‘The Aussies work out everythin’ backwards,’ says Wilson the Texan in Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead, and there’s nothing we enjoy more than to ruminate on how others perceive us, because we are not quite sure of what defines us. We don’t have the ideological drive of Americans, the sense of order of the British, or the historicism of the Chinese.
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