Worth every fucking penny you French wannabe cheese-sniffing trash Canadian.

I totally lol'd. I'm a horrible person.

Lol, we all are.

Was there anything about the US in there? XD

Stormcrow wrote:

And I have to admit I do like the way they characterize Bollywood.

In a sense, it is a bit accurate. Bollywood is the most wonderful conflagration of cliche and originality.

Yasha wrote:

Stormcrow wrote:

...it's hard for me to reconcile you as Yasha's louder neighbor somehow...

Are you saying I'm loud, bitch?

What's that, you wanna fight? Huh? Do you feel lucky or something?

Yasha will one day make a most excellent New Yorker.

Now I feel embrassed because I don't know nothing from Canadian culture (one exeption: Maple Syrup).

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"Dubbed the world's 'living art gallery', Italy has more culture than you can shake a paintbrush at. In fact it's fair to say that if something can be painted, played, eaten, sang, sculpted or written about, the Italian's had a hand in elevating its appreciation to the highest art form. The world has much to thank the Italians for."

"Coffee, beer and wine are of course magnificent countrywide."

I must say... LOL!
Everyone talk about what Italy was, not what Italy actually is...
I'm sure you know about the problem of rubbish in Campania... what a mess... poor, poor Italy

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dlaire wrote:

Now I feel embrassed because I don't know nothing from Canadian culture (one exeption: Maple Syrup).

Don't forget hockey and Canadian bacon!

Oh, and Canada's primary export: ACTORS!

Maarika wrote:

They...teach that?

Unfortunately, the more I hear about American schooling, the more I can recognize as misinformation and flat-out propaganda, serving only the interests of whoever is in power. I disagree with the use of the school system to spread misinformation like this, but there is nothing I can do about it.

Gio and I have compared our schooling extensively, and the education I got in small-town primary, junior high, and high schools has far outmatched anything she's gotten in those, and in some cases, even what she's received in college education. For example, the high school math course I took last summer went beyond the maths that she learned in her college classes.

Maarika wrote:

Also, does it say anything about Estonia?

I would guess not. Sorry, sweetie. America doesn't concern itself much with smaller European countries... or larger ones, for that matter. The only reason I have to believe that some Americans know Estonia exists is because of that awful movie a few years back with Brendan Fraser playing a stone-age man who thawed out in modern day. In the movie, the excuse for his odd behavior was that he was from Estonia.

"Swiss folk culture includes yodeling, playing the alp horn and Swiss wrestling. We suggest you don't indulge in any of these after a night in a Swiss tavern."

I wish you had an emoticon armed with a gun. That might definitely come in handy right about now. And if this is the characterization of Switzerland, I'd love to read what they say about Ireland. I bet it's like...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1hbd5WO3chg& … re=related

Yasha wrote:

I would guess not. Sorry, sweetie. America doesn't concern itself much with smaller European countries... or larger ones, for that matter. The only reason I have to believe that some Americans know Estonia exists is because of that awful movie a few years back with Brendan Fraser playing a stone-age man who thawed out in modern day. In the movie, the excuse for his odd behavior was that he was from Estonia.

Hahaha, I heard somewhere that when an American was asked to tell something about Estonia then all they knew was that movie. So it's a true story, sadly. But I suppose most of them don't even know this country exists.

...Still, I had heard that the higher education in the US was quite good, so it's kind of hard for me to believe they teach things like that.

I know off the top of my head that Estonia is an Eastern European country, a bit south of Scandinavia and bordered to the south by Latvia, that used to be a Soviet satellite state -- so the American education system must not suck quite so much as everyone says.  I have to admit, though, that I know almost nothing else about it; I don't know the capital, and I can't name a single cultural achievement by an Estonian.  So the American education system obviously isn't as good as it should be. 

ETA: Oh, and hey, as long as I'm on this kick, let me add that the best American universities are some of the best universities in the world.  We also have a lot of crummy colleges, as well as scads of crummy high schools.  I have heard Americans excuse ourselves by saying "well, but it's not important that everyone grow up to be smart; it's only important that the smartest of us grow up to be smart, and that's what the good colleges are for."  This argument would be more convincing if a majority of us had the reasoning and literacy skills to understand it.

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