[UA] 10 Most American Things

[Chris Cooper]

--- Rev Kev <kelmore at rocketmail.com> wrote:
> 2.  Piss-drinking.  By this, I mean the cheap beers
> that the average slob drinks.  Budweiser, Miller,
> Coors.  

Also American beers are weaker than most European
beers. This is why people can pack away a six-pack and
not fall over.
 
> 3.  Religious billboards.  While the west coast is
> better about religion than the rest of the nation,
> rural is rural, and rural people tend to be more
> Christian.

Years ago when I went through rural south, I didn't
notice as many religious billboards as a did recruit
billboards for the military. The areas for this tended
to be dirt-poor areas. It seems the military was a
life line out of the squalor.

Also don't forget the plethora of FM country and AM
Christian radio stations.

> 7.  Church. The townie was worried when she
> noticed that the newcomer wasn't at church. Also a
note about Conspiracy Theories, many Christians adopt
them too especially that old and tired International
Satanism. 

Oh yes. This is a big thing - especially in the South
- is if you're new people would come up to you and
ask: Are you Christian? It was like hearing cyborgs
tell me I was going to be assimilated.

A friend of mine has an anecdote: he was sitting at a
diner in the South (he was a navigator on a cargo
liner) and he was reading some book or other when some
patron walked in from the other side of the diner and
asked him what he was doing. When he replied, I'm
Reading, she asked him, "Why would you want to do
that?" According to him, she was being serious.

I guess what I'm saying is that America is actually
very strange even for English-speaking foreigners.
It's not as evident in the urban West Coast cities as
it is in the rural areas but the oddness is still
there.

Cheers,

Chris.

 



 
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