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Reflective Journal about the culture

of Australia

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Studying, living and working in Australia is the best decision I’ve ever done in my life so

far because it gives me the good opportunity to understand its special cultural characteristics

through many real occasions, circumstances and events in the daily basic. I have done here about

how to communicate with Australian, how to express myself in both social and working

environment and how to find answers on my wonders about the country which I don’t know

before. In advance that I chose Australia as the place to pursue my studying and working dream,

I had researched some aspects about Australian culture through my friends studying in Australia

as well as some literatures or studies about the culture of Australia. As Hofstede’s survey of

cultural dimensions in 64 counties all over the world, including Australia, there are five

dimensions in cultural framework such as power distance, individualism or collectivism,

masculinity versus femininity, uncertainty avoidance; and long – term versus short – term

orientation (Hofstede, 1990). However, I have realized that amongst those five dimensions, it’s

better for me to choose two important ones which are much different from those of Vietnam, my

hometown and Singapore which my family and I spent long time living in. It’s very interesting

when understanding about individualism and power distance in Australian social life and

working life.