In many ways, our history is sadly similar, just without the same overt level of slavery (but blackbirding was slavery in all but name), with the colonisation compressed into a shorter time frame and without one of the religious persecution foundations of the colony that does seem to have been preserved in your culture to this day.
P. S. When I see your handle, mentally I reply Nachtmusik. It does show how much conditioning plays in our responses.
P. P. S. We too have three levels of government, and associated taxes. Luckily, however, we have, so far, escaped from the worst excesses of your version of that that I have seen which includes things like a stadium tax applied to car rentals (Houston, I think) which really was just a local government sponsored kickback for the stadium developer paid for by out of town visitors.
@bradenslen @ajsadauskas @degoogle looksmart! There's a blast from the past.
As a very early internet user (suburbia.org.au- look it up, and who ran it) and a database guy, what I learnt very early is that any search engine needed users who knew how to write highly selective queries to get highly specific results.
Google - despite everything - can still be used as a useful tool - if you are a skilled user.
I am still surprised that you are not taught how to perform critical internet searching in primary school. It is as important as the three Rs