Topic 2: Australian Identity Across Genres

Question 1

What is identity?

Answer 1

The fact of being who or what a person or thing is

Question 2

What does it mean to be Australian?

Answer 2

Living on the land, sports/AFL, native Aboriginal culture, accent, traditional customs, citizenship, flag, hot climate, slang, food, animals that are out to get us, freedom, rights, voting, diverse/multicultural, part of the commonwealth

Question 3

Stereotypes of the typical Australian:

Answer 3

Not very smart, violent, laid back, crude, bush oriented, strong/brave, alcohol transfixed

Question 4

What is colonialism?

Answer 4

The policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically

Question 5

Mateship:

Answer 5

Human relationships, sticking together for survival, usually between males, can be inclusive or exclusive

Question 6

Aussie larrikan:

Answer 6

Mocks authority, doesn’t go along with societal norms

Question 7

Aussie battler:

Answer 7

Underdog pitted against society, struggling for survival, great determination

Question 8

Victory in defeat:

Answer 8

Protagonist as victim, relates to harsh Aussie climate

Question 9

Country towns:

Answer 9

All bad in Aussie culture, racist, sexist, homophobic, violent, male dominated

Question 10

Suburbia:

Answer 10

Personal, positive place
OR
Dysfunctional place of unemployment, dull, conformist, escaped from

Question 11

Multiculturalism:

Answer 11

Immigrants, assimilation, nonwhite people to be ‘dealt with’

Question 12

Aboriginal culture:

Answer 12

Aboriginal absence, culture, assimilation, romantic figures/mystical powers

Question 13

Outback landscape:

Answer 13

Paradise: people reach full potential, purity/honesty not found in city, build relationships with nature and others
Hostile: emptiness in outback, opponent, unknowable, terror, powering/supernatural being in bush