Tuesday, May 11, 2010

lost in translation

This made me laugh: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/05/03/world/asia/20100503_CHINGLISH.html#

It's interesting how foreigners view Americans. And vice versa.

Fanny, who is from France, has a notion that New York City girls (not American in general because girls from Boston weren't like this) give men all the power. They are too sexually aggressive and don't allow men to chase them. I thought that was true in a sense. However, I don't agree that smiling at someone you find attractive means that you're willing to sleep with him that night, which is the case in France. How will he know you're into him? Nacho and Irineu, who are from Spain, say that this is just a French thing and that in their country, they don't think that is necessarily true.(Boys, fyi, the Spanish way of picking up girls courtesy of Nacho: http://www.terra.es/personal/mahorna/bromas/manual.htm)

I love hearing what they have to say.

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