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Student Lounge International Students
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<p>Ok, Australia!</p>

<p>We do not:
- Have kangaroos hopping around the neighborhood or
- Use kangaroos instead of cars
- All act or sound like the Crocodile Hunter
- Have many African-Americans (maybe 1 in 10000)
- Live in the desert
- Go to the beach 24/7 and have barbies 24/7
- Sydney is not the capital city -- it is Canberra!!</p>

<p>We are/do:
- Not all fat
- Have a small island called Tasmania that is a state of Aus. & is located @ the bottom right-hand corner of the country.
- Have cities that are modern & teeming with life
- Very very multicultural
- Up to date w/ International news & entertainment (despite the geographic isolation)</p>

<p>Aussie AUssie Aussie! Oi Oi Oi!</p>

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<p>We're australian. Who gives a **** what anyone else thinks of us</p>

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<p>I haven't met an American yet that doesn't like Australians - even if they've never met one. I've liked most of the Aussies I've met. </p>

<p>A colleague of mine in a Sydney suburb did say he spotted a Koala in his backyard.</p>

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<p>I'm from Italy. </p>

<p>You might have heard that our country is full of corrupt civil servants. THAT'S TRUE!</p>

<p>You might have heard that we don't copulate enough and we're close to let all immigrants take over the nation. THAT'S TRUE! (but not as true as France, whose Min. Interior is a Hungarian) </p>

<p>You might have heard of our mafioso "family values" - which are reflected in our U.S. descendants - which are, in the end, only good excuses we can modify whenever we want (see Mussolini WWII, Berlusconi, etc.).
(Wisdom of Saint Machiavelli)</p>

<p>Furthermore, our politicians have a great sense of humor...
<a href="http://www.cyberium.net/imagine/X/berlusconi-napoleone-2.jpg%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.cyberium.net/imagine/X/berlusconi-napoleone-2.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>And then, you might also have heard that all women coming from the 7 continents to study "fine arts" in Italy actually come here only to be stolen by the heart of us natural seducers. THAT'S TRUE (+ we don't need all those American self-growth books! Damn, my uncle from U.S. sends me stuff like "How to be yourself in 24 hours" and "How to Seduce Women Quickly" and "How to use Google to do your homework" all the time! I mean: are you so busy that you can't figure it out yourselves :P ?)</p>

<p>You might have heard that the whole economy is concentrated in Milan, whereas the rest ("the South") is only culture, fine arts and yadayada. </p>

<p>We're also famous for striking whenever we want to obtain something from the government. And it usually works :P</p>

<p>Recently, people around the world actually learned where Italy is only because of the great pop mayhem about Leonardo Da Vinci's private life >_>
FOLKS, all Italians speak in code and symbolic language :P
Whatever we say or write, it actually means something else (especially when said by politicians... but that is something all countries have in common).</p>

<p>But Italy has many positive traits, too...</p>

<p><em>thinking</em></p>

<p>Well, Milan is the capital of all fashion!
Rome was the capital of an Empire - at it's time much more influential than the U.S.!
We have authentic castles and old buildings :P
We make REAL pizza, and not that focaccione al pomodoro you have in american Pizza Huts :P
We integrate with our immigrants (and not the opposite).
It was in Bellagio that Star Wars Episode I characters married!</p>

<p>We are the cradle of all western culture LOL</p>

<p>And remember: we're the WORLD CHAMPIONS 2006!!!
(Materazzi rulez)</p>

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<p>speaking of world cup, (i noticed you forgot the word cup) it was quite a disgusting game to watch. funny how the france president (or prime minister, idk) cherished him as one great man.</p>

<p>and, speaking of italy, are there actually hot men trying to lure any and every woman constantly?</p>

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<p>Yeah, to be honest I always considered Zizou to be a mature person... but who knows what will happen now.</p>

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and, speaking of italy, are there actually hot men trying to lure any and every woman constantly?

