Sunday 3 April 2011

Typical Americans

When I think of what is typical Amercan, I think of a lot of things, such as :
  • Gold diggers. In old days people from European came to America to start a new live and become rich.Some of them went to the mountains and started digging for gold.
  • Big farms with cowboys. Many farms have bigs pastures and the farm owner hires cowboys to protect the livestock .
  • Big and fast cars. In America they have their own car brands called Ford and cadillac...  Many Americans often drives big cars like SUV and offroad cars. They are very proud of a populare car sport called NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing).
  • Yellow school busses. The busses have an old shaped form and are always yellow. You get an penalty if you taking a drive pass when the bus are loading passengers.
  • Celebrating days. The Americans are keen on celebrating traditional days like thanksgiving, halloween, 4th of July ( National Day.)
  • American sports. Their national sport is American football but basketball and icehockey are also populare sports.
  • Big film industry. In Hollywood are they creating the biggest and most expensive films in the world. The richest actors live in this area. Every year the film industy celebrate with Oscar nomination.
  • Religious and shareity. I have an understanding that the American people are very religious and will share goodness with other people. The President always say in his speaches : " God bless you all ", and there are many sharity organinsations who help sick and poor people. The difference between rich and poor people in the American society are very huge. 
  • Space shuttle. As the only country in the world the Americans developed the space shuttle. They are leading on the space tecnology and the first man on the moon was an American.
  • McDonals/BurgerKing. America is known to have many hamburger shops and large stakes.

3 comments:

  1. You have really been creative in your associations! I like that you mention the