Laughable statement with no shred of proof ... I know America... I grew up there ... Australia is not similar to the US.

14 Cultural Differences between the USA and Australia

Bear in mind that 54% of Australians are officially classified as Anglo-Celtic and 92% are white.

History of America is shaped by slavery of Africans, the Civil War, KKK and racism, the civil rights movement of the 1960s, the Democratic leadership pf FDR and the back-lash of extreme rightwing Republicans founded in the Barry Goldwater era.

The division in US Congress, the hostility between Red and Blue has a crippling effect on American society. From my educated guess, Australia bears more resemblance with `Old Country' England than with the descendants of George Washington's America.

America is greatly divided between metropoles and the agricultural Midwest, the Deep South, the Plains into Texas and the Progressive West Coast.

Most remarkable difference was illustrated by the film Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore in his neighborhood Detroit, Great Lakes and crossing the border into Canada. A difference of day and night. American society and democracy is imploding.

Gun ownership and homocides, selected countries

The 2nd Amendment of the US Constitution is here to stay.

I understand most gun deaths are ... suicides.

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide