Neighbours

Question 1

Ideas

Answer 1

• Shared human experiences are more important and powerful than differences in nationality and language barriers
• It can take time to accept difference
• Positive Impact of multiculturalism

Question 2

Quotes

Answer 2

• “Before long the young couple realised that the whole neighbourhood knew of the pregnancy … [she] felt flattered, claustrophobic, grateful, peeved.”
• > symbolic of shared humanity
• “It took 6 months for the newcomers to comprehend the fact that their neighbours were not murdering each other, merely talking.”
• “The neighbours seemed cautious of the dog, a docile moulting collie”
• In Australian culture, it is considered as a norm that people keep dogs as pets where as in the european culture…. “
• The sounds of spitting and washing and daybreak watering came as a shock

”- In European culture, work starts very early in the morning and Australians, we normally start work in mid morning 8-10 hence why the couple were shocked.

• “The young man sensed their disapproval at his staying home to write his thesis while his wife worked.”
• In European culture, they hold on to their traditional notions of gender roles where the men go out to work and the women stay home and look after the house/kids.