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discouraging wanting other people’s admiration

value: many people in Australia think it is good if people can think like this (see more)

It is bad if someone (e.g. George) thinks: I want other people to think about me like this: George is someone very good. George is not like other people.

"Harriet won an award at work, but she didn't tell anyone about it because she didn't want people to think that she wants them to give her praise."

"Terry didn't like Jordan, becuase Jordan was always showing off and trying to show how much better he was than everyone else."

valuing presumed social similarity and social equality discouraging feelings of ‘specialness’presuming and valuing perceived ‘shared ordinariness’tall poppy tall poppy syndrome big-noting yourself proud (of something)proud (of someone)

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