How is Australia similar to Asia?

Answer 1

Other than the basics like...

Japan is islands...Australia is islands

Japan has people...Australia has people

Japan has cars...Australia has cars

and so on and so forth.

That is dum!!!!!

I like to tell people (especially my Australian family when they come to visit) everything in Japan is done for a different reason. You may see Japanese people eating or walking or shopping and feel 'ahh I can understand that' but you can't!!! Everything Japanese do they do for a different reason to Australians.

Japanese think they respect families more than westerners because they live together but most husbands don't have anything to do with the birth of their own child - the wife goes away for 1-6 months after the baby is born and daddy sees him maybe once a fortnight over that time. Mum doesn't really do much with the baby either grandma does it. The family unit here doesn't include dad he sleeps in a separate bed or even room, eats his meals at different times and mostly comes home after the children are asleep and that's how he cares about his family. He often even holidays separately.

Japanese think they are more considerate than westerners because they follow the rules. Yet they break just as many as us, just different ones and everyone breaks those ones so it's ok, but because we break different ones, they can't see that as the same thing. No-one here stops for pedestrians at the zebra crossing when driving. Most people don't give up their seats for disabled, pregnant or elderly people even when they are sitting in special designated seats. Japanese people will let doors slam in your face, press the close door button on the elevator on people - even babies!!!

Japanese people think westerners are noisy because we talk loud in situations where they wouldn't talk at all, eg on the train or in a cafe. Yet everyday trucks with loudspeakers drive past my house with advertisements for cooked yams, gyoza, oil, asking for my secondhand stuff to recycle. And don't get me started on the noise during the elections when I had a newborn. I was about ready to go out there and break their damn loudspeakers off their trucks. Oh and pachinco parlours, and stores like yodobashi camera and supermarkets...so damn noisy. People yelling at you from every damn direction.

A lot of Japanese can't understand why we do things differently either, which I think is unlike Aussies. For my part when I explain the reasons behind things to my family they may or may not agree but they realise that the reasons behind it are different to their own. However my prime example of Japanese refusing to understand is the woman who repeatedly told me Australians are lazy. Her reason was that unlike good Japanese housewives who take advantage of the weather and have to deal with a lack of space and therefore do their washing daily if not more often. Australian housewives wait until the machine is full before 'bothering' to do it.

Now this woman stayed in Brisbane, during level 4 water restrictions. She even registered that there were water restrictions because she was telling me that her host family couldn't water the garden and timed their showers. But I could not make it clear to her that the washing situation was part of the same problem, that washing machines use a lot of water and that was the reason they didn't 'bother' to wash the clothes so frequently.

In every way shape and form we are very different countries. We are proud of different things, we want totally different things out of life. The way we raise our children is different, the traits we respect in others are different, even the way we view those traits are different. The education system is different. The system itself is different. On the surface you can sometimes find things that are the same, but scratch a little deeper and you'll find that through mistranslation and conceptual differences even those similarities are in fact worlds apart.

Answer 2

-Heavily urbanised -Subways/trains etc -Very business-based -MacDonalds -Coke/Fanta/etc -So many American influences/Westernisation -All Japanese students are required to learn AMERICAN english. It's specific. Can't even say the word 'biscuit' in front of them, they only understand 'cookie' lol.

Answer 3

They-

Both drive on the left-hand side of the road

Both are parliamentary constitutional monarchies

Both are first-world countries

You are dum!!!!!!!!!!!!!

haha, you spelt dumb wrong.^^

Answer 4

The population of Japan is more than 10 times the population of Australia. Japan has 127,927,000 million (2006) people living in their country, whereas in Australia there are 19,913,144 million (2004) people. The land size of Japan is smaller than Australia, which is why the streets of Japan are full of busy people. Japan's land size is 377,829km whereas Australia's land size is 7,682,300. In Japan the density per square kilometre is 339km whereas in Australia it is 2.5km.

Answer 5

Australia and Asia are similar in the way that they are both located in the eastern hemisphere. They are also similar because they are both continents.
They are both continents.