Re:Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America
by Apocryphon on Saturday July 13, 2013 @01:02PM
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I'm wondering how many fo these apply to other countries in the Anglosphere. Certainly Americans in general must be better at expressing emotions than the British in general, culturally speaking.
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Re:Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America
by onli on Saturday July 13, 2013 @01:36PM
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That part was quite funny to read, as a german. If americans are cold, what are we? Frozen to death.
Re:Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America
by weinzierl on Saturday July 13, 2013 @01:46PM
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As a fellow German this was my thinking as well.
Re:Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America
by TillE on Saturday July 13, 2013 @01:05PM
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Yeah, this for example is blatantly false in most other anglophone cultures and at least a few others I'm aware of. Or it's the exception rather than the rule:
> Whereas, in almost every other culture approaching women this way is met with a confident smile and a “Thank you.”