I can see how the differences in the way that we entered Australia would effect how we experience the culture.
That's a good point. It's also a good example of why statistics are often inaccurate. Too many variables. The thing we have in common is that we are both migrants; other than that we have completely different backgrounds and our circumstances on entering the country are completely different.
But have you found your experiences, once here, to be similar in the way you perceived Australians and our culture / ways of doing things?
Not really. You have to remember that most of us learnt about Australia via Crocodile Dundee! Lol!