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24 April 2008 in Notes, Politics by Stilgherrian | 1 comment
The world laughs at Americans because they seem so unaware of anything outside their own borders. Well, a client reports on an American colleague returning to the US head office after a business trip to Sydney. “You know Australia?” he told his office-mates. “It’s almost like another country!” Yeah. Almost. God bless America.
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24 April 2008 at 1:26 pm
Nick Cowie
Unfortunately it is true, even to the point that some Americans will find parts of Australia more like home than other parts of America.
I have done a couple of US road trips and spent time in a number of midwest towns, other than the lack of big pubs on the main street it could of been a country town in Western Australia.