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Non-Americans Sharing Things Americans Don't Want to Hear...

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[ti-amie]

One of the most eye opening, and embarrassing things for an American to do is to go overseas and observe other American's behavior.

[ponchi101]

Uhm, you behave BETTER when you are overseas. When you are home, there is nothing holding you up.
And it is not Americans. I got to travel enough to know how other cultures do not understand about "when in Rome" and such things.

[ti-amie]

When I was last overseas - not recently though - if you saw people being rude and shouting at the people whose country they were visiting nine times out of ten it was an American couple or a group of them. I do hope it's gotten better.

[ti-amie]

I know that they don't teach script anymore but come on man!
It should be noted that as a result of a car crash Cawthorn is confined to a wheel chair.

[ti-amie]

I thought of Dry when I saw this.

[JazzNU]

I know that they don't teach script anymore but come on man!
It should be noted that as a result of a car crash Cawthorn is confined to a wheel chair.

Wow. And given that he can load and shot a gun adeptly, I doubt this is related to his accident.

[ponchi101]

I thought of Dry when I saw this.

We are closing the year in style

[dryrunguy]

I thought of Dry when I saw this.

I can tell you... I have an old ewe I call Whitney because she was born the same day Whitney Houston died (January 30, 2012), and she hates my guts. And whenever she sees the trailer, which is what we load the sheep in to take them to the place where they will be shorn, she runs out to the field. She just stands out in the field and stares at me, wishing me an immediate and painful death. She cannot be lured with feed or any other tactic. Twice a year, she makes loading the sheep into the trailer a MAJOR production.

The last time we had the ewes shorn, we were smarter about it. Dolphins fed them in the barn that morning (they are normally fed outside), and while they were eating, he closed all the doors. Then we backed up the trailer to one of the doors, opened the door, and then they loaded no problem.

But it took a few years to learn that lesson.

Strangely, she has no problem when she has just given birth and I am there to make sure the lambs eat.

But once she sees that trailer, forget it.

[ti-amie]

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It's really too bad that the caller didn't say "my family tradition is ________ and the foods mean this in the culture we grew up in" and make this a teaching/learning moment the way the newsperson did. Instead, well, here we are.

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[ponchi101]

That was awesome.
And, together with the marbula series, a perfectly sensible waste of time!!!
Txs

[ti-amie]

[dmforever]

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It's really too bad that the caller didn't say "my family tradition is ________ and the foods mean this in the culture we grew up in" and make this a teaching/learning moment the way the newsperson did. Instead, well, here we are.

I totally agree with you, but I will add that she didn't say that because she didn't mean that. She meant, stop being non-White. It was pretty clear.

Kevin

[ti-amie]

Definitely Kevin. The callers purpose was to shame and embarrass the newscaster for being non-White. It's too bad that that was the intent.