When I was in elementary school, I had a friend named Alan. He had an older brother named Robert. My dad had seen Alan over at our house. But when he saw Robert, he made the statement, "Robert looks more like Alan than Alan does!" It is absurd, but you get the idea of what he meant. Whatever corporeal or facial features Alan possessed, Robert had similar ones, but at a great level of intensity.
That is how I feel about Australia. I don't know a lot about Australia, but from a distance, Australia seems more like America than America does. It seems like a manly, "Wild West" place. I base this largely, I have to admit, on the very healthy auto racing culture that is obviously present there. Here are two examples of their Vintage Touring Car series. I love the green-and-white Falcon Sprint, and ... well ... all the rest of these cars, too! (Hat Tip to my son Eliot, who finds these things for me. I love when he pronounces "Bathurst" with an Aussie accent!)
