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Australian Aboriginal Customs

Customs Australia's cities are modern, and because the government promotes the planting of flowers and grasses and the protection of the environment, each city is built like a garden. Some Aborigines prefer to live in squalid wooden huts rather than government housing. Australians dress in the same way as Western Europeans, in suits. Aborigines also dress like Western Europeans, except that their clothes are rarely washed and look dirty. Other Aborigines are naked or wear a cloth around their waist to cover them. Some wore arm rings, collars, forehead hoops and bone nose pins. They also paint their bodies in various colors during festivals. Australians generally like to eat beef, mutton, chicken, duck, eggs and game. Dishes should be light, pay attention to the pattern, do not eat spicy, quite interested in Chinese food. Love to eat a variety of fried eggs, scrambled eggs, cold cuts, ham, shrimp, fish, tomatoes and so on. Western food like to eat creamy grilled fish, fried prawns, assorted platters, roasted tomatoes and so on. Taboos ======================================================================== Australia is a country made up of various ethnic groups from all over the world, and it fully demonstrates its richness and diversity in culture and art. On the one hand, it is reflected in Aboriginal paintings, literature and music, and on the other hand, it is also expressed in traditional Western art, literature, modern dance, film, opera and theater, and the Asia-Pacific region is also an important factor influencing the Australian culture, therefore, Australian works in its content and style often blend the characteristics of Australia and other countries in one, which fully reflects the influence of multiculturalism.

As a member of the Australian Cultural Council, the Australian Cultural Council is a major influence on Australian culture.

As a multi-ethnic country, the value of Aboriginal culture is becoming more and more familiar to people, the history of Australia's Aboriginal culture can be traced back to 20,000 years ago, the Aboriginal people have a wealth of oral traditions, and there are primitive dances related to the sacrifice, but the most prominent is still the paintings, the paintings of Aboriginal people to record the history of the continuation of the culture of an important means of Aboriginal paintings of the contents of the dream for the permanent theme, mainly depicting a variety of myths and legends. Theme, mainly depicting a variety of myths and legends and indigenous customs and living conditions, the form of indigenous paintings are mainly stone wall paintings, bark paintings and sandstone paintings, the color is mostly taken from the brown, white two colors.

Australian cinema has a great influence in the world, often winning the world's film awards, and has sent a lot of talented people to Hollywood. Opera is in a sense a typical Australian art form, although it originated in Italy, but the Australians have given it extraordinary enthusiasm and new connotations, from Nellie Melba to Joan Sasser. From Dame Melba to Dame Joan Sutherland, Australia has produced such outstanding female opera singers for the world.

Australia's literature is internationally renowned, and Aboriginal and migrant writers from overseas have added a new dimension, with Australian literature now reflecting a growing familiarity with the significance of the cultures of the Asia-Pacific region, and the importance of the common interests of the countries of the region. Australians enjoy concerts, Australia has eight major professional symphony orchestras, in terms of popular music, Australia is fourth in the world in terms of the number of pieces offered by English-speaking countries, the export of Australian rock music is growing, and Australia's arts and culture is a huge industry, employing 336,000 people and generating A$13 billion in value each year.

Australians also enjoy attending theater performances and fine art exhibitions, and are among the world's largest purchasers of magazines and books, if calculated on a per capita basis. The most important cultural collections are the National Gallery of Australia, the National Library of Australia, the National Museum of Australia, the National Film and Sound Archive, the National Science and Technology Center, the Australian War Memorial and the National Maritime Museum, etc. More than 1,300 museums have collected and preserved Australia's cultural heritage, and the Sydney Opera House is perhaps Australia's most distinctive urban landmark

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