#australian culutre

[91vaults]

I've always wondered about what it would be like to be a lifer on Australian soaps ("Home and Away", the now defunct "Neighbors")

On one hand it must be stifling as an actor to play the same soap character for 20+ years,especially since soaps aren't really considered high level entertainment.

On the other hand you've essentially got a stable pay packet for acting for life (and probably a reasonably fat one too) and you don't have to go to Hollywood to continue your career.

I'm sure Alf is raking it in.

#home and away #neighbors #soap opera #soap operas #soaps #Australian tv #australian culutre #australian media #australian soaps #acting #tv #tv shows

[gremlinofuncertainity]

So this piece of work is by an artist that goes by Adnate, in Hosier Lane.

He did thisto represent and empower the aboriginal. This is emphasised by the young boy looking over birrarung marr which is a significant aboriginal site.  The work provides the presence of indigenous culture amongst the modern architecture and in effect claims back a small proportion of the space that was taken from the indigenous inhabitants during colonisation.

#melbourne history #melbourne graffiti #melbourne art #melbourne #graffiti #art #street art #aboriginal culture #indigenous australians #hosier lane #travel #explore #adventure #travel photography #graffiti finds with Lexi #indigenous culutre #aboriginals

[the-cryptographer]

it’s one in the morning and i’m trying to piece together a kind of plausible background for the DOMA crew, and it feels like i’m reinventing the wheel, except very poorly. i feel like I’ve heard Sarajevo/Bosnian war before for amelda, and I feel like that seems like a good answer considering all the people who are much better read in world history and culture than i am that have endorsed it. but i’ve set amelda’s age in canon at around twenty in canon, and set his childhood baggage at near age 8 (as per the parallel with seto), and ygo canon itself as starting around 1997 (as per the original publication date of the manga and several other culutral landmarks in canon). And while i like the choice to go period piece with this canon in of itself, it continues to make my life hell because i have to keep trying to look shit up, trying and failing to prevent  achronological slip-ups. and the Bosnian war definitely does not match up to this timeline so i can’t just steal the headcanons of people who know better than i - fuck you, DeLurk. and this seems like a whole lot of effort for what is just going to be a couple of throwaway lines (well, at least here in this fic. hopefully more of the DOMA crew in the future.) but here i am wondering if Azerbaijan and Armenian descent work well enough? i feel like eastern europe, ottoman influence, or the Caucasus is very broadly the section of the world i want to draw from here. i do have a level of familiarity with Soviet influence in the Caucasus from a Russian language/literature/culture perspective, and it seems to check out in a broad sense - the tanks. although this perspective is definitely one where you’re not sure how accurate the cultural/ethnic information you’re getting is given the fact that Russian language/literature/culture is saturated with a rather intimate racism regarding anyone from “south of the border”, so to speak. ugh. i’m just... sure that this is going to fall apart upon closer inspection for anyone who’s really into these kind of details, but i also feel like i should at least try.

also this is completely ignoring any cultural landmarks we get from the series’s epilogue bc, gdi, you don’t get to throw up pictures of mystery world architecture and then pretend that counts as giving a shit, animation team.

for rafael and valon i’m just going to be obnoxious and go with British and Australian respectively. how very fanon of me. rafael is, of course, some levels of culturally sensitive regarding amelda, but valon is a piece of shit that probably makes jokes at amelda’s expense and i love him. they’re currently all based outside of Melbourne, although how often they spend at base varies. they all rented a house together at some point, but they’ve moved out and on since. they’re still periodically in contact and on friendly terms, but they don’t see each other super regularly. they touch base a couple times a year. also rscs, who is a total bae oc, posited a transman amelda hc. his top does look vaguely binder-ish, which is probably not the best birthplace for a trans headcanon, but the idea has still grown on me like a weed. transman rafael also seems like a pretty swag idea. and they kind of overlap amazingly with the general feeling i got about dartz taking advantage and manipulating these marginalised peoples who had been through these hardships. before, of course, canon ruined it by making dartz responsible for their hardships, but fuck canon. i can decide that later though. it doesn’t really matter here, since jounouchi’s POV. and jounouchi is unlikely to realise something like this about people he doesn’t really give a shit about, and mai is unlikely to tell him.

#excuse me for rambling #if anyone has any ideas they want to respectfully share on this topic that might be cool #the process #Amelda #Rafael #Valon #headcanon parade #save me from this card game hell

[missdragoon]

More unpopular point of view: White rascism.

First, i’m totally, completely, and absolutely against any kind of rascism!

Second, i’m white, worst, i’m european, even worst, i’m swiss. And i see something. When a people of color( how i hate this word, like, there is the white and all the others, ugh.), but when a POC said “I’m proud of my original culture. I practice the traditionnal ritual of my culture, i wear our traditionnal clothes and speak ou traditionnal languages.” it’s all “Aww, you keep your amazing traditionnal culture alive, sooo wonderful and brave!”

But if i said the same thing, people will said i’m an atrocious old white pig against all progress and all. But white people also have traditionnal culture, lots of different langugage, even patois, traditionnal clothes and all. But it’s not a good thing to keep them alive, because our ancestor have brought the “worldwide white culture” everywhere.

Let me tell you something: this “white culture” is the culture of nobody, it just erase all social peculiarity in the name of integration. It erase european, asian, african, american, sud-american, australian, and all culture. It’s racist against everybody, and nobody should be ashamed for keeping the native culutre of his people alive, whaterver is his/her skin color!

Sorry for the eventual mistakes, english isn’t my native languages!

#rascism #white #black #opinion #reverse #unpopular #society