TikTokker Eloise Juliet sparks debate with claims Australians are ‘emotionally stunted’
A British woman has sparked intense debate after taking to social media to discuss her observations since moving to Australia three months ago.
Eloise Juliet posted a TikTok about “a very Australia-specific issue” she has noticed while living Down Under.
“I feel like I have some takes on living in Australia that honestly, I haven’t really heard talked about on the Internet before,” she began.
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By continuing you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy.“Australians have a very weird and complicated relationship with emotions.
“It ties into misogyny, it ties into men acting very strangely towards women; AKA just not knowing how to deal with them at all, or treating them like objects.
“It’s just a lot worse here.”
She went on to say there was an “oppressive, strange sensation in the air” in Australia.
“There’s this weird oppressive strange sensation in the air where you can feel, ‘I’m not supposed to really share anything genuinely authentic about how I’m feeling’.
“There’s this sense that if you do so you are not safe and it will not be well received because people here don’t know how to receive it.”
Ms Juliet gave an example of a common interaction that seemed to play out differently Down Under, compared to back home.
“If you say, ‘Do you know what, I’m actually not doing too well’, they get this like panic behind their eyes,” she said.
“They don’t want the real answer, they don’t want to know and it just creates this culture of emotionally-stunted people.
“It’s why everyone here is just so much more immature than anyone else I’ve ever come across in the rest of the world.”
Her observations were met with mixed reactions on TikTok.
“In Australia ‘How you going’ or ‘How are ya’ just means hello. We aren’t actually asking how you are. So it’s like someone saying ‘hello’ and you just spill out your emotions. People find that a weird way to respond to hello. Hope that helps,” one user explained.
Another person asserted, “As an Australian. Hard disagree. Think you’ve just been hanging around the wrong crowd”.
“This is something I’ve been quietly preaching for A LONG TIME. i crave emotional connection and intellectual conversation. but here, it feels like it’s genuinely not on anyone’s radar…” a third person wrote.
Originally published on PerthNow
