Originally posted by Palafo
I do hope the non-Americans reading posts here realize that we just happen to live in the same geography as the ugly Americans and we are just as offended by their girth, their loud voices, their hideous clothes, their closemindedness, their monolingual natures, their consumerist tendency to waste money, etc etc. I am sure that there are things about your own countrymen that many of you would prefer to dissasociate yourself from.
Yes, there certainly are. Australians have many of the same tendencies as Americans (perhaps not the waistline for the most part, but all the others are there). Another thing that makes me angry about people in this country is their love of criticising others for doing the same things that they themselves do all of the time.
An example of the above is the whole 'drugs in sport' attitude. Every time an Australian sports person is caught, we get hammered with the "innocent mistake" plea, but anyone else caught is a "cheat". Yeah right.
Chris