Does Australia suffer an inferiority complex towards the USA?

Question

It wants to be the best ally of G.W. Bush, send its military everywhere like G.W. Bush, interfere in other small countries' business, like G.W. Bush... but Australia is a small power, with a very insignificant economy on the world stage, a very small army, with no nuclear weapons... what's going on?
At least the UK, or Germany or France... and even China now can follow up... but Australia just can't.. but is trying to pretend to itself that it is this big superpower when it's not..
is it an inferiority complex towards other "western" nations, particularly the United States?

Answer 1

You are not talking about AUSTRALIA here, you are talking about our stupid lost soul of PM John Howard.
We have no aspirations to be like the US, only Howard thinks its a good idea to suck up to Bush. We will have a better leader soon, dont let our current situation worry you too much ok.

Answer 2

Australia doesn't have an inferiority complex towards America, Australia has an inferiority complex towards the whole world, rich or poor!, The evidence of this comes through loud and clear with the way our media reports on events and news stories. When something big happens in Australia that garners international attention our media can hardly contain it's absolute glee that Australia has made international headlines --port arthur massacre is a perfect example, most of the news hour was taken up with showing exerpts from overseas newsrooms reporting on the massacre! Woohoo Australia has been noticed, we hold the record for the most people killed in a single day massacre!! this kind of news reporting is disgusting and offensive. When a plane crashes the immediate concern is whether any Australians were killed and OMG it is so embarrasing when some silly australian interviewer asks some international celeb ---> what do you think of australia???? anxiously waiting for celeb to deliver gushing platitudes and compliments about how much they like Australia & Australians. The rest of the world doesn't do this, when a tragic events happens elsewhere in the world they are not concerned whether they made international headlines or not, they don't care whether an inerbational celeb vists or not. Maybe this inferiority complex stems from not having a long and turbulant history like a lot of older nations, who knows but you can't deny it's extistence when our media makes it painfully obvious that we are insecure about ourselves. Don't get me wrong, the average Australin doesn't feel insecure about our place in the world, it is our media and politicians that have the inferiority complex.

Answer 3

I think it was an inferiority complex in the beginning, you know, losing to a team every time in the playoffs for over 30 years will do that to anyone. I don't think that has anything to do with it anymore. I think the seed of hatred was already there and now both sides just automatically find fault with everything the other team does. The league does do things to promote this because it sells more tickets but I think that's all there is to it at this point. The Bruins fans who aren't old enough to remember the Habs' complete domination of the B's for those decades couldn't care less about it. Hell, I only remember it in the 80s when it faltered.

Answer 4

I thought G W Bush was from the UAE, not the USA... I mean he said himself he was going to the OPEC meeting next year. (That was of course after he realised that he was not already at it, as he said he was, to world media) Everyone knows that OPEC is a group of Arab oil producing nations.... right?

Unfortunately we have been led by a man for far too long who is as intellectually deficient as the Bush Pig. He is a narcissistic piece of cr@p who has mindlessly been brainwashed by his moronic mentor into believing that meddling under the guise of calling it global policing is a noble thing.

Mate, you can keep your United States. I have visited your country on a couple of occasions. I met loads of genuinely nice people, and had a great time, but I would not swap your smog, rednecked ignoramuses, or your lifestyle for the quality of life we enjoy here. I also met a few cretins like yourself. By the way, have you ever travelled any further afield than your trailer park?

In a couple of months we will have a change of government, who will hopefully guide us back to being a peaceful land of happy people who do not run around bombing the cr@p out of innocent nations.

With any luck, they will also decide to leave the uranium that make your sh!t nuclear weapons in the ground where it belongs.

Try to have a nice day, without bullying a smaller peaceful neighbour... it's never too late to stop being ignorant

Answer 5

This government has been determined to put Australia on the centre stage of world affairs, a place most Australians of my generation would say we are definitely NOT interested in being.

One of the benefits of being geographically isolated is that many hunderds of thousands of people from all around the world have made Australia their home in the last 100 years.

This diverse population has been establishged with minimal bloodshed or violence, and most people live fairly comfortably, financially and socially.

We have a small population, and the nature of our country's environment and resources may mean that a larger population is not desirable, or even possible.

For a great many settlers from foreign countries, Australia is a peaceful and safe place to live and raise a family, to make friends and have a peaceful life.

While we consider it important to have strong alliances with our friends, such as the USA and the UK, we have not sought the spotlight in world affairs, although Australia's contribution over the past century has been solid.

The Howard Liberal government has convinced its suporters that getting more involved in world affairs is a desirable thing. I believe this has pandered to his own and his supporters' egos, and big ideas of themselves.

We have neglected our traditional responsibilities in the south Pacific, resulting in tragic difficulties for many small nations, in favour of mixing with the high rollers.

Unfortunately, it has also had the effect of making us a handy target for all sorts of idiots, from fundamentalists to terrorists, which is even more negative as we don't have the exertise or numbers to truly support a fight against them by ourselves.

Looks like we are meshed in with nowhere to go except follow Bush's mad adventure to its tragic and inevitably humiliating conclusion ~ so much for the 'conservative' Howard's 'mandate'. I wonder if his supporters knew exactly what he had in mind when they cast their ballots?

Somehow, I doubt it, and the increasingly poor polls reflect that.

Cheers :-)

Answer 6

Australia (the country and population) definitely does not have an inferiority complex towards anything or anybody - (you want to come here and say things like that?)

But our Prime Minister unfortunately, does.

He has this obsession with crawling up the Yank's backside and an absolutely revolting adoration for George Bush. Without any consideration for the interests of this country he does his masters bidding. We are sick of it! This is one among many crimes against the Australian people that will get him and his party kicked out on his rearend next election (in a few weeks time). He is an absolute disgrace to the people of this country.

We might be small compared to the Imperialist US but we are the largest and strongest power in our region and our new Australian Government will concentrate on issues that concern Australia and Australians rather than following obsequiously along after the USA bully.

And just for the record - without Australia and Australians supporting them in times of peril, the other bigger and more powerful nations like the US and the UK would have had a much harder time. We have an incompetent and sycophantic PM at the moment but in the past many Australians have fought and died in many theatres of war for you guys..........show some respect at least!

Answer 7

Why the heck would we want an inferiority complex about the US. If you had ever been here you would realise that you have nothing that we could envy. If we hadn't had the cr@p government we have had for the last 11 years then nobody would regard us as little upstarts trying to be something we are not. Whoops , doesn't that sound like the efforts of somebody who will be retiring in a few weeks.

Answer 8

You wish we have a thing over here called the tall poppy syndrome that means we don't like people to getting to big for their britches so we cut them back down to size you Americans should try sometime the world will thank-you for it.

We don't want to be a super power we have nothing to prove every war we have been there we might be small but we don't need to bombed into doing the right thing.

Answer 9

You just like to insult or are you really that dense.Be glad we have the Aussies with us on some of this. They are allies, and not "pretenders". You are a pretender or just a hateful person.

I think Australia is a great place and if you haven't anything nice to say about someone else' country, then say nothing.

Answer 10

Oh yeah.

Our shrimps are bigger.

Our Barbies are cuter.

Seriously though, you are making the mistake of believing your own demagoguery. The Aussies are a pretty courageous lot, and in general do what they think is right.

But hey, don't take my word for it, walk into an Aussie bar and say: "You're all just a bunch of kiss ups, aren't you?"

Tell me what happens.

;-)