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I have family in the US and Canada and have visited many times and feel i've got valid observations about all this. Not so much the changing nature (I haven't properly seen that filter through yet, but going more by things like infields and posts various people make about their interactions that don't line up with how i'd imagine them going 5 years ago and sound more like here!) - but more how traditionally different things were. On my visits to the US for example i've always been flabbergasted at how friendly people are with each other and how strangers just talk! At the bus stop...the supermarket...guys go to bars and talk all night about the football with complete strangers etc. Nothing like Australia.
I feel like Australia isn't actually 'leading' anything - it's more that the AUS has always had a very different culture when it comes to talking to strangers. 'Stranger danger!' was always heavily pushed and probably contributed, along with other cultural reason pre-dating that and a natrual reservedness etc. And now that so much communication is online and most average girls are treated like celebrities it encourages a certain 'closed off' vibe and so over time, America and other previously social places are starting to slowly behave more like Australia when it comes to social interaction.
I have to admit I dont really care much for chatting to strangers myself so Im guilty of perpetuating this myself. Ill sit around with my mates all night drinking, laughing and chatting about random ****, but if a stranger tried to talk to me (unless they are an attractive girl I want to bang)- im just not really interested in anything they have to say quite frankly. But on my side its not related to any kind of fear of stranger danger, more just disinterest- unless I have some sort of common ground with that person which we can begin to form a relationship over I just dont really see what value I get from interacting with them?
I feel like Australia isn't actually 'leading' anything - it's more that the AUS has always had a very different culture when it comes to talking to strangers. 'Stranger danger!' was always heavily pushed and probably contributed, along with other cultural reason pre-dating that and a natrual reservedness etc. And now that so much communication is online and most average girls are treated like celebrities it encourages a certain 'closed off' vibe and so over time, America and other previously social places are starting to slowly behave more like Australia when it comes to social interaction.
I have to admit I dont really care much for chatting to strangers myself so Im guilty of perpetuating this myself. Ill sit around with my mates all night drinking, laughing and chatting about random ****, but if a stranger tried to talk to me (unless they are an attractive girl I want to bang)- im just not really interested in anything they have to say quite frankly. But on my side its not related to any kind of fear of stranger danger, more just disinterest- unless I have some sort of common ground with that person which we can begin to form a relationship over I just dont really see what value I get from interacting with them?