10 Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America
May 18th 2013, 4:21 pm
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Re: 10 Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America
Oops - I hope that couldn't be construed as 'bashing' America....
May 18th 2013, 4:33 pm
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May 18th 2013, 4:41 pm
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A very good point. As a well informed American that Sunshine State apparently is, I would imagine that he really should have thought of that.
May 18th 2013, 4:52 pm
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It may be popular with the people you mix with, but most people I know really don't care about it.
Maybe it's a redneck thing?
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May 18th 2013, 4:59 pm
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That seems rather a parochial attitude. I actually find it very strange that you would suggest that the only way to understand the US, is by understanding a game about which a large proportion of Americans obviously couldn't care less.
It may be popular with the people you mix with, but most people I know really don't care about it.
Maybe it's a redneck thing?
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It may be popular with the people you mix with, but most people I know really don't care about it.
Maybe it's a redneck thing?
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May 18th 2013, 5:13 pm
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Re: 10 Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America
The people I know that don't care for it, don't care to understand it either, it really is of no consequence to them.
May 18th 2013, 5:29 pm
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Re: 10 Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America
Really?
Since a Democrat is in office, isn't all benign?
Look at our media, and tell me if it is not true that ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NPR don't lap at the Democrat party trough?
Now, most complain about Fox news, and rightly so, as they lap at the Republican trough, but they are one against all those.
The US media is totally editorialized now, but the main ones have connections directly to this white house, so why should we expect them to cover the news in an unbiased fashion?
I mean I know that most in the UK favor the Democrat party, but then criticize our media...
Here is a visual aid for you...
https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.n...68910720_n.jpg
Yeah...they will be objective...oh yes....LOL.
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Since a Democrat is in office, isn't all benign?
Look at our media, and tell me if it is not true that ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NPR don't lap at the Democrat party trough?
Now, most complain about Fox news, and rightly so, as they lap at the Republican trough, but they are one against all those.
The US media is totally editorialized now, but the main ones have connections directly to this white house, so why should we expect them to cover the news in an unbiased fashion?
I mean I know that most in the UK favor the Democrat party, but then criticize our media...
Here is a visual aid for you...
https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.n...68910720_n.jpg
Yeah...they will be objective...oh yes....LOL.
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You're sounding like one of the americams that the author of the article spoke about. You know... The ones that think that the rest of the world actually care.
Most people in the UK don't favour one american political party or the other, they simply don't GAF.
May 19th 2013, 2:07 am
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Re: 10 Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America
My mother has a lady friend (widowed in March 2010) who is now in some kind of romantic relationship with an American man who has now lived in England (Gloucestershire) for 26 years, and he has said that in order for an American to be fully aware of all the downsides and pitfalls and negatives of living in the USA is not by continuing to live in the USA but to experience living in another country...in his case the UK.
However he took this widowed lady over to visit his relatives in Kentucky and she found it all to be a very pleasant experience, according to my Mum - the first time she had been to America, and she was particulary impressed with the standard of customer service in most retail outlets and restaurants etc, and how many free samples of all sorts of things were available to customers in supermarkets etc. Oh, and how friendly people were over there, but she didn't say whether it was superficial or genuine..I'd guess it was the former, but what do I know never having been to America.
But she said she wouldn't really like to live there without saying exactly why - maybe because she lives in a lovely house in the Cotswolds in an area called Midsummer Hill, which sounds quite idyllic.....and she is a landscape artist and writes articles for a local wildlife preservation group.
However he took this widowed lady over to visit his relatives in Kentucky and she found it all to be a very pleasant experience, according to my Mum - the first time she had been to America, and she was particulary impressed with the standard of customer service in most retail outlets and restaurants etc, and how many free samples of all sorts of things were available to customers in supermarkets etc. Oh, and how friendly people were over there, but she didn't say whether it was superficial or genuine..I'd guess it was the former, but what do I know never having been to America.
But she said she wouldn't really like to live there without saying exactly why - maybe because she lives in a lovely house in the Cotswolds in an area called Midsummer Hill, which sounds quite idyllic.....and she is a landscape artist and writes articles for a local wildlife preservation group.
May 19th 2013, 2:36 am
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Re: 10 Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America
So if you called a US Citizen an USC, you think they would understand you at first?
True though, USC means Southern Cal in the west but University of South Carolina in the South.
You do realize the true religion of the US is American college football don't you?
If you want to address and American, call him or her an American not an "USC". It will ingratiate yourself with those you want to teach rather than telling the idiot what he should expect to be called in his or her own land.
Are you a UKC?
OR UKS?
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True though, USC means Southern Cal in the west but University of South Carolina in the South.
You do realize the true religion of the US is American college football don't you?
If you want to address and American, call him or her an American not an "USC". It will ingratiate yourself with those you want to teach rather than telling the idiot what he should expect to be called in his or her own land.
Are you a UKC?
OR UKS?
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May 19th 2013, 3:04 am
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Re: 10 Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America
That seems rather a parochial attitude. I actually find it very strange that you would suggest that the only way to understand the US, is by understanding a game about which a large proportion of Americans obviously couldn't care less.
It may be popular with the people you mix with, but most people I know really don't care about it.
Maybe it's a redneck thing?
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It may be popular with the people you mix with, but most people I know really don't care about it.
Maybe it's a redneck thing?
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May 19th 2013, 3:37 am
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Re: 10 Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America
I don't get what the issue is about referring to a person as a United States Citizen over an American? If you have a conversation with someone, you're not going to refer to an American as a "USC" you're going to probably say American. So because it's written that way, it bothers you?
May 19th 2013, 3:42 am
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Re: 10 Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America
Football thing is very regional too.. Up here in the frozen north hockey (college, high school, town, as well as NHL) is the popular sport. They do have football at HS and college level, but it is not really the major sport simply because the outdoors is covered with snow and ice for much of the traditional football season.
May 19th 2013, 3:48 am
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Re: 10 Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America
Football thing is very regional too.. Up here in the frozen north hockey (college, high school, town, as well as NHL) is the popular sport. They do have football at HS and college level, but it is not really the major sport simply because the outdoors is covered with snow and ice for much of the traditional football season.
