The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #34941   Message #474423
Posted By: Peg
01-Jun-01 - 10:36 AM
Thread Name: BS: To see ourselves as others see us
Subject: RE: BS: To see ourselves as others see us
I think this quiz is a bit silly. Presumably it is the outrageous "C" answers which all Americans are supposed to choose?

Most Americans find stereotyping of other cultures offensive....I find it ironic that regarding a country as huge and diverse as the United States of America, anyone in the world would think it possible to pigeonhole or stereotype American citizens in general. This seems to me an impossible task...

A lot of Americans are fat, lazy, stupid, gullibel, apathetic war-mongers.

But certainly not the majority.

I often find when I tarvel in the UK I do better to pretend I am English because it tales people a while to figure out I am not a "typical" American tourist (whatever that is).

One pagan friend actually introduced me and my travelling companion to others last year "This is Peg and Berta; they're Americans, but we like them."