U. S. prestige in Australia, New Zealand and other countries

Abstract

Our family of three, wife, ten year old son and self, recently spent some two years in Australia and New Zealand on a Fulbright scholarship. At the conclusion of our Fulbright contract, we travelled through Asia and Europe for some three months and thus completed a tour about this tired old globe. Our two years were filled with experiences we shall never forget and with memories that will continually re-thrill us. We were treated kindly and hospitably wherever we travelled and made many life-long friends. We personally do not recall an unpleasant experience or incident. We met courtesy and concern, from Sydney to Hong Kong, from Karachi to Brussels. Thus we were amazed to learn, from conversations with European and Asiatic friends and acquaintances that America is not liked abroad, and is horribly misunderstood. There would seem to be several reasons for this climate.