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Dumb Drunk and Racist - ABC TV
Australians get a bad rap overseas, and our stocks seem especially low in India. In fact, a sizeable chunk of India’s 1.2 billion people think Aussies are dumb, drunk and racist. But doesn’t every country have its negative stereotypes?
In this six-part factual series, journalist Joe Hildebrand takes four Indians on a road trip around Australia to examine our worst stereotypes – are we really beer-swilling, racist bogans, or are we simply misunderstood?
Shot on location in India and across Australia, this series puts its Indian protagonists smack bang in the middle of passionate debates and immersive experiences that could change their opinion of Australia forever. After three weeks of seeing the good, the bad and the ugly up close, will our intrepid Indian travellers still think that Australians are dumb, drunk and racist? And what will we think of ourselves, after seeing Australia through their eyes?
Not a fan of the show.
Hildebrand is obviously chanelling Louis Theroux, but doesn't have anywhere near the charisma.
All the random events that occur are horribly staged, and a lot of the "facts" Hildebrand gives are false (eg Only millionaires can go on a harbour cruise, in Western Sydney poor people have never seen the water.... WTF? The Manly Ferry costs all of $6.80?).
Anyone else seen the show?
Australians get a bad rap overseas, and our stocks seem especially low in India. In fact, a sizeable chunk of India’s 1.2 billion people think Aussies are dumb, drunk and racist. But doesn’t every country have its negative stereotypes?
In this six-part factual series, journalist Joe Hildebrand takes four Indians on a road trip around Australia to examine our worst stereotypes – are we really beer-swilling, racist bogans, or are we simply misunderstood?
Shot on location in India and across Australia, this series puts its Indian protagonists smack bang in the middle of passionate debates and immersive experiences that could change their opinion of Australia forever. After three weeks of seeing the good, the bad and the ugly up close, will our intrepid Indian travellers still think that Australians are dumb, drunk and racist? And what will we think of ourselves, after seeing Australia through their eyes?
Not a fan of the show.
Hildebrand is obviously chanelling Louis Theroux, but doesn't have anywhere near the charisma.
All the random events that occur are horribly staged, and a lot of the "facts" Hildebrand gives are false (eg Only millionaires can go on a harbour cruise, in Western Sydney poor people have never seen the water.... WTF? The Manly Ferry costs all of $6.80?).
Anyone else seen the show?