The Study on Australian National Identity in Australian Gaming

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200428.052How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Australian gaming industry, gambling, Australian national identity

Abstract

Gaming or gambling has a crucial and distinctive place in the Australian culture. Many Australians are proud of their reputation as a nation of people who will “bet on two flies on the wall”. This study attempts to explore the popularity of gaming in Australia and its relationship with the Australian national identity. Three representative elements in Australian national identity, egalitarianism, fatalism and mateship are discussed together with gaming, revealing a result that those cultural factors are all embodied in gaming. The study focuses on the cultural factors integrated in the gaming activities, using cultural elements to explain the significant social phenomenon.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Fuyuan Lei
AU  - Ping Yi
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/05/01
TI  - The Study on Australian National Identity in Australian Gaming
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 237
EP  - 240
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200428.052
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200428.052
ID  - Lei2020
ER  -