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<blockquote data-quote="mirzabah" data-source="post: 244570" data-attributes="member: 3211">Heh! You know how there are &quot;Don't shoot me I'm Canadian&quot; T-Shirts? Well there isn't really an NZ/Aus equivalent, but the attitude's about the same <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> If you mistake an Australian for a Kiwi, you'll get a chuckle. If you mistake a New Zealander for an Australian, you'll get a look that could freeze a gorgon at a 100 paces.There's also this weird cultural appropriation thing that the Australian media does, which, as an Australian, I have to say is pretty sad. If a NZ actor/director/musician/artist/whatever so much as stops over in Australia on their way to fame and fortune in the US or in Europe, then they're suddenly full-blooded, dinky-di, true-blue, ridgy-didge Australians that just happen to have been born on the wrong side of the Tasman. It doesn't matter if they were completely ignored while they were here in Australia, once they're famous, wherever they're famous, they're ours.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mirzabah, post: 244570, member: 3211"] Heh! You know how there are "Don't shoot me I'm Canadian" T-Shirts? Well there isn't really an NZ/Aus equivalent, but the attitude's about the same ;) If you mistake an Australian for a Kiwi, you'll get a chuckle. If you mistake a New Zealander for an Australian, you'll get a look that could freeze a gorgon at a 100 paces. There's also this weird cultural appropriation thing that the Australian media does, which, as an Australian, I have to say is pretty sad. If a NZ actor/director/musician/artist/whatever so much as stops over in Australia on their way to fame and fortune in the US or in Europe, then they're suddenly full-blooded, dinky-di, true-blue, ridgy-didge Australians that just happen to have been born on the wrong side of the Tasman. It doesn't matter if they were completely ignored while they were here in Australia, once they're famous, wherever they're famous, they're ours. [/QUOTE]

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