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[Galleleo]

With superficial I mean that with most Americans that I met it doesn't go beyond: hey, how are you doing, how was your day? O really, that's nice.

Americans are nicer in the sense that most will say hey, how is it going, and that most Dutch people just walk by you with maybe just a nod of the head or something. But a lot of times if you do actually talk to someone in the Netherlands, it usually goes deeper and I noticed that with most Americans it stays rather superficial, except those who have an interest in international affairs or other countries.

Like in most of my classes when they found out I am Dutch, it was like, well that's cool, how is it going? Do you like it here so far? Well that's nice, but they didn't really wanna go further than that, I tried a whole bunch of times. So the Americans that I actually call my friends now consist of one guy who was originally born in Afghanistan and has been living in the US since he was roughly 8 (is American now), one girl that was born in Finland, moved to the US when she was 5 or 6 (also American now). Then a couple of Americans who play football (soccer, whatever) of which a couple are interested in studying abroad as well and a bunch of other people who are really interested in international stuff, one girl is going to China soon to study there for 6 months, another is going to Thailand to teach English.

That's what I meant with superficial.

Well, that and Panda.

Ow en Nycle, het klopt dat Muncie zelf een gat is, maar de Uni is wel tof hoor, daar is altijd wel veel te doen en wordt van alles georganiseerd. Ik ben misschien ook maar twee keer in Muncie zelf geweest.

[soup]

Jaloers


Ziet er leuk uit nycle, je ziet er ook anders uit dan vroeger.:grin:

[genocidal]

I'd say that's probably fair. It always seemed to me that yanks were a little more abrasive (like Dutch) than my people (southerners) but I suppose most Americans try to be fake-nice most of the time. I know I do because it makes life a lot easier when you don't have people taking offense at what you aren't doing all the time.

I'd probably also agree that most people you meet aren't going to want to get into an in-depth conversation with you (unless you're drinking). People in America are judged on what kind of shit they've got going on so beyond telling people what you do for a living, for fun, etc. there isn't a lot anybody cares to talk about. Politics and religion as topics of discussion are big faux pas, except perhaps in liberaland California where everyone agrees with each other and likes to suck each others' dicks about it.

[kthx]

I personally like bringing up politics while I am sitting at a bar with strangers, it is like a real life forum experience, except it is 75/25 that agree with me instead 25/75. Fun stuff either way.

[Ilya]

man i hate talking to people

[Xog]

De kerel is niet van Amerika, is hij van één of ander land Eurotrash dat op zijn vreselijke politieke geloven en feit wordt gebaseerd die hij te hoogst aan zich om aan het genieten van de van genoegens van overvloed denkt toe te laten. Faggots als dit denken dat wat zij eigenlijk doen iets betekent wanneer zij pussy milieudeskundigen beslissen te zijn wanneer bijna 50% van aardebevolking van het ontwikkelen van industrielanden zijn die industriële revoluties zullen hebben die ver degenen in Amerika en Europa overtreffen.

The guy is not America, is it any country Buck Toothed that are terrible political belief and fact is that he based most of it is to enjoy the pleasures of sexual intercourse intends to leave. Carburator as this thinking that what they actually do something when they mean feline environmental experts to decide where nearly 50% of world population of developing countries are industrial frenchies will have far those in America and Europe surpass.

[genocidal]

I personally like bringing up politics while I am sitting at a bar with strangers, it is like a real life forum experience, except it is 75/25 that agree with me instead 25/75. Fun stuff either way.

That's because you enjoy being an asshole where ever you go, apparently. One of my good friends is like that too (he's really conservative to boot, are you him?). It's funny sometimes but mostly annoying to hear his repetitive bickering with drunks in bars, all of whom have iron-clad opinions on everything.

[kthx]

It isn't really being an asshole, but if I am sitting at a bar after work, and there are no sports on TV, and I am just waiting for my burger or whatever I order while having a beer or two I generally make conversation with the person next to me. Lets face it, I really don't care about most peoples lives, so I choose a subject that is important to everyone, it makes sense to talk about things that everyone should know about. I am not going to start out a conversation with something like "hey how is your family doing, hows the wife" I mean, that would be weird.

Also I like to switch up talking about politics or glaring flaws with our culture such as our dependence on antidepressants and how it isn't healthy to never be depressed. Being depressed is part of living, you don't need drugs for it you just need to get the fuck over it honestly. There are plenty of gems like that to discuss.

[Galleleo]

Geno, did you know that Yanks is actually a Dutch word (well, not a Dutch word in that sense that we use it, but in the sense that the Dutch introduced it to America).

[gran guerrero]

When the colonies were emerging, New York was nothing but dutch immigrants.

[Pandagirl!]

Cedar Point, een megapretpark in het noorden van Ohio. Met 18 achtbanen de "achtbaanhoofdstad" van de wereld. Als je op Discovery soms van die documentaires over achtbanen ziet dan zijn ze meestal hier opgenomen. Dit pretpark SCHIJT op Disney in Parijs:

Well I can't quite tell what you're saying, but I'm hoping you're saying that Cedar Point is the shit, because it is.

[Galleleo]

When the colonies were emerging, New York was nothing but dutch immigrants.

New York was Dutch, so yeah, there were a lot of Dutch immigrants.

[Xog]

Doitchensnaggerliefenbougier.

I love makin up words.

[Fallen Angel]

Jeuj! Een eigen topic heulemaal voor ons zelf
Man, wat ben ik hier lang niet geweest.
Mooie foto's trouwens, hoewel ik moet zeggen dat de VS mij totaal niet aanspreekt als vakantiebestemming.

[Ilya]

kan ik je tieten alstublieft