jokerman
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If this was in the UK it would obviously be funny and a good joke. Sorry to stereotype your fellow citizens Jokerman but I can believe that this woman may be serious.
Fair enough Jokerman re the intlligent Yanks you know. In your environment I believe you. Superb if this woman was playing it along. Great stuff.
As a sweeping prejudiced stereotype, my daughter spent a couple of years working at a posh pub in Oxford whilst at Uni there and said the Yanks were generally really nice but the most ill informed people she'd ever met. This view has been enhanced in her trips around the world since.
Before I get slaughtered, I know this isn't fact and there are ill informed everywhere.
My students tend not to be smart in a brain of Britain/University Challenge sort of a way. I work at a provincial public university. But in terms of getting stuff done, putting something together, making what they’ve got work, and figuring out how to do stuff better -that’s where their strengths lie. They don’t analyze stuff. They fix it and make it work for them. My best students are as good as any. And of course, my wife, daughter and four grandchildren, who are also Yanks, are world-beaters.
I think it’s good for Brits, even those who are smart and have visited the US a few times, to be aware that they don’t have a handle on the place -just impressions rooted in their own way of seeing things. Same as Americans who visit the UK. It takes a long time and a lot of keeping quiet and watching to figure out what makes a place tick in its own terms.