Australia is the smallest continent but largest country in the world with 23.13 million population. The capital of Australia is Canberra. It is present between the pacific and Indian Ocean and most important countries in the sense of economy and culture site Sydney and Melbourne. Australia’s religion of various individuals is Christianity although there is also big amount of another religion such as Islam, Buddhists and Hindus. The main language of Australian’s is English and life expectancy is nearly 82 years.
Australia Cuisine:
While talking about traditions and culture of Australia how can we forget about the delicious and tasty food of Australia? As the population in Australia is increasing continuously and to meet the food requirements of peoples Australia has adopted the culinary contribution from various countries like British, European and Asians. Many urbane cities of Australia have restaurants for local and international food lovers. Chicken Parmigiana, Pavlova, Meat pies, Grilled kangaroo and hamburger are Australia’s famous food items all over the world.
Arts and Literature:
In Traditions and culture of Australia art and literature has great importance all over the world. Art Gallery of South Australia is the 2nd gallery that has great collection of art in the world are present in Australia. ACCA also has hundreds of exhibitions from Australia. Bushfire, painting by Eugene von Guerard, A love story, painting by Emanuel Phillips Fox are some famous art work of Australia great artist. The type of literature that has both oral and written body structure are first produced by the Australia. Some of the internationally known writers are born in Australia such as David Malouf, Peter Carey, Bradley Trevor Greive, Thomas Keneally, Colleen McCullough, Nevil Shute and Morris West.
Languages in Australia:
The major language that are usually spoken in Australia is English. But the accent and pronunciation is different some peoples used American and some used British accent but the spellings are sometimes different. Australia has sign language known as ‘Auslan’ that are speak by deaf people. Not only English but in Australia peoples also used other languages like Urdu, Punjabi, Hindi, Spanish Italian, Greek but these are used as home languages. In Australia peoples used some slang words like g’day means hello, bloke mean man, Barbie mean barbeque.
Sports in Australia;
Sports in every country has great importance. Sports helps keep peoples physically and mentally fit and health. Cricket, soccer, swimming and basketball are some of the famous sports of Australia. Cricket team of Australia also called as ‘kangaroo’s’. Australia has a great name in the world for hosting international sports events and world championships
Facts and etiquettes;
There are many facts and etiquette in the traditions and culture of Australia.
- greeting in Australia should be very casual and relaxed not very formal.
- it is culture in Australia to shake hands and smile than introduce yourself on your first meetings.
- it is culture in Australia to exchange gifts with family, friends and classmates on special occasion like Christmas.
- if someone invited to his home then taking a bottle of wine or chocolate box seems polite and cultures.
- being late in Australia seems impolite so one should be punctual.
Fashion in Australia;
The dresses peoples wear is different for different situations and occasion like beach, surfing and swimming, the women’s wear is a combination of Indonesians, fujis and Indian Punjabi shirts. Men wears loose and long sleeved shirts and use hats from sun protection.
