The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #4741   Message #26224
Posted By: Bruce O.
21-Apr-98 - 09:23 PM
Thread Name: American Cultural oddities
Subject: RE: American Cultural oddities
No! some do but, it seems we are either too self-deprecating, or too cock sure we are the king of the mountain. Too little ballance at a mean. I've only been abroad once for a few weeks, and saw, in London, for example, so many brassy, cock-sure American tourists out rubernecking and making insulting comments in comparison of things British with things American in a loud voice, that I tried to disguise myself as British, so I wouldn't be thought to be one of them. [And I fooled some of the Americans at any rate.]