American basketballer Andrew Robinson has revealed the one thing that baffled him about Australians, and left him wondering whether they were being \u201cpassive-aggressive\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The basketball forward, 28, who is originally from Maryland, moved to Melbourne in 2024 to play for the Bendigo Braves, before signing with the Ballarat Miners.<\/p>\n
After living in the country for one year, Robinson revealed in an Instagram video that he had noticed two words that Aussies \u201cnever say\u201d, and how it left him confused for \u201cso long\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the first things that I had to adjust to when I came to Australia was the fact that Australians don\u2019t say \u2018you\u2019re welcome\u2019,” began Robinson.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I mean by that is not even in a rude way, but in America, if you do something for somebody and then they say \u2018thank you\u2019, we\u2019ll say \u2018you\u2019re welcome\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cAustralians will be like, \u2018Oh, that\u2019s alright\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I first came over here, I was like, what do you mean, \u2018that\u2019s alright\u2019? If someone said that in the States, it would be a passive-aggressive response,\u201d Robinson said in a video shared with his 8,000 followers.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, the basketballer said that despite his initial confusion, he has since \u201ccome around to the fact\u201d that when Australians say \u201cthat\u2019s alright\u201d, it\u2019s the same as saying \u201cyou\u2019re welcome\u201d.<\/p>\n
Robinson\u2019s statement caught the attention of Aussie viewers, and thousands rushed to the comments section to share their reactions.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like \u2018you\u2019re welcome\u2019 implies we\u2019ve done a service for you and put ourselves out of our way to assist you, whereas \u2018no worries\u2019 implies that it hasn\u2019t been a bother for us to help you at all in the first place,\u201d one Aussie said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re welcome seems intense and could easily be misconstrued as passive-aggressive here,\u201d another echoed.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2018You\u2019re welcome\u2019 is normally used if someone doesn\u2019t say thank you or is rude in other ways. It\u2019s said sarcastically,\u201d a third explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s only \u2018you\u2019re welcome\u2019 if they don\u2019t say \u2018thank you\u2019,\u201d a fourth person added.<\/p>\n
Others turned the tables on Robinson to share their confusion about the American way of saying \u201cyou\u2019re welcome\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember asking an American to pass the salt, I said \u2018thanks\u2019, they said \u2018you\u2019re welcome\u2019, I\u2019m like calm down you just passed me salt,\u201d one Aussie joked.<\/p>\n
\u201cAussie in Los Angeles here! In LA people don\u2019t say \u2018you\u2019re welcome\u2019. They say \u2018uh-huh\u2019. It\u2019s the weirdest thing,\u201d another added.<\/p>\n
Responding to his comments, Robinson confirmed that he now had a better understanding of the Australian dialect.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, I take it back then\u2026it took me so long to get used to this, but we good now,\u201d he wrote in the caption of his post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American basketballer Andrew Robinson has revealed the one thing that baffled him about Australians, and left him wondering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[35486,64,27621,63,9461,726,1202,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-322939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-americans","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-aussies","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-australians","13":"tag-basketball","14":"tag-instagram","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}