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It really does emphasise the urban legend/fact that if it's not about the USA, Americans are as ignorant as a pet rock. Sad really.
Well Deano for seven years in Vail, CO we used to welcome 150 Australian and Kiwi workers to work for us for the winter season. Most had their view and understanding of America based on watching Oprah or CSI on TV and were completely unprepared for what America was actually like.
So I wouldn't call it ignorance, I'd say more uneducated or uninformed. And certainly someone asking about it isn't ignorance. And ignorant person is someone that doesn't ask questions or learn.
People from other countries forget the USA is a very large country with nearly the population of Europe with 306 million people and 50 individual states. It's hard enough keeping up with your own state, not to mention what is happening in the other 49 states on a daily basis. Do English or the French know what is happening on a daily basis in Poland or Greece? No I reckon not.
Traveling around Australia I have met many people that haven't even traveled to another Australian state much less overseas. Are those people ignorant?
Vichel, you always say just what I want to say, only more articulately. The OP is interested enough to want to find out more, and knows enough to know what he doesnt know....
Well Deano for seven years in Vail, CO we used to welcome 150 Australian and Kiwi workers to work for us for the winter season. Most had their view and understanding of America based on watching Oprah or CSI on TV and were completely unprepared for what America was actually like.
So I wouldn't call it ignorance, I'd say more uneducated or uninformed. And certainly someone asking about it isn't ignorance. And ignorant person is someone that doesn't ask questions or learn.
People from other countries forget the USA is a very large country with nearly the population of Europe with 306 million people and 50 individual states. It's hard enough keeping up with your own state, not to mention what is happening in the other 49 states on a daily basis. Do English or the French know what is happening on a daily basis in Poland or Greece? No I reckon not.
Traveling around Australia I have met many people that haven't even traveled to another Australian state much less overseas. Are those people ignorant?
Come on. You've got to admit that not knowing that if it's winter in the northern hemisphere then it's summer in the southern is pretty much primary school stuff that you learn about so early on in your life.
Come on. You've got to admit that not knowing that if it's winter in the northern hemisphere then it's summer in the southern is pretty much primary school stuff that you learn about so early on in your life.
Well go back and read what the OP originally posted:
Right now, in the United States and in the rest of the Northern Hemisphere, it's winter, of course and in the Southern Hemisphere, it's summer. So that means you guys experience Christmas in the summer, rather than the winter.
What is that like? You guys don't experience white Christmases or white Thanksgivings.
I don't see anything about the OP not knowing it wasn't summer in the southern hemisphere while we have winter up north.
The best way to explain in to him is tell him to pretend he is in Miami for Christmas.. or Honolulu..
that is what Aussie Christmas can be like.. warm and sunny!
Melbourne had a white Christmas in 2006. It hosed down the hail first thing christmas morning, and it was very cold, with 14C/57F as the high that day, the coldest christmas day on record. The ground was covered in hail, making it look like snow and the temp only enhanced the effect.
Pretty much every christmas for the last 5 or so years has been marred by crap weather, with overcast and temps around 19-21C / 67-70F. New Years on the other hand has seen extreme temps for the last few years, as high as 35C/95F as the clock hits midnight!
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I'm actually stupefied by this whole thread. lol
It really does emphasise the urban legend/fact that if it's not about the USA, Americans are as ignorant as a pet rock. Sad really.
First it's me, now the Americans. Go away NOW please.
1. Melbourne had a white Christmas in 2006. It hosed down the hail first thing christmas morning, and it was very cold, with 14C/57F as the high that day, the coldest christmas day on record. The ground was covered in hail, making it look like snow and the temp only enhanced the effect.
2.First it's me, now the Americans. Go away NOW please.
1. Here in New Hampshire, 14/57 is shorts and a light jumper weather. Back in Adelaide I'd have on my winter coat!
2. LOL. Its so cliche to make fun of Americans. Yawn.
Come on. You've got to admit that not knowing that if it's winter in the northern hemisphere then it's summer in the southern is pretty much primary school stuff that you learn about so early on in your life.
Believe me, I've heard my share of ignorant comments from Aussies when I lived there, the difference is I used my brains and did not jump to making generalizations about an entire country...
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