Subject: Re: National Geographic Quiz<br/>
Date: Nov 24, 2002 @ 03:17<br/>
Author: Karolis B. (&quot;Karolis B.&quot; &lt;kbajoraz@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-2074508933"><blockquote><span title="ireply">&gt; you need a foreign exchange bank for that kind of transaction<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; taking it to an ordinary commercial bank is just as pointless as <br/>
&gt; taking it to a food bank or a blood bank<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; but in general i think gratuitous bashing of yanks or any other <br/>
&gt; peoples is foolish too<br/>
&gt; no matter how seemingly clueless some of us or them may be<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>they said they would do it. but that&#39;s not the point at all. <br/>
The point is that your average American doesn&#39;t understand the <br/>
concept of currency. Furthermore, some of those that do travel to <br/>
Canada for example, think that they actually get more money when they <br/>
exchange. That&#39;s because Canada happens to call its <br/>
currency &quot;dollar&quot;. To a usual American &quot;money&quot; and &quot;dollar&quot; are <br/>
synonims. And that&#39;s ridiculous! It is a statement of facts, and if <br/>
you like call it &quot;bashing&quot; if you will. I bet you could find all <br/>
sorts if ridiculous things about all sorts of nations, and just <br/>
pointing that out doesn&#39;t mean despising the nation or anything.<br/>
<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; the national geographics society performs this hand wringing <br/>
&gt; ritual every year or so <br/>
&gt; to drum up interest & subscriptions<br/>
&gt; & wallow in their own self importance<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>so you&#39;re syaing that the people are gonna go like &quot;omg! I don&#39;t know <br/>
where Iraq is either&quot; and go subscribe to NatGeo? I would say that if <br/>
they don&#39;t know where Iraq is they don&#39;t care about it either. <br/>
 <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; it is entirely predictable of them to do this<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; & of course yanks generally are just as out of touch as they say<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; wouldnt you be if everyone accepted your money & spoke your <br/>
&gt; language & ate your hamburgers etc<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>yet though &quot;everyone accepts USD&quot;, speaks English an supposedly eats <br/>
hamburgers, there are those &quot;yanks&quot; that understand currencies, speak <br/>
different languages, and don&#39;t invite their foreign friends to <br/>
McDonald&#39;s. How is that so? And what resons do for example Europeans <br/>
have to be intersted in abroad that Americans don&#39;t?<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; but to continue extrapolating & piling up anecdotal confirmations <br/>
&gt; & stereotypical presumptions from these data<br/>
&gt; well<br/>
&gt; you wild & crazy guys are free to compound the folly as much as <br/>
&gt; you like<br/>
&gt; but cluelessness is all that any of it is<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>well, I thought it was only I, so no need for &quot;you...guys&quot;-wide <br/>
defence yet;)</div>