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Trying to Mingle Gabriel Ricci    Australian citizens are becoming quite annoyed and frustrated. Australia has been lost in translation, as some people would say. Slowly, we are beginning to comprehend that our Stereotypical image, given off by music and movies such as ‘Crocodile Dundee’, are beginning to be seen as the actual face of our great country. There have been quite a few examples of this in recent times. We will show you a few.

Last Saturday, in Perth’s international airport, an Indian man by the name of Mohammed attempted to enter the country with slabs of beer and full bottles of Jim Bean. He walked through the gate wearing shorts and thongs.

The Indian man believed that if he entered the country with alcohol and the same clothing attire, he would immediately be acknowledged as a fully fledged Aussie. He walked in speaking Aussie slang and constantly saying “g’day mate” until it became quite annoying. This attracted the attention of the surrounding people.

“He wouldn’t stop saying Australian slang words” said a local.

“It was so funny because he kept on acting like a fool” said another.

Some people, however, were becoming to get quite offended with the man because of how he believes that all that Australia is is a beer drinking, short wearing country. Many people said quite rude words to him, but no one thinks he quite understood it.

Most of the time, Australians are fine with being stereotypically seen as a relaxed country, but this particular man was taking it a bit too far, and was beginning to frustrate the people around him, realising that this man wasn’t really joking around. He actually thought that this is what Australia is about.

After a short amount of time, security finally calmed him down and slowly told him how silly he looked and how inappropriate he was dressed and acting.

Even though Mohamed was told about how his peculiar acting was inappropriate, he obviously didn’t listen, because later that day, he was spotted again trying to mingle in at the local pub. He was seen with lots of VBs and was seen to be drinking nothing else. However, he was fairly confused when he saw no one else drinking the same beverage. He truly believed that VB was THE Australian drink. When questioned, locals were amused at the man. This is what they had to say.

“It was priceless”, one said. “You should’ve seen his face when he saw he was the only one drinking that VB.”

Another replied, “I kinda felt sorry for the man, but I couldn’t help but laugh.”

However, this was not the only incident recorded. We have also been told that there has been another case.

Two months ago, there had been a similar case, except this particular man had watched 'Crocodile Dundee' one too many times. The second he walked into this country, there had been a strange atmosphere around the man. See, he was an African man wearing a leather hat, work boots and a leather jacket with tassels. Exactly like Paul Hogan.

The one main difference between this man and the other case is that this man wasn't shouting and yelling stereotypical Aussie catch phrases. He was, however, walking around with a fairly large hunting knife on his side.

As you could understand, this was fairly intimidating, especially when the man was walking around saying: “This is a knife!” Once again, another example of a confused man believing that was an accepted Aussie, and tried to 'join in' with our society.

However, that incident ended as quickly as it started, as the airport security quickly swiped up the man and explained some things to him, including the law about weapons in public.

“The man had no idea”, replied the officer. “He really thought that he could become an Australian if he dressed up as Paul Hogan in 'Crocodile Dundee'.”

Another witness replied: “It really was quite funny seeing that man dressed as Mr Dundee. If I had my camera, that would have gone on the internet for sure!”

However, funnily enough, we searched for a clip of the man on the popular site called YouTube, and notice that it had already been viewed 10 000 times, and it had only been on for two hours. If that African man was planning on getting noticed, he sure succeeded in his mission. However, we believe that he was just trying to become an Australian citizen by viewing our stereotypes.

So, after extensive research and viewing old footage, we arrived the conclusion that people are just getting it wrong. People who have no knowledge of how society works think that you can just become 'one of them' by looking and acting like them. It just doesn't work like that.