The "if your a foriegner ask anything about america thread!"

[Sidhe]

I won't be able to make friends.

I'm sorry.

see teens are idiots Chukchi if you can make friends here you can make friends anywhere, you need another birthday thread, to snap you out of you cyclical self defeatism. Happy Birthday Chukchi.

 

[Truronian]

Cutlery ... we use a shovel. As some side depends on if it is formal or informal, which means is it a $10 meal or a $100 meal? In most cases no we don't, but what if we did, it's all going to the same place anyway.

Yeah, if anything its the Brits who are kooky for dirtying more dishes. Still I find the concept of multiusage spoons strange and disturbing.

 

[Gladi]

Yeah, if anything its the Brits who are kooky for dirtying more dishes. Still I find the concept of multiusage spoons strange and disturbing.

So do You use dessert fork? Fish knife? Do you have knife for bread, knife for meat, knife for fish, knife vegetables...

Nope just common students, my school has an exchange programme and the western students are staying with families (unlike Greeks who pay for hotels) and evey year they are amazed that host family has washing machine or Tv :crazyeyes:

 

[Dionysius]

they could at least tell me that Czechoslovakia is in Eastern Europe.

Czech republic and Slovakia are the ones you mean.

 

[Sidhe]

So do You use dessert fork? Fish knife? Do you have knife for bread, knife for meat, knife for fish, knife vegetables...

Personally if I'm eating a prawn cocktail I use the fork, after licking it clean, with the curry I take that fork and a new spoon eat the curry, then lick the spoon and use it for the Cheese cake, but then I am odd

What is this 1892 and what are we Monsieur le aristo

You only bring out the silverware if you have guests and there's always that embarassing ettiquette moment when someone uses the main meal fork to eat the starter, oh gosh, I'm going to feint!

IIRC start from the outside and move in, or do what I do and just spoon food into my oversized mouth, in a fashion reminiscent of a dog eating it's last meal.

Me eat now 'til belly full, brrgh arggh!

 

[Truronian]

So do You use dessert fork? Fish knife? Do you have knife for bread, knife for meat, knife for fish, knife vegetables...

Nope just common students, my school has an exchange programme and the western students are staying with families (unlike Greeks who pay for hotels) and evey year they are amazed that host family has washing machine or Tv :crazyeyes:

Nah, multiusage probably wasn't the best term.

I've always used different spoons/forks/knives (of the same type) for different courses, which meant that when I went to America a couple years ago and was expected to use the same fork I had eaten chicken with to eat dessert I found it strange... In retrospect it makes sense (fewer dishes), its just a bad case of cultural snobbery on my part

 

[Leatherneck]

So do You use dessert fork? Fish knife? Do you have knife for bread, knife for meat, knife for fish, knife vegetables...

Nope just common students, my school has an exchange programme and the western students are staying with families (unlike Greeks who pay for hotels) and evey year they are amazed that host family has washing machine or Tv :crazyeyes:

Why? I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume you have computers and internet too.

When I was in some parts of Russia I was a bit surprised at how backwards they were, this has been a few years ago. So they may have modernized a bit by now.

 

[CaptainF]

About the americans are ignorant about geography tid-bit.

I really dont know on average if they are. Id say most kids and teenagers are not as informed.

But I personally dont know anyone whos stupid enough that they couldnt locate norway on the map. Maybe a typical 12 year old couldnt, but jokes aside this issue is more of a stereotype then a reality.

I'll have to cry bullfeathers on that one.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

As far as geography, I can't speak for all Americans but I can locate probably 95% of the countries of the world on a map, and most of their capitals. But honestly, there is more important knowledge out there.

 

[Gladi]

Personally if I'm eating a prawn cocktail I use the fork, after licking it clean, with the curry I take that fork and a new spoon eat the curry, then lick the spoon and use it for the Cheese cake, but then I am odd

What is this 1892 and what are we Monsieur le aristo

You only bring out the silverware if you have guests and there's always that embarassing ettiquette moment when someone uses the main meal fork to eat the starter, oh gosh, I'm going to feint!

IIRC start from the outside and move in, or do what I do and just spoon food into my oversized mouth, in a fashion reminiscent of a dog eating it's last meal.

Me eat now 'til belly full, brrgh arggh!

Actually some people enjoy finer things in life like silverware, china, crystal and stuff. Though we don't have safe in flat so keep our silverware in bank (as it silverware).

Truronian- really? I was in four families and did not experience that. (though my first three ate "finger-food" only)

Leatherneck- because we Eastern Barbarians! We are cave-dwelling communists, of course! And yes there is poverty in many a rural region . But I have met several people who believed world started with WWII and there is nothing in East save for concrete high-rises, poverty and Russian Mafia .

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

I have one mixing spoon and one pot that I use for everything I cook. Thus I have to wash it out between meals.

 

[Leatherneck]

I'll have to cry bullfeathers on that one.

They did a survey were a lot of High School kids couldn't even find some states. Friggin sad ... I came home and got a map and started quizzing my kids as to where places are at. Now they are younger but at least knew where a lot of places where. So now I quiz them from time to time.
America is a big place and a lot people live there whole life and never leave the country .. not even going to Cananda. Hell I know some that rarely get more than a few 100 miles from where they are born.
When places are talked about on the news I ask my kids "Where is that on the planet? Show me." At least I know my kids will pass the survey. That the problem to many people think the schools will teach them all they need to know.
Not happening.

 

[Sidhe]

Good work Leatherhead, teaching people about this crazy panet is the best way to get them interested in something that's not in their back yard. Go a little further and teach them the history too and your the perfect parent, but only if they're interested. I learnt history, classical history and geography at school, but I learnt a hell of alot more by studying off my own back, I once learned all the capitals in the world just to say I had done it(people were impressed, I got a kick out of naming them all under pressure) I then tried to find out why these capitals were called what they were, ignorance is stupidity, knowledge is bliss

 

[Leatherneck]

Leatherneck- because we Eastern Barbarians! We are cave-dwelling communists, of course! And yes there is poverty in many a rural region . But I have met several people who believed world started with WWII and there is nothing in East save for concrete high-rises, poverty and Russian Mafia .

Oh I know LOL ...
Most places where right up to date with the reast of the world but in the Russian frontier so to speak it was a backwards as one might find the rural parts of the USA ... not backwards by opression but by choice. Take the Amish... please. LOL

 

[Gladi]

Czech republic and Slovakia are the ones you mean.

Oy forgot you there, how about looking at my loc? And besides your sentece is faulty, it is either Czechia and Slovakia or Czech Republic and Slovak Republic (or Czech and Slovak republics, but that can cause confusion with Czech and Slovak Federated Republic).

 

[Leatherneck]

snip:

ignorance is stupidity, knowledge is bliss

Very true, I annoy my kids with statements like "Look it up." and "Go find out, you will not remember if I tell you, you will if you find it yourself."

Really annoys them .... <insert evil laugh>

 

[Gladi]

Oh I know LOL ...
Most places where right up to date with the reast of the world but in the Russian frontier so to speak it was a backwards as one might find the rural parts of the USA ... not backwards by opression but by choice. Take the Amish... please. LOL

No! You will have to keep them!

Hmm that reminds me, how were vaccines and emergency health care setled with some of those "less mainstreamy" religions?

 

[Leatherneck]

No! You will have to keep them!

Hmm that reminds me, how were vaccines and emergency health care setled with some of those "less mainstreamy" religions?

Emergency health care is available to everyone, regardless if you can pay or not. Some private health care places can turn you away if they want, most won't. Public health care has to provide service by law, you get public money, you provide public service. Same for vaccines, kid have to have vaccines to go to public schools. Group like the Amish have their own schools, but I would think they would still vaccines.

 

[CaptainF]

They did a survey were a lot of High School kids couldn't even find some states. Friggin sad ... I came home and got a map and started quizzing my kids as to where places are at. Now they are younger but at least knew where a lot of places where. So now I quiz them from time to time.
America is a big place and a lot people live there whole life and never leave the country .. not even going to Cananda. Hell I know some that rarely get more than a few 100 miles from where they are born.
When places are talked about on the news I ask my kids "Where is that on the planet? Show me." At least I know my kids will pass the survey. That the problem to many people think the schools will teach them all they need to know.
Not happening.

My 7th Grade History, Geography and Social Studies teacher once told the class a funny story.

He was preparing the students for the upcoming quiz in which they were to fill in the names of countries on a blank world map-correctly.

A week before the test was to be given, he intentionally left out a false cheat sheet, which he intentionally designed to have errors. For example, in the space where the US is, he wrote Japan.

He planned for some moronic kid to steal the cheat sheet, and sure enough...

The entire class flunked the test.

That man was a great teacher.

 

[Leatherneck]

My 7th Grade History, Geography and Social Studies teacher once told the class a funny story.

He was preparing the students for the upcoming quiz in which they were to fill in the names of countries on a blank world map-correctly.

A week before the test was to be given, he intentionally left out a false cheat sheet, which he intentionally designed to have errors. For example, in the space where the US is, he wrote Japan.

He planned for some moronic kid to steal the cheat sheet, and sure enough...

The entire class flunked the test.

That man was a great teacher.

Excellent ...