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Americans find Australia both exotic and familiar. If you travel in Australia, many things will make you think you are still at home. At other times you will feel as if you are in some sort of a fantasy land.
Americans can at once identify with a wealthy, English-speaking country with high living standards. Both Australia and the United States were colonized centuries ago by European immigrants, especially from the British Isles, settling a new continent across the seas. In both countries, the native people were brushed aside and decimated by disease and warfare. Both nations offered abundant natural resources and expanses of land for new farms, ranches, towns, and cities. |
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