10 Oct
2012
10 Oct
'12
3 p.m.
On 10/10/2012 05:51 PM, Rob Jarratt wrote:
In our country, people think that the USA is the center of the world, the
Sadly that stereotype is based in fact, as many are. It's not
universally true, but I'll say the vast majority of people I meet fall
under that category.
And please ignore my glaring grammatical error ("I'm apologize"), it
was an edit error with too much blood in my caffeine stream. ;)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
> QUINZE MIL FLOPPIES??? Que voces vao fazer com
tanto disquete
assim?!
C: In
englaise sil vous plaint. No sprekenzy deutsche! Nor espanolay.
Pardon, mon signeur...I though it was a personal message :) Esto
non es espa?ol, pero que en Brasil hablamos el portuguese :) biggest in the world, and the most important in
the world. Most people
here think EVERYONE whose skin is a shade darker than ours is "Mexican",
they all speak "Spanish", and they all eat "Mexican food".
I can probably count on one hand the number of people here who realize
that:
1. Portuguese is the primary language in Brazil
2. Brazil is almost exactly the same size as the USA
3. Brazil has about 2/3 as many citizens as the USA
4. Brazil's currency is NOT the Peso
5. Mexico is a part of North America
It is very embarrassing sometimes. :-( I'm a person who failed nearly
every
course in high school, due to disinterest and a
crappy system, and even
*I*
know these things!
I'm apologize for the way most of us are. We are just clueless, and we
mean no disrespect. (well, most of us don't)
-Dave
That is certainly the stereotype that we British have of the people of the
USA (I try to avoid "Americans" because that should by rights include people
from Canada to Chile), but I try not to believe in stereotypes, and although
I am sure there are people like that in your country, I sincerely believe
that there are more than a few who are not.