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Thread #47562   Message #710445
Posted By: Bill D
13-May-02 - 04:28 PM
Thread Name: BS: Are Americans 'insular'?
Subject: RE: BS: Are Americans 'insular'?
Everyone please note ...I have NOT started a thread called "Are Brits prim and stuffy"

Why? Because they are NOT all that way, even though many movies, TV programs and joke portray them that way.

Is there ANY truth to sterotypes? Probably--there are certain national identity characteristics for any country.....Germans, Americans, Japanese, Swedes, Aussies...all have idiosyncracies which sort of identify them, But even is a smallish country like Englad, there are differences....so in the USA, with 3000 miles between Miami & Seattle, there are wide variations in what we think, do, speak, eat, believe, listen to, celebrate, study, care about and know.

It is, as 'spaw says, pretty funny reading yet another attempt to label 250,000,000 people with one simplistic tag. Thing is, is is the 'insular', stupid, thoughtless, obnoxious members of a society that get noticed and stand out in a crowd....and you have yours, just as we have ours..