Can any Aussies out there confirm this?
[Warning: Two S-bombs]
Here's the rest of that post from Elijah Schaffer:
It's called Tall Poppy Syndrome & if they don't think you deserve success, they'll sabotage you to ruin your life. I've seen it out here a lot, it's so common people just act like it's normal [.]
Even Aussies abroad often are involved in extremely toxic work behavior of slander, lawsuits etc - poor guy is getting the good ol' aussie [sic] treatment [.]
Chill people until you meet the wrong ones. That's why Americans are so successful. We don't punish people who are trying to get ahead, we team up with them and try to join in on the pursuit of success [.]
I don't get why people here are like that. Even if you talk about an accomplishment, they often talk s*** behind your back & rip you apart. Lots of back stabbers. Google it, it's genuinely a cultural epidemic & causes so much avoidable drama [.]
People in the comments seemed to agree:
Bro.
How did I never know this about Australia?? I feel like watching too many Bluey episodes has clouded my judgement.
I guess King Solomon called it 3,000 years ago:
I saw that all labor and all skillful work is due to one person's jealousy of another.
My Chinese students used to tell me a proverb that the tallest "nail" is the first to get hammered down.
Americans, we don't even realize how historically exceptional our country has been up until this point. We've got our own problems and our own jealousies, but dang if it hasn't been the place where dreams came true and we worked with our neighbors to make a better world.
Now the wokies want to make it another nation full of "Tall Poppy Syndrome." Don't let them!
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