What do Australians look like?

Answer 1

The stereotypical Australian for males are strong, white/tanned, brown hair and a beach body. For females it is attractive, white/tanned and blond. This is not all true though. Since Australia is a multicultural country there are many European Australians or Asian Australians.

Answer 2

There is no single way to describe Australia. Almost every possible climatic condition and landscape type can be experienced on the continent. Australia's own writers have attempted to describe the sparkling blue sea, the tree-filled bush, the tropical rainforests and the wide open plains of the outback.

Perhaps the best description of Australia can be seen in that given by one of its own poets, Dorothea Mackellar, in her poem "My Country" as "a sunburnt country; a land of sweeping plains; of ragged mountain ranges; of drought and flooding plains". She also goes on to describe far horizons; jewel sea and wide brown land.

Mackellar describes the range of scenery with stark accuracy. She also talks of:

stark white ring-barked forest

All tragic to the moon,

The sapphire-misted mountains,

The hot gold hush of noon.

Green tangle of the brushes,

Where lithe lianas coil,

And orchids deck the tree-tops

And ferns the warm dark soil

The fact that it is a heat-baked and unrelenting country is also reflected in the following verse:

Core of my heart, my country!

Her pitiless blue sky,

When sick at heart, around us,

We see the cattle die -

But then the grey clouds gather,

And we can bless again

The drumming of an army,

The steady, soaking rain.

Australia is a continent which includes almost every type of ecosystem except Extreme Alpine (like the Himalayas and the highest Alps). This means what it looks like depends on where you happen to be. It has mountains as high as 2228m on its mainland, it has foothills, deserts, forests, bushland, marshes and wetlands, plains and grasslands, coastal dunes, etc.

Answer 3

Most Australians have a head with two ears, two eyes, which can be of different colours like blue and brown most commonly. The head also has one nose and a mouth. All heads have a brain inside them, some brains are used on occasions, some are not. The head often has hair of different colours sticking out of it, some natural colours such as brown, black, blonde, red and even grey, some have artificial colours such as blue, pink, green and blonde, other heads have not much hair at all. The head is stuck to the torso via a neck at the shoulders. An arm sticks out from the shoulders on each side of the body and on the end of each arm is a hand with four fingers and an opposable thumb. The arm can bend in the middle at a joint called the elbow, and the hand can bend on the end of the arm at the wrist. The torso contains most of the internal organs, but some peoples internal organs take up a lot more space than other people's internal organs. The torso is connected to two legs at the hips, one on each side. The legs can bend in the middle at the knee. Each leg extends down, via yet another fabulous joint called the ankle, to a foot, each one having five toes usually. A combination of movements of the feet and legs enables us to propel ourselves along in any direction. Aren't Australians just fantastic creatures? Australians are then divided into two categories, male and female, but there is occasionally some confusion in this area. The differences are usually fairly obvious and are pretty much the same all over the world, as far as I can tell.

Answer 4

Considering we have such a vast range of multi cultural background from Europe and Asia, we don't have one specific race nor any generic names or appearances however, there are few characteristics that seem to be known as "Australian characteristics" while we appear to be stereotyped as (men) fat, medium height, brown hair and (women) either pretty or very unattractive and almost always medium height we are in fact just like many other races on the planet.

The "stereotypical" Australian could be considered to be sun-tanned and bronzed from a busy outdoors life. People from the outback and the bush are people who work on the land: they are tanned and strong, often with skin that might be on the leathery side from their years of working hard in the sun. City folk may be tanned from their beachside holidays. But this is by no means a hard-and-fast rule. Other people can be quite pale of skin, or they may be overweight from the lack of an outdoors lifestyle.

Answer 5

like humans