Japan Wants Foreign Tourists to Avoid Public Flatulence

[GUT]

I have always heard that Aussie women find American men very attractive and sexy. Is that true? Oh God, please let it be true.

c.d.

Come on down and find out.

[c.d.]

Come on down and find out.

Well I suppose if I got rejected there would at least be beer to drink. Oh wait, that is my fall back position here in America. Never mind.

c.d.

[Pcdunn]

I have always heard that Aussie women find American men very attractive and sexy. Is that true? Oh God, please let it be true.

c.d.

I don't know about that one, c.d., but as an American woman, I find several Australian and New Zealand male actors attractive and sexy.

[Ginger]

Probably the biggest issue I have with Americans, and it's nowhere near all of them, is that if you don't do things the American way, you simply must be wrong.

Well, yes... The American way is the right way. Everybody knows that.

[Robert]

Deep down, don't most people think that their own country, their own family, their own religion and their own heroes are the best? Nothing wrong with that.

[Steadmund Brand]

Probably the biggest issue I have with Americans, and it's nowhere near all of them, is that if you don't do things the American way, you simply must be wrong.

And???

Steadmund Brand

[Fleetwood Mac]

I hope the Japanese find us as surrealistically amusing as we find them. It would be a shame for them to miss out on such entertainment.

I for one don't find them amusing.

One of the best countries I've visited and despite superficial differences the people who are most like the English.

I've a lot of time for the Japanese.

[Fleetwood Mac]

I'm sure that there are things Aussies take for granted that annoy other cultures. Just as I am sure much of it is generalisations, most Aussies find it a bit funny that Americans seem to think they are the greatest nation on earth (and yep that's a generalisation and I know many really nice Americans) and seem to think everything in America is bigger, not realising that Australia is about the same size but with only 6 States so when the go on about how big, say Texas is, we find it a bit laughable.

But I know some Aussies who are real arrogant too.

I've never met an American who I'd class as arrogant. I've been over there and I've met some here, and to a man/woman I've found them well mannered and courteous.

[Rosella]

Well, I've met one or two arrogant Yanks, in the US, in Europe and in England. (There used to be a big US airforce base near to us in Norfolk, England and my uncle worked there.) However, the vast majority of Yanks I've met have been very nice, including one who paid me my first compliment when I was nine!

I think we all generalise though don't we at times, the voluble Frenchman, precise German, inscrutable Japanese, eccentric English with bad teeth, (I read on another forum of an American who went to study in England and was warned about the teeth) loud Aussies, etc. etc.? I just think the national stereotyping has grown up over the centuries. It doesn't resemble reality.

[GUT]

Well, I've met one or two arrogant Yanks, in the US, in Europe and in England. (There used to be a big US airforce base near to us in Norfolk, England and my uncle worked there.) However, the vast majority of Yanks I've met have been very nice, including one who paid me my first compliment when I was nine!

I think we all generalise though don't we at times, the voluble Frenchman, precise German, inscrutable Japanese, eccentric English with bad teeth, (I read on another forum of an American who went to study in England and was warned about the teeth) loud Aussies, etc. etc.? I just think the national stereotyping has grown up over the centuries. It doesn't resemble reality.

I thought it was drunk Aussies.

[Rosella]

Loud AND drunk, Gut, though I've never met any of those outside Oz, London and Bali! We're always very polite and shy when we are overseas. You know that!

[GUT]

Loud AND drunk, Gut, though I've never met any of those outside Oz, London and Bali! We're always very polite and shy when we are overseas. You know that!

I'm always shy everywhere, but I am a bit of a delicate little petal anyway.

[Robert]

I don't know if we British have bad teeth, because I don't look at people's teeth. Except for Americans. I look at their teeth because you can't avoid the bloody things. There are old hobble-de-hoys in their 80s flashing pearly white choppers. It ain't natural. I'm scared.

[Rosella]

Yes, they are so white and sparkly, onlookers are almost blinded. Maybe they aren't natural, though!

[c.d.]

I don't know if we British have bad teeth, because I don't look at people's teeth. Except for Americans. I look at their teeth because you can't avoid the bloody things. There are old hobble-de-hoys in their 80s flashing pearly white choppers. It ain't natural. I'm scared.

And of course there is always "The Big Book of British Smiles" from the Simpsons episode.

c.d.