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Lilith
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Registered: Nov 2000
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| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Ha!
For a long time rich Americans would try to learn French and try to imitate British upper class manners. American "high culture" is nearly all borrowed. |
In an open and transparent world where travel is easy it's not surprising that bits of other cultures tend to mingle and the air of mystery isn't quite pronounced. It's not always apparent but everyone borrows something from one another at some cultural level, it's just obvious when it's done badly.
If it matters any, the quasi-aristocracy of Australia is also quite laughable, but in a different way to their US counterparts 
Having met a few of either, the Australians tend to just be crude and blunt, whereas the Americans are just rude and lack manners.
There's four rules of polite social interaction with people you don't know well, which shouldn't be discussed-
Politics
Money
Sex
Religion
Meet an American Aristocrat and you'll get told flat out how bad their partner is in bed so they've taken a mistress, how rich they are and how much money they make (usually while showing off their fancy toys and clothes in crass detail). Tell you how they're voting Dem/Rep and know/related to a senator and in hushed tones how the jews are really to blame for most everything and black people need to be put in their place.
Australians are funny, think of sticking a pig in a dress.
It's going to be a nice dress, but on a pig it's going to stick out anywhere and still, just a pig. They'll awkwardly try to be sociable and polite up to a point before realising they're sticking out like they don't belong. So they'll hook into the nearest bottle of Chardonnay and hope that by being drunk, loud and lively, someone will think they're at least lovable and a lack of graces can be attributed to just being drunk... as well as hiding any insecurities about not fitting in.
| quote: | But nobody can beat us as exporters of low grade shlock. |
Well the rest of the world gobbled it up and still wants more, so it's hardly a cultural failure! 
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Oct-27-2007 22:36
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