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<p>No, it's the women who come to them ;)</p>

<p>To be serious and honest, I don't know. It's difficult to judge whether they're "hot" and "trying". They live their life spontaneously and things just happen more naturally I think.
They don't consciously aim at seducing any and every woman constantly. It simply "happens".</p>

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<p>"They don't consciously aim at seducing any and every woman constantly. It simply "happens"." </p>

<p>o what glory of a world for single hormone-raging young men and women ;)</p>

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Made a small addition.. hope you dont mind!</p>

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<p>Whoever said "I'll take America's health care over any in the world, especially any country with a population approaching that of the USA," must be seriously troubled. </p>

<p>When I was in Missouri, I had to pay $200 for a shot. Are you serious? OK, my case is special, I didn't have a SS number or w/e but I met many uninsured people at school, who were sick as hell and showed up anyway because they didn't want to pay $80 the consultation plus the medicine.</p>

<p>PS: The word for higher class is "bourgeoisie." Marx's definition is outdated. Today the word points to the social and intellectual elite, who aren't that loaded anymore.</p>

<p>PS2: About the World Cup game, Zidane was totally right to hit the Italian.</p>

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PS2: About the World Cup game, Zidane was totally right to hit the Italian.

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<p>"Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo?"
- Gandalf</p>

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<p>I'm from Belgium. There indeed is made the best beer, chocolate and "french" fries in the world. We have a world-known statue of a peeing boy, which we are very proud of. Along with Germany, we have the richest student culture in the world. Bruxelles/Brussels is the European Union's capital and we're a bilingual country, much more than Canada will ever be. We have won more Fields medals and Nobel prizes as the United States, with regard to the population. We co-invented the Web and the Big Bang theory was devised by a Belgian physicist.</p>

<p>Oh, we're also one of the rainiest places on earth. Waw.</p>

<p>I usually regard those who are proud of their country as idiots unable to understand that the country one was born in is a totally random matter, and that, generally speaking, one has no influence on his country as an individual : i.e. one cannot be accounted for his country's achievements or failures.</p>

<p>Be proud of what YOU have done, not what your parents and fellow citizens have.</p>

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<p>Hey maxcanada - Im sure u have had them before, but have u had pon frijts (spelling is probably off)? Those things are crazy good, especially if u get the right sauce to dip them in. Im asking because I think they originated in Belgium.</p>

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<p>Pomme Frites.</p>

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<p>I guess that you mean potato fries (frites ; frietten). The first potato fries were made around the end of the 17th century in Namur (Namen), Belgium.</p>

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<p>I'm from Egypt. We have more than just the pyramids and sphinx. And the population is rapidly approaching the 80 million mark :(</p>

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<p>Egypt WHOA.
Is it really hot there all year long?</p>

<p>I admit i know pracitcally nothing about the country except you know, pyramids and mummies.:( what I'm saying is, can you write a short paragraph like the one maxcanada wrote on things OTHER than say, pyramids and mummies? :)</p>

<p>thanks loads</p>

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<p>Mmmmm Italy. I wish I could visit there again. Rome is so beautiful. </p>

<p>I visited Venice four years ago and LOVED it. LOVED it.
Its environment is just so beautiful and pacifying. oh and it's got the BEST gelato/ice-cream in the WORLD. Those ice-cream sellers are so nice and give you huge amount of delicious icecream while charging something like one euro as opposed to those cheapos who run gelato shops in Paris. Paris is nice too, but everything there is SO EXPENSIVE.</p>

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Egypt WHOA.
Is it really hot there all year long?</p>

<p>I admit i know pracitcally nothing about the country except you know, pyramids and mummies. what I'm saying is, can you write a short paragraph like the one maxcanada wrote on things OTHER than say, pyramids and mummies? </p>

<p>thanks loads

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<p>sure.</p>

<p>Um...it's horribly cold in the winter (but never bellow zero thank God)
other than the pyramids: there are hundreds of pyramids along the west side of the nile, near the south (Luxor and Aswan to be exact) there are really huge temples and stuff and a few souks/markets (i hate those). There are several red sea resorts like Hurgada and Sharm Al Sheikh (which I'll be going to in a few days). Also alot of resorts by the meditteranian near Alexandria (where I live). Alexandria had the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (i.e Alexandria Library; the second largest in the world with a planitarium and exhibits of diff kinds. Cairo has 18 million people and I hate goign there becasue of the traffic. The Museum has a ****load of mummies and gold and alot of stuuf the dead mummies had before they croaked thousands of years ago. there's also the cairo tower (but i didn't like it much).
Um.. that's it i guess. hope it's not too long</p>

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<p>Is it humid there? Is there a desert in the country?</p>

<p>lol I sound stupid</p>

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<p>yeah, really humid in the summer (100+ degrees) it is 99% desert.</p>

<p>if you have any specific questions you can PM and I'll be glad to answer :)</p>