I got this off another news list, thought it might spread some mid-week
cheer.
>>Cultural Differences Explained
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>>
>>Aussies: Dislike being mistaken for Pommies (Brits) when abroad.
>>Canadians: Are rather indignant about being mistaken for Americans when
>> abroad.
>>Americans: Encourage being mistaken for Canadians when abroad.
>>Brits: Can't possibly be mistaken for anyone else when abroad.
>>
>>Aussies: Believe you should look out for your mates.
>>Brits: Believe that you should look out for those people who belong
>> to your club.
>>Americans: Believe that people should look out for & take care of
>> themselves.
>>Canadians: Believe that that's the government's job.
>>
>>Aussies: Are extremely patriotic to their beer.
>>Americans: Are flag-waving, anthem-singing, and obsessively patriotic to
>> the point of blindness.
>>Canadians: Can't agree on the words to their anthem, when they can be
>> bothered to sing them.
>>Brits: Do not sing at all but prefer a large brass band to perform
>> the anthem.
>>
>>Americans: Spend most of their lives glued to the idiot box.
>>Canadians: Don't, but only because they can't get more American channels.
>>Brits: Pay a tax just so they can watch four channels.
>>Aussies: Export all their crappy programs, which no-one there watches,
>> to Britain, where everybody loves them.
>>
>>Americans: Will jabber on incessantly about football, baseball, and
>> basketball.
>>Brits: Will jabber on incessantly about cricket, soccer, and rugby.
>>Canadians: Will jabber on incessantly about hockey, hockey, hockey,
>> hockey, and how they beat the Americans twice, playing
baseball.
>>Aussies: Will jabber on incessantly about how they beat the Poms in
>> every sport they play them in.
>>
>>Americans: Spell words differently, but still call it "English".
>>Brits: Pronounce their words differently, but still call it "English".
>>Canadians: Spell like the Brits, pronounce like Americans.
>>Aussies: Add "G'day", "mate" and a heavy accent to everything they say
>> in an attempt to get laid.
>>
>>Brits: Shop at home and have goods imported because they live on an
>> island.
>>Aussies: Shop at home and have goods imported because they live on an
>> island.
>>Americans: Cross the southern border for cheap shopping, gas, & liquor
>> in a backwards country.
>>Canadians: Cross the southern border for cheap shopping, gas, & liquor
>> in a backwards country.
>>
>>Americans: Drink weak, pissy-tasting beer.
>>Canadians: Drink strong, pissy-tasting beer.
>>Brits: Drink warm, beery-tasting piss.
>>Aussies: Drink anything with alcohol in it.
>>
>>Americans: Seem to think that poverty & failure are morally suspect.
>>Canadians: Seem to believe that wealth and success are morally suspect.
>>Brits: Seem to believe that wealth, poverty, success and failure
>> are inherited things.
>>Aussies: Seem to think that none of this matters after several beers.
>>
>> Submitted by: Bruce Guthrie @ nmaa.org
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