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Thread #75274   Message #1319955
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
07-Nov-04 - 06:47 PM
Thread Name: BS: Why are we generalising about Americans?
Subject: RE: BS: Why are we generalising about Americans?
"Check it out, almost half of Americans didn't vote for Bush."

Far more than that. Almost half of them didn't vote for anyone. You get their point too.

When non-Americans are rude about Americans it often means they are looking at what they expect they might be like a few years down the one, and they don't like the thought. It's a kind of "God Forbid!"

But generally the kind of things people go on about when in that mood are the same things a whole lot of Americans don't much like too.

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As for "yellow teeth" - human teeth aren't meant to be shiny white, and never have been. A mouthful of glittering white shiny teeth are quite a scary sight really...