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Ranting and raving about America. (Devine).

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| July 01, 2003 | Devine, Frank | COPYRIGHT 2003 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

THOUGH GROSS and irritating, recent expressions of anti-Americanism in Australia convince me that it is of little consequence here. It is often frivolous, vehement but mostly passionless, lazily deceitful or ill-informed and without political substance or influence.

Here are some Australian anti-Americanisms:

* A history student at an Australian university, wishing to add a touch of the forensic to a denunciation of Americans for spreading a junk food culture, declared: "In America, a packet of potato crisps costs less than a potato." Fact: On a recent Sunday at Byerly's supermarket in St Louis Park, Minnesota, my agent John G. Hubbell found that a ...

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