[WikiEN-l] templates for country-centric POV?

[Mark Wagner]

On 10/4/06, Mark Gallagher <m.g.gallagher at 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
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