On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 08:22 -0500, lanas wrote: > As for the second point I mentioned, people having in general more > interests in things, this is very flagrant with the percentage of > Americans not caring what Bush has lead them to so far. Thirty something percent? > Political > chitchat in America often boils down to echoing something heard on > TV. I don't watch TV and neither do most of my friends > In Europe you at least get the feel that the individual has given > some thought to the matter. You seem to be comparing cultured Europeans to American hicks, but you can go to the south of France or the mountains of Switzerland and find people who are the European equivalent of dumb ass rednecks in the US. Lee