NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I wasn't - because I've worked for many years with people of different cultures, with different languages and I know from experience that humour does NOT translate well - both via culture and by language and THAT was (I feel) David's point - not that he was taking an "I'm an Aussie and you're not" bullshit approach which people are trying to put on him ... which is absolute crapola!!!!
It's not about culture though because if it was, Priya would be the one struggling to make friends and having people talk about how annoying she is/how uncomfortable she makes them feel.
She gets the occasional comment, but nowhere near as often as David, who's now having to suck up to the intruders because he's been unable to develop any real connection with the other housemates.
It has nothing to do with culture, it's that David has poor social skills and is unable to see (or, more likely, doesn't care) when someone is uncomfortable. Which is an important part of being social - watching the way people react so that if you're making them uncomfortable you can jump on it immediately and correct the situation.
It was a shitty situation to put her in, and it was his responsibility to diffuse it because he'd made it impossible for her to do it herself.
When you're having DEFENCE DEFENCE chanted at you, there's NOTHING you can say without them chanting it louder like "haaa you're proving our point."
You can't really defend a bloke with saying "jokes just don't translate well" when the bloke himself acts like he's from another fuckin planet.
