If there’s one place many Americans would want to be from if they couldn’t be from their own, it’s Australia. The countries share a providential belief that theirs is a land like no other. The self-image of the traditional Australian is like that of the rural American, reflecting an entitlement to open space, small government, and the Good Life. Americans tend to see Australians as a purer version of themselves, a sentiment to which the corny but endearing “Crocodile Dundee” played. Americans are also grateful for the participation of Australian troops in every war the U.S. has fought since the World Wars, including Vietnam.
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