ABSTRACT
Chapter 5 describes the demographics of the interview population and details the descriptive statistics generated to describe the range of responses. Markers are identified that underpin or express the four specific heritage performances of reinforcement, intergenerational communication, recognition and misrecognition. The chapter also undertakes comparisons between the sites in the United States, Australia and England. While there are differences between the three nations, most notably the apparent deeper personal connections made by Americans to their heritage and the tendency of the English to be more overt in expressing their cognitive dissonance, there are far more similarities in how visitors engage between the three countries with sites and the consequences of those engagements.
