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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 ...