Foop; US Geography
Take your point. Valid? Yes.

However, I know the US is sandwiched between Canada and Mexico, they speak English (more or less), roughly where the big cities are, and when I go there on holiday I do not assume their delightful and interesting country should be on my cultural terms.

I wouldn't dream of correcting shop assistants that the first floor of a department store is infact the ground floor, or that the sidewalk is actually called the pavement, by the way.
I find it hard to accept that some, not all by any means, US tourists can not actually think that they are somewhere different from home, which has its own way of doing things.

And dont get me started on the Service Culture Myth......
( Fire & Forget it's the only way to be sure, Thu 13 Jan 2005, 18:52, Reply)