Alistair Cooke, TV, giant steaks, space, interstates, Pontiac, creole, cajun food!OHMYGO3, tobacco, Nixon, religion, cheap bourbon, tipping, surgical enhancements, impossibly complex ice cream flavours, peanut butter, baseball, blues, lawyers, Bob Dylan, patriotism, Vaudeville, corn, Beatnik, aaaand though I could continue, my last association is going to be: Hunter S. Thompson.
Man, that was exhausting! And, now that I read it, kinda weird & hardly fair. But!, like you Americans seem fond of saying: it is what it is.
Man, that was exhausting! And, now that I read it, kinda weird & hardly fair. But!, like you Americans seem fond of saying: it is what it is.
"All the worlds are in the sky
and some of them keep me from falling."
-- Charlie Mystery, age 5
and some of them keep me from falling."
-- Charlie Mystery, age 5
/of sorts. Culture in general. And more specifically, American culture.
04/10/2010 07:32:29 PM
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The foreigner POV
04/10/2010 08:17:24 PM
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I think of how the Rockies and Appalachians were created by MGB and Chuck Norris wrestling. *NM*
05/10/2010 12:57:31 AM
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How about traditional American values?
05/10/2010 01:43:07 AM
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isn't that a bit misleading?
05/10/2010 07:52:18 AM
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yes but we have more of it
05/10/2010 02:50:53 PM
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05/10/2010 03:10:18 PM
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Do you know why it is rude to ask someone if they are from Texas?
05/10/2010 05:53:19 PM
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Word (concept) association with "American culture"
05/10/2010 09:57:07 AM
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i think those are pretty indicative word associations. *NM*
05/10/2010 03:08:08 PM
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Some of that may be more European than American culture.
06/10/2010 04:20:16 AM
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every other animal leaves it on the ground.
06/10/2010 04:50:00 AM
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Yeah, but even the "bigger is better" thing isn't purely American; we just took to an extreme.
06/10/2010 05:06:27 AM
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really, the part that most people go to at the Canyon isn't really a "nature park"
06/10/2010 05:33:48 AM
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My whole point there was that most US nature parks are tourist attractions.
06/10/2010 06:37:00 AM
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Nothing's purely anything, but you guys've got the The World's Biggest [everything] over there.
06/10/2010 07:14:55 AM
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with your medical training you really want to advocate leaving it on the ground? *NM*
06/10/2010 09:30:57 PM
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But circumcision is a hot topic in the US
06/10/2010 05:42:25 AM
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It is?
06/10/2010 06:51:31 AM
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You're wrong about the default for circumcision the world over
06/10/2010 07:44:40 AM
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That surprises me, but alright.
06/10/2010 10:00:14 AM
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It is indeed only prevalent among Jews and Muslims - and the old British empire.
06/10/2010 10:38:07 AM
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I've actually never heard it discussed except for two/three times on the wotmania/rafo boards.
06/10/2010 10:16:50 PM
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You make a good point about tipping
06/10/2010 09:58:10 AM
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I disagree - surely tipping is much more internationally widespread than some others in that list.
06/10/2010 10:43:32 AM
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Right!
05/10/2010 09:42:20 PM
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A Scandinavian fond of Creole and Cajun food? I thought my grandmother was the only one...
05/10/2010 10:30:57 PM
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You mean. . . there are people out there who don't love Creole and Cajun food?
06/10/2010 06:48:21 PM
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