[Culturechat] Can anyone remember?

[Vance Roy]

> Vance,
>  
> Thank you so much for sending this out. I have already forwarded to 
> many people, and will continue to do so. Is the United States perfect? 
> Of course not, but there is no doubt that we have helped, and continue 
> to help, others all over the world - and then we are hated! Jealously 
> might play a part in it, eh?       


In my experience here in CH, people are extremely ambivalent about the 
USA. On the one hand, most want to travel there or go back for another 
trip. Some even live there part of each year. Of course, there are 
exceptions. I had a big argument with an elderly gentleman while we 
were on a cable car. He insisted the Bush was just like Hitler. The 
folks in CH don't have much to envy in the USA except the wide open 
spaces. On the other hand, people in most other countries do tend to 
bite the hand that feeds them.

This isn't to say that there are not ugly Americans. Anyone who travels 
much has seen Americans behave badly in foreign countries.


Vance Roy
gigli.saw@dplanet.ch
http://homepage.mac.com/fredch