My name is Jan and I would call myself an interested observer of people and life. I have been very fortunate in my life and have travelled more than the average person both around Australia and internationally and have been fortunate enough to live in three other countries for extended periods.
Australia is a country with a big land mass and a considerably smaller area of ‘prime’ real estate. Prime real estate being arable and fertile land with good annual rainfall. Water is one Australia’s biggest problems and it is not set to improve any time soon. We don’t have a big population compared to our land mass area because so much of Australia’s land mass is not suitable for sustainable habitation.
Australians are a small multi-cultural nation where people are friendly and socialise. By socialise, we mean they acknowledge each others presence by talking or smiling when they meet.
Americans on the other hand, have a similar sized land mass, two hundred million plus more people than Australia, and are a very unfriendly and unsociable community until they have met you and then their demeanor is indeed very friendly. This is their survival mechanism because they live in a big population.
People living in small populations and large populations have different socialising manners, but they share the same human need to be acknowledged, and to feel connected with those around them.
The first point of connecting with those around you is with spoken language associated with the body language accompanying those words.
Unless a person can enunciate precisely what they think or feel through language, they will feel great frustration which can turn to anger if they are not self-disciplined. Anger leads to violence, violence to disruptive behaviour and eventually to anarchy.
Body language that does not match the spoken word will always over-rule the words spoken. This comes down to survival and the ‘fight or flight’ gene embedded in everyone’s genetic coding as a self-preserving survival mechanism.
On the other hand, all people living in big or small populations like to be shown acknowledgement, consideration, kindness, respect and friendliness.
Learning how to socialise is here to assist, guide, answer questions, observe and just purely to communicate with those who visit or join us here.
We adore social butterflies and encourage them to breed amongst us at will and then to flutter-forth and connect with others through spoken and unspoken language.
The language all people on Earth share.