Los estereotipos sobre EEUU

Lo shanqui son una manga de grasas ignorantes, fundamentalistas religiosos, que nadie se explica cómo representan el mayor mercado de la moda del mundo, primeros lejos en producción científica y tecnológica y, cuando le conviene a los antinorteamericanos, materialistas fanáticos, amantes del dinero.

A pesar de vivir a metros de la frontera, acá pasa exactamente lo mismo. Salvo cuando se trata de gente un poco más educada y/o que viajó con alguna frecuencia a EEUU, están convencidos de que son unos brutos que les llevan décadas de atraso:

I did a radio show with a German journalist a while back, whose response to my Tea Party commentary was to ask if I had a passport. She was surprised to hear that I lived in Germany as a child while my dad taught at Heidelberg. She was surprised because — despite the fact that she possessed a German passport and was living in the United States — she entertained uninformed cardboard stereotypes of Americans. So travel clearly hadn’t broadened her. It’s also worth noting that while the European upper-class travels a lot, middle- and lower-class Europeans travel less even within their own countries. Meanwhile, many red-state Americans travel all over the world via military service or missionary work.