AMERICANS VERSUS FOREIGNERS:
What foreigners like and dislike most about us
Before I go into some details and explain:
1-Why the majority of foreign countries lost faith in the United States
(Who cares? Yah, right!)?
2-Why many foreigners look down on American men and women?
3-Why the majority of foreigners would never trust us again?
4-Why American women scare the hell out of them?
5-Why contemporary American art is falling apart in Europe, Latin America,
Africa and the Middle East?
6-Why those bloody antagonistic foreigners keep on coming to America and
suck our blood, eat our honey and drink our milk?
7-Why do we allow unfriendly and potentially dangerous foreigners who
live in the United States to freely demonstrate in the street and create
social and political chaos, when Americans living abroad are deprived from
similar rights and freedom of expression?
 Before
I do that, let me illustrate some funny and entertaining instances and
examples which frustrate, alienate, confuse and perhaps amuse foreigners,
when they look at the way we live, think, act and do business. Those
examples might look silly to us but, they caught the attention and
curiosity of foreigners, and as such, they might shed light on the
conception and preconception of foreigners about the “very essence” of
what constitutes the fabric of our life, beliefs and what we stand out
for. They are silly opinions, remarks and observations, but their
silliness and perhaps the limpidity of their substance are causing global
misunderstanding of the American way of life, American art, American
dignity and intensifying the lack of respect for all of us.
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WHAT CONFUSES OR AMAZES FOREIGNERS:
The list of examples is endless. It
contains approximately 365 items. We have no time or space to list of all
them. However, I will select the most entertaining ones:
1-A mall at the
Pentagon.
In almost 99,99% of foreign countries, you will never find a boutique or a
shop nearby a military high command post. They would not allow merchants
and shop keepers to open shops and boutiques in the vicinity of a
strategically positioned and located military centers. And most certainly,
not in the basement or a parking lot of a ministry of defense.
2-Americans' Passion
for football.
In America, football players are Gods! Role models, superstars,
millionaires, celebrities. In 92% of foreign countries, they are simply
“sport people”. Usually, in the majority of foreign countries, from France
to Guatemala and from Sudan to Austria, only uneducated people and low
class people become soccer (football) players. And they never enjoy a
global fame or become wealthy, unless they are really extraordinary with a
magic touch such as Pele of Brazil, Eusepio of Portugal, Bochkash of
Hungary, Maradona of Argentina and Bobby Moore of England. The rest of
them remain obscure and hard working middle class people.
3-High
percentage of divorced American women. Almost 89% of Europeans, 79% of
Latinos and 99% of Middle Easterners, Near Easterners and Arabs believe
that marriage has been desecrated in America. Every time they hear the
news about this star getting married to that star, they will automatically
tell you that they will divorce in a few months. Statistics show that 72%
of American women are or were divorced once upon a time. It is really
alarming.
4-Americans feel privileged to be invited to embassies receptions.
What foreigners dislike most is to be around politicians with big mouth,
media people known for their sarcasm and biased reporting and to eat and
dine in the company of politicians and foreign diplomats.
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5-Americans consumers
who prefer Japanese cars over American cars.
A famous European saying goes like this: “The happiest man on earth is
this man who has an American car and a Japanese wife, because none of them
would quit on him”. Foreigners still believe that American cars are
the best in the world. The fact that Americans rush to buy Japanese cars
indicate to foreigners that Yankees do not make sense.
6-The outfit of the
American professional woman, more particularly the executive one.
You know, the one with a coat/jacket, man’s couture cut and the boring
standardized fluffy tie. They hate it! They consider it a product without
originality and character.
7-Popularity of wearing
pantyhose without underwear.
Yet, boy-a-boy, Arab men love it, as long as, it is not their wives who
are wearing it.
8-American men’s
obsession with women’s big breast.
African, Asian and Arab men love to look at an American woman’s prosperous
breast. But, the cultured European men and more particularly the French
men consider the big breast of a woman as a sign of vulgarity. To them,
women with big breast are vulgar. This idea came to life at the dawn of
the Parisian haute couture and the beginning of the Parisian fashion
runway. The whole story began with Christian Dior and his “scrambled egg
breast” mannequins in Paris at the turn of the century.
9- American women intense
interest in breast enhancement.
We will not talk about that. We already know what they are talking about.
Nevertheless, there is a lot of hypocrisy in their statements, for their
biggest and favorite stars had a “big bazooka breast” like Silvana Mangano,
Rosanna Podesta, Sophia Loren, Ursula Andress, etc……But, it is quite
accurate to say that, the most “respected” and talented foreign stars had
an “intellectual breast”, meaning regular size, such as Marina Vlady,
Simone Signoret (when she was young), Ingrid Bergman, Anouk Aime, Danielle
Darrieux, etc…
10-Taking out the trash as
the married man’s responsibility.
This, trashes them out completely. But, their wives like it!
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