Australians as 'Desconfiados'

The original Aussie settler, comfortable in his suburb is closed and suspicious and in love with his possessions-his car, his house and his boat. He has inherited this attitudes from his Anglo-European forbears in Europe.

Unfortunately they have also influenced migrants from more 'neighbourly' cultures such in Africa and South America with these same attitudes..

Sadly, an African or South American through a process of acculturation in Australia eventually learns to behave like an Aussie in this respect. It is so sad to see it. I've seen Mexicans and Africans who behave in this way after they have been here for ten years.

In Spanish these Aussies would be described as 'desconfiados'.

They not only disinterested in foreigners but are disinterested in each other that is-anyone outside their own little social clique.

They don't know social intimacy and are unable to empathise with those migrants who are lonely.

They tell the world and themselves they are so generous at helping people in less fortunate circumstances in foreign parts while blind to  this homegrown loneliness and misery on their own doorstep.