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Latest post on 26 March 2011 - 15:44

NYCDoll, Stereotyping the Americans is a world sport, Bush i'm afraid highlighted the passport issue! Having worked in and out the US for over 10 years i was always amazed at how being the "Brit" was immediately pointed out and identified with amazement and how all the different states and people i met from them were so different from another, quite amazing. Can i tell you that after the 50th person has identified you as being English the temptation to respond "No **** Sherlock" is high. LOL

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Latest post on 26 March 2011 - 15:39

Ladies! Stereotypes are ugly. Sure there is some truth in them-but come on! Is this fair to say: Lets talk about other stereotypes shall we? Like if you are an Indian at a formal event, your purse will for sure be filled with the freebie butter, sugar, rolls, milk packets...If you are British, well then of course you will be drunk and unruly in skank wear. If your are Russian, you are of course their turning tricks. If you are Scottish then you must be fighting the Indian for whatever freebies are on the table. If you are American you are chewing on a stick of hay while cleaning your cowboy hat. And if you're Arab, well then you will just be eyeing up and down the said drunk brit hoping to get in her panties while your covered up wife is too busy looking after your spoiled children and beating her maid. Bwahahahahahah!!! :cool:

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Latest post on 26 March 2011 - 15:38

... I spent the first half of my life thinking "Asian" basically meant Chinese or Japanese. My first year of teaching I was in a meeting and the administration informed me that I had a new Asian boy that required something or other from me and I replied, "there are no Asian students in my class" - my school had a very large and vibrant Pakistani and Indian population and surrounding community. Ignorance is bliss...shame! Don't feel bad about that! In Australia, 'Asian' to us means 'South-East Asian' and NOT Indian/Pakistani eg someone from the 'sub-continent'. You were only technically incorrect because of a linguistic anomaly, not because you were ignorant. :)

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Latest post on 26 March 2011 - 15:38

In many ways the lack of international travel is very understandable with the US being so big and diverse, every state is like a different country in many ways.

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Latest post on 26 March 2011 - 15:37

I've yet to see a cap at a formal event as well. Sure this thread will turn into an American bashing one soon Oh i don't know, it's always refreshing to see a post by an American, usually means they own a passport, which puts them straight up in my estimation instantly! LOL (sorry red rag to a bull, can't resist it) OK - ROFLMAO Passport - classic! Another story - when I moved to the UK the first time, I had this horrible live in job but with a FABULOUS 2 bedroom cottage in Cambridge -too bad I didn't know ONE PERSON from the home with a passport that could visit me!!!

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Latest post on 26 March 2011 - 15:35

... I spent the first half of my life thinking "Asian" basically meant Chinese or Japanese. My first year of teaching (in the UK) I was in a meeting and the administration informed me that I had a new Asian boy that required something or other from me and I replied, "there are no Asian students in my class" - my school had a very large and vibrant Pakistani and Indian population and surrounding community. Ignorance is bliss...shame! <em>edited by ccdoha on 26/03/2011</em>

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You are always protective of anything American, while back home you probably complained about those very things yourself that you are now defending! You watch movies/ tv shows which are based in America that you never even watched living there just as some form of comfort... You miss Olive Garden and Cheesecake Factory and 99 Cent store and Sams Club, the taste of real quality cakes and real quality home baked things are just not the same here! Cheap and amazing Mexican food! ahh the list goes on.... I feel ill never get to live there again Born and Bred in the OC.... Been here 2.5 years.... :**( Is that Orange county (CA), Ocala or Oklahoma?

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Latest post on 26 March 2011 - 15:33

I've yet to see a cap at a formal event as well. Sure this thread will turn into an American bashing one soon Oh i don't know, it's always refreshing to see a post by an American, usually means they own a passport, which puts them straight up in my estimation instantly! LOL (sorry red rag to a bull, can't resist it)

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Latest post on 26 March 2011 - 15:30

You are always protective of anything American, while back home you probably complained about those very things yourself that you are now defending! You watch movies/ tv shows which are based in America that you never even watched living there just as some form of comfort... You miss Olive Garden and Cheesecake Factory and 99 Cent store and Sams Club, the taste of real quality cakes and real quality home baked things are just not the same here! Cheap and amazing Mexican food! ahh the list goes on.... I feel ill never get to live there again Born and Bred in the OC.... Been here 2.5 years.... :**(

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Latest post on 26 March 2011 - 15:27

I've yet to see a cap at a formal event as well. Sure this thread will turn into an American bashing one soon

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Latest post on 26 March 2011 - 15:25

East coasters just love their baseball caps! LOL They sure do, but never seen them worn at a formal event. I think our east coast guys look so cute in a Red Sox or Yankees cap...

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Latest post on 26 March 2011 - 15:23

You wear your baseball cap/cowboy hat everywhere and jeans even to formal events!! Never met an American that wore jeans to a formal event! A cowboy hat ?!

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...I had to look at googlemaps again today to see where we were in relation to Saudi and Abu Dhabi to see if the dust storm had past us or was still coming - geography is just not in our blood!

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East coasters just love their baseball caps! LOL

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Never met a Texan yet who doesn't wear his hat and boots everywhere! LOL

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Latest post on 26 March 2011 - 15:19

You wear your baseball cap/cowboy hat everywhere and jeans even to formal events!! YES, YES - they're probably from Texas :)

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Latest post on 26 March 2011 - 15:18

You wear your baseball cap/cowboy hat everywhere and jeans even to formal events!! uh, no. Who have you been hanging out? Yanks? (LOL) clearly the wrong kind! Those sound my countrymen I avoid!

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You wear your baseball cap/cowboy hat everywhere and jeans even to formal events!! uh, no. Who have you been hanging out? Yanks? (LOL)

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You wear your baseball cap/cowboy hat everywhere and jeans even to formal events!! uh, no. Who have you been hanging out?

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Latest post on 26 March 2011 - 15:12

You wear your baseball cap/cowboy hat everywhere and jeans even to formal events!!

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Latest post on 26 March 2011 - 15:01

You miss Target You miss, DSW, TJ MAXX, Marshalls, whole sale liquidators...just to name a few ;)

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Latest post on 26 March 2011 - 15:00

at this point, I'd settle for WALMART!!! But what I really miss is Old Navy :( <em>edited by ccdoha on 26/03/2011</em>

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You miss Target

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Latest post on 26 March 2011 - 14:54

you're at Carrefour and you ask for a supervisor!

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You expect and then demand good customer service-which is non existent in the ME!

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