Re: CHAT: Ability of Americans & Europeans to locate each others cities (was Re: The [+foreign] attribute)

 --- Thomas R. Wier skrzypszy:

> My friend once put it this way, teasingly: for Europeans, there
> are really only three, perhaps four, U.S. States with salient,
> individual cultures and characteristics:  New York (cultured
> and worldly), California (innovative and laid-back), Texas
> (ignorant, gun-toting, with fascist tendencies), and perhaps
> Florida ("sunny" dispositions and problems with voting systems).
> All others fall into the "Here Be Dragons" category.
I think you might - hesitantly - add Massachusetts to the list, known here for
being a relatively European (and therefore relatively civilized) state.
Chicago is very renowned for being the world's mafia capital, but nobody here
has every heard of Illinois. And rest is mainly the territory of cowboys and
injuns - you better won't go there unless you don't mind being scalped!

I guess our image of America has been influenced a bit too much by shows like
Miami Vice, the A-Team, and the Dukes of Hazzard.

Jan

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