The Australian Dictionary of Invisible Culture for Teachers
laid back
adjective: a kind of person (see more)
A kind of person (e.g. Tim)
Tim doesn’t often think like this: Something bad can happen to me, I can’t not do something because of this.
Because of this, Tim doesn’t often feel something bad.
At the same time Tim often thinks like this: I can do many things as I want, this is good
Because of this, Tim often feels something good.
Many people think like this: it is good if someone is like this.
"This polling shows that while Australia Day is important to most Australians, most people are laid back about the date we celebrate on,' Ebony Bennett, deputy director of the institute said on Thursday. 'When asked to choose which date Australia Day should be celebrated on, less than a quarter chose the current date from a range of options."
"On the court, obviously I’m very intense and I show a lot of emotion. But off the court I’m very laid back, I like to relax and chill out."
"But to the laid-back residents of Norfolk Island, a plan by Australian researchers to use them as the first guinea pigs in a 'personal carbon-trading' scheme sounds well-suited to their self-sustainable inclinations."
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