While Australia might have garnered a large portion of the global spotlight in recent years for reasons of celebrity, finance, and travel, it is undoubtedly a remote island-continent that is largely removed from the rest of the world. Such isolation has resulted in a more general outlook when it comes to the extraordinary diversity that defines the world as we know it, and it is not unusual for Australians to harmlessly refer to "Asians" or "Americans" rather than a specific nationality or ethnicity. Even though Joe is technically a Korean-Australian, he won't be able to do justice to Gangnam Style at your next karaoke event (and don't even think about asking him to translate the lyrics), as his introduction to the far-flung southern land of Australia was while he was seated in nappies. So really, all that you need to know about Joe is that he has spent the last three-and-a-half decades trying to do everything possible to transform the hazy cultural static of his upbringing into something far more nuanced and representative of the unfathomable wonder that is planet Earth.
