Passion and respect towards culture and ethnic traditions is a result of such bright individualism in natives. No matter how respectfully a local resident feels about other cultures the ethnic one is considered by native people to be the best one. Despite the distant and respectful attitude to foreign guests the city residents are indifferent towards foreign culture and will hardly perform any interest and curiosity asking a new acquaintance about his or her way of life at home.
However Australians feel extremely passionate of talking about ethnic traditions. They are proud of ethnic culture and justly consider it to be unique one. Local people do not consider any authorities as hard working and responsible people of middle class are of higher esteem among natives than those pompous successful moneybags.
Speaking of ethnic identity the climate of Melbourne is worth mentioning and attention. The matter is that it controls and edits in a way the life of the city residents. During a day the weather in Melbourne can sufficiently change. Thus many local residents are literally forced to have several outfits in the car in case of weather emergency. Thus in hot mornings shorts and t-shirts are agreeable to appear in the offices, however it is quite of norm to go home in a warm jacket after extra cold showering rain at noon. Such weather circumstances are of great interest among tourists and are considered rather remarkable and exotic.
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