On 10/4/06, Mark Gallagher m.g.gallagher@student.canberra.edu.au wrote:
What is it about Americans, seriously? I mean, Australians are arrogant (well, we are): tell us we do something differently from the rest of the world, we'll say, "Gosh, we must be weird. Still, it's probably because we're so much cooler."
Tell an American that he does something differently from the rest of the world, and it's a case of, "Gosh, the rest of the world is so weird." (Of course, that Americans are cooler than the rest of the world goes without saying; in fact, to point it out would imply the possibility that this state of affairs could change, so it's best not to.)
It's very simple: most Americans don't really believe that the rest of the world exists. There's a place down south of Texas where farm labor comes from, and the fifty-first state up north of the Great Lakes is a good place to shop, but that's it, really.
-- Mark [[User:Carnildo]]