(The following is slightly tongue-in-cheek, so spare me the aggrieved comments.) Why do so many American travelers feel the need to denigrate their own country? "I'm sorry, I'm just a dumb American, I don't speak your language or understand your culture." Translation: "I'm sorry, American's are just a bunch of beer drinking rednecks who watch NASCAR all day. Not ME, of course, I speak 3 languages (not yours) and am highly civilized. But for the rest of them, I deeply apologize." Now, I am not exactly a world traveler (Canada, Mexico, Italy, Jordan, Israel, and the Caribbean), but I do live in a city that allows me to observe visitors and immigrants from every corner of the earth, and here is what I see: LANGUAGE: Foreigners learn English, plain and simple. No one need apologize for
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