First off apologise as I am typing this on my phone while walking home from the gym. Gonna fat finger a few words for sure.
Anyway I had a conversation with a coworker today about how my blog was very Perth. Apparently her bf did a blind read and called that I live in Perth. It made me laugh because, while she didn't say it or even imply it strongly, the underlying current was that living in Perth and working in mining isn't experiencing "real Australia". Never mind that Perth is Aus' fourth largest city and mining is a very important industry to the area and country at large economically.
That being said I get it. I have said the same thing to people who visit NYC or Vegas only and form their opinion on the US based on that alone. Is it complete? No. Is it true to what they have experienced? Yes. I would however hope that people realize that they have only seen a very limited part of a bigass country in that case though, much as I try to temper my opinions on that fact that I spend limited time outside WA.
So I guess I should be more conscious of the fact that my observations are Perth centric. My experiences in this country will always be tempered by that. Oh and unnamed coworker if you're reading this feel honored you made it into my oh so amazing blog.
Yeah, FUCK YOU PERTH BOY.
ReplyDeleteWhat does that even mean? The only equivalent I could think of would be if we called someone's blog too NYC or LA. But those are essentially world capitals as well as US landmarks. I don't even know what I'm trying to get at here except it is weird. Also I like how your profile pic is from Iceland. Iceland rules.
It would be more like a blog being too Detroit. Perth isn't very well respected in the rest of Australia and is seen as a backwater that is only relevant because of the mining. The money that mining brings in is also seen as problematic since it tends to result in cashed up bogans or CUBs. It is interesting because the money that WA mining brings into Aus is very economically important, but it is in some ways viewed as a negative by some people over east.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes Iceland was a good time. Maybe do a boys trip to another Scandinavian country before too much longer? I hear Copenhagen is really nice.
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