Exactly. They think that they are the only people on the 'net and are
quite shocked when the person isn't from America. It's especially stupid

hrm...  Well, The first thing I have to say is that most Americans get 99%
of their information from television.  The television that they watched is
produced in the us (occasionally filmed in canada by a bunch of americans)
and is based on things happening in America.  When news from other countries
comes up, they usually think "hmmm, Austrailia, that's where everyone fights
aligators in swamps" or "Scotland, that's where all the men walk around in
skirts playing bagpipes" or "Greece, that's where everyone walks around in
togas talking about math".  So it's not hard to understand that most
Americans have a really warped world view.  Also, for the most part most
American's contact with foreigners are Mexicans (Latinos is not a word that
really fits, since most of them don't speak latin), Chinese (and every so
often someone from Japan, Korea, or Vietnam), and sometimes Canadians, but
most people don't really think of them as foriegners since they are mostly a
bunch of english (some french) speaking white guys without any funny accents.

Hence, most Americans know that there are a bunch of countries other than
the U.S., and there are people who do in fact live in those countries, but
don't accually realize it.

I'd acually blink because no-one from Australia describes where they are

>from in relation to the coast. They'd just say a state. So I'd go:

Errr... The north coast?

Confused? Most Australians wouldn't continue to believe that the person
they are speaking to is in Australia at this point and go:

Oh? Where're you from?

Not:

You said the north coast... you in the north-west (of WA)?

see my previous ranting.

We can't all be perfect...

Nope goober, if we killed all the non-perfect people, all that would be left
is perfect people.

   If you are trying to use a program to print out a paper that uses 
certain defaults unless otherwise instructed by you, wish the program to 
print out the paper according to some other parameters but fail to tell 
the program, and the paper is printed out wrong, it is not the computer's 
fault. It is yours for not telling it that information it reasonably 
assumed for want of other information was not correct.
   In short, Americans are much smarter than it amuses you to think. For 
one thing, they value their time. They'd rather not waste it on conveying 
information that the recipient doesn't need.

Sou ka? So ... Americans are like word processors?

Nope goober, it's just that most Americans are oblivious to anything beyond
the borders of the US.

   I have some news for you: ignorant, provincial morons live everywhere. 
From what I've heard you say, I suspect there's plenty of them in 
Australia.

Yep, and I make fun of them, too. They're all called 'Bruce' and sit in
pubs in the country all day and do nothing but drink and attract flies.

Good the hear that America isn't the only place with large numbers of Morons.

It's just because the American government thinks they rule the world and
they are so great if they 'help' out in a fight ... it's just a lot of
showing off, even if it does 'help'.

You're right about those morons.

   Education? American universities are the best in the world. That's 
why Japanese students come to study here, and not Americans in Japan. 

Japanese students come here, too. So that means that Australian 
universities are the best in the world. Australians don't go to Japan
for uni, or very rarely.

Nope, It just means that Japan is way too crowded, and it's a hell of a lot
cheaper to go to school elsewhere, anyway, American grade schools
(kindergarten throught highschool) are CRAP.

why don't they learn the metric system?

Remember, Americans are oblivious to the outside world.

Trust me--those in charge of making 
movies here do take the non-American market into account when they make 
their films.

No they don't.

Personally, I'd rather see an anime marathon than a movie at the cinema,
and day of the week.

I agree with that logic :)

Americanising British shows fails very badly, and the American end product
sucks. That's why the American pilots of Red Dwarf fell over so badly. The
Americans wrecked the characters to make them 'politically correct' and it
just plain sucked.

You hit that one right on the head.  I stopped watching TV over a year ago
since everything was either idiotic, politically correct, or both.

into Hebrew, say, even though Picard (say) is an American in spite of 
his French background, as all humans in that show at base really are; 

Picard's an *AMERICAN*????? O_o  Where did you pull that one from??? Not
even his *actor* is an American... and he doesn't speak like an American,
either!

Patrick Stewart is most definately British.

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