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Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 4:48
AM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: National
Geographic Quiz
--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Karolis B." <kbajoraz@y...> wrote:
> One more
encounter with American cluelessness today. I
wanted to cash
> a
check form Canary Islands. The banker failed to understand
the
>
difference between dollars and euros as different currencies.
karolis
you need a foreign exchange bank for that kind of
transaction
taking it to an ordinary commercial bank is just as
pointless as
taking it to a food bank or a blood bank
but in
general i think gratuitous bashing of yanks or any other
peoples is
foolish too
no matter how seemingly clueless some of us or them may
be
the national geographics society performs this hand wringing
ritual every year or so
to drum up interest &
subscriptions
& wallow in their own self importance
it is
entirely predictable of them to do this
& of course yanks generally
are just as out of touch as they say
wouldnt you be if everyone
accepted your money & spoke your
language & ate your hamburgers
etc
but to continue extrapolating & piling up anecdotal
confirmations
& stereotypical presumptions from these
data
well
you wild & crazy guys are free to compound the folly as
much as
you like
but cluelessness is all that any of it is
A
few
> weeks ago I had an American tell me she wouldn't want to live
in
> Canada because the dollar is so low there! (1USD=1.5CAD or
smthg).
> This summer this American guy in a Gatwick Express train
was amazed
> at how in Germany he used to get more "German dollars"
when he
> exchanged the American ones there, so it's good, he got
more
buying
> power!, but then he thought of it and added that the
things were
> also "twice as expensive". Canada runs an agressive
advertisement
> campaign in American travel magazines. One loose
qoute
would be "you
> will get $150 for $100 here, when you
exchange!". Try saying
"you
> will get 160 pounds for 100 euros!!!"
in a european travel ad
like it
> was something exciting :))) btw,
what does that tell us of the
> Candians's views of Americans?
;)
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