonial troubles, for example, will most likely to
go, meet a friend and say: "I had an argument with my wife last night and
she told me that if I didn't stop drinking with other women and start coming
home on time, she would walk out on me."

    This way of talking about problem is not acceptable in Australia. An 
Australian in a similar predicament, after a long evening of not essential
and inconsequential conversation with a friend, furtively start to remark:
"My wife has been strange lately." "She's been acting like a cat." 

    Here we can find very important rule. Well-bred friends in Australia
know always to keep their distance and not get involved. If you take note
of  the  problems  of  others  or even offer to help them in a moment of 
embrassment,  you  would  be  shuned by them ever after for your tactless 
behaviour. You may know that your friends are currently in any trouble but
you must never say anything about that at the meeting. They may have lost
their jobs or just devorced something like that, you still simply overlook
that and go along with a good-lucky gesture.

    Keypoint is to hold back from talking about the things that bother you
and do nothing about them and ignore them until circumstances allow you
only one possible solution. following this rule, you are now to understand
a polite Australian.