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Were Argentina and Uruguay as popular in the public imagination of Continental Europe (esp. France, Italy, and Spain) as Australia and New Zealand were in the British Isles public imagination?
Is the latter attitude also why Australia and New Zealand but not South Africa or South America (also in the Southern Hemisphere) are called "Down Under"?
NZ and Australia are a popular immigration destination for alot of Chileans, Argentines and Uruguayans nowadays.....especially Chile. ALOT of Chileans have immigrated there. There's a considerable amount, or was at one time...of immigration from the southern cone countries of SA over there.
When my argentine wife was a young girl, hert family considered immigration to NZ and was very serious about it at one point.
Personally I don't think the term "Down Under" was all that popular until the famous song of the same name came out in the early 1980's, I could be wrong however.
Australia has a certain cashe to it because it's so far away from everything. It seems like an exotic land of weird animals and beautiful natural landscapes. A developed country with good standards of living, but sparsely populated, which IMO is not a bad thing. I remember when I first landed in Sydney I was just looking out my plane window as we're taxi-ing up to the gate, like "I'm actually here... this weird landmass so far removed from everything, how cool is this?" lol, so childish of me but then again I was like 16 at the time, but I even remember how the air smelled when I got outside....
Australia has a certain cashe to it because it's so far away from everything. It seems like an exotic land of weird animals and beautiful natural landscapes. A developed country with good standards of living, but sparsely populated, which IMO is not a bad thing. I remember when I first landed in Sydney I was just looking out my plane window as we're taxi-ing up to the gate, like "I'm actually here... this weird landmass so far removed from everything, how cool is this?" lol, so childish of me but then again I was like 16 at the time, but I even remember how the air smelled when I got outside....
Hope to get back downunder one day for sure.
Then when we go to asia, europe, north america etc we go "oh, so that's where everything else is!"
In seriousness, flights are a pain because the closest place is NZ (which isn't a bad thing), then places like Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore are 6-8 hour flights, and some places in Europe are 24 hour flights with stopovers
You might be surprised again,,. You fly from Jakarta to Papua / Irian Jaya ( Indonesia ) have the same time you fly from Jakarta to korea/seoul..sometimes the image map can fool, the islands look very close but the reality is very far away.
You might be surprised again,,. You fly from Jakarta to Papua / Irian Jaya ( Indonesia ) have the same time you fly from Jakarta to korea/seoul..sometimes the image map can fool, the islands look very close but the reality is very far away.
Flight from Jakarta, Java to Jayapura, Papua is almost 2 hours shorter than Jakarta-Seoul.
Flight from Jakarta, Java to Jayapura, Papua is almost 2 hours shorter than Jakarta-Seoul.
6 hours to fly from Jakarta / Java to Jayapura, Papua ( have the same time to fly korea)
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