Australia is a recently developed country that thrives on global trade. Globalization 1.0 was extremely prevalent in Australia as it connected with China and Great Britain to become involved in world trade. Australia has always had a great dependence on its ability to be involved in world trade. Richard Florida’s article on how the world appears to be spiky, is based on the amount of economic activity that is generated from city to city. The basis for measuring an economic spike is light emissions, patents, and population (2-4). Urbanization has been the main factor of determining central economic activity centers. 
At Bondi Beach I found it hard to distinguish between native Australians and the many tourists there were in Sydney. People of all ages and cultures were at Bondi Beach the same day as us. The main age range was between twenty and forty, but there were also families with children and older people too. Many different were represented such as Asian cultures, European or white people (for instances, the ones we met from Norway), and a few Middle Eastern people too. The nationalities that I saw lacked from Sydney were mainly African and Hispanic cultures. There were maybe a few of each, but of the thousands of people on the beach that day, they were not equally represented. In the chapters from Sharp’s book, The Typical Australian, the Australian culture is represented in different ways according to influencing cultures. I honestly could not pick out an Australian from an American in appearance. The only give-away for me is the accent. From the eyes of a European, Australians seem “barbaric, loud-mouthed, ignorant, and uncultured” (Sharp, 10). Some Australians do demonstrate these aspects while many others do not.
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