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steakout-05 · 1 day ago

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i hate how everytime australia gets brought up ever everyone's always like "ouhhhg australia is so dangerous all the animals want to kill you!!! lol aren't these animals so weird and creepy and gross!? kill it with fire!!! did you know australia is mostly barren desert!?!?? (not even true) how do people even live there lol what the fuck??? this country is so weeiirrddd" like oh my god shut uppp. fuckin breaking news local american internet user finds out other country is different from theirs and physically can't comprehend it

#the ''australia is mostly desert how do people even live there'' is especially angering #because 1. that is fucking false and 2. way to ignore the existence of aboriginal australians #who mind you have literally been living in those deserts for thousands and thousands of years before you developed-#-the fingers necessary to type something so unimaginably stupid #australian deserts aren't barren they're full of diverse wildlife and plants and cool rocks they're actually so beautiful #i hate that aboriginal australians barely get any acknowledgement whatsoever and are erased constantly #they are literally the backbone of this entire continent why does no one talk about them 😭#also hate how people talk about australia's wildlife as if weird animals are exclusive to australia #and the disrespect they get in general #australian animals are not scary horrible killing machines wtf #like yeah they may get aggressive but like. all wild animals do that????#i'm not saying calling them weird is horrible or anything. because some of them are odd #but the whole ''kill it with fire'' sentiment i see directed towards australia is just. can you not #it's not even a joke anymore it's legit what people think. it's so annoying #i think some animals in america are fucking weird but does anyone make a big hoo-ha over that? no so shut your butt #also the reason i called americans out specifically is because it's usually people from america saying stuff like this #i'm not just being all 'ough america sucks' no the people saying this are usually 9 times out of 10 american #also this reminds me of that time i found a tumblr post about how australia's easter mascot is a bilby #because we don't really have rabbits over here and the bilby is a native animal so of course it's gonna be our mascot it makes sense #and someone reblogged it like ''what the fuck'' and i'm just like ??????? what #what is wrong with that. literally what. why are people intimidated and confused by that what 😭#oh how dare another country have different ideas and mascots and customs from the one country with main character syndrome lmaooo #pre-post drafting edit: i found the post and it's just as annoying to me as when i first saw it hurrah #even more annoying seeing it again because the easter bilby is meant to raise awareness of its endangerment #how does that warrant a ''wtf'' response what is happening #australia #misconceptions #australian animals #aboriginal australian

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