Reading through your response above I can see how the differences in the way that we entered Australia would effect how we experience the culture. Where I came in to an almost socially preset environment, where most of the people I met we predisposed to accept me on the basis of their relationships with my husband and in-laws, you would have had a very different experience. I would love to hear more about what it was like for you moving here. In my conversation with Hive account@shaidon I stumbled across this website: http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSOnline.jsp . It shows the same survey information from different countries over a time period. You can even see the results from specific questions. I'm not sure if the number of people they surveyed is adequate to call it representative, but I did find it very interesting.