Our cultural relationship without the USA usually flows in one direction, from them to us.
But for some things they are looking to us, here in Aotearoa.
Caroline Klibanoff is currently visiting on an Eisenhower fellowship.
Her aim - to learn how we incorporate youth into civic life and set up a similar system back home.
The US Capitol in Washington, DC, United States. Photo: AFP/Aashish Kiphayet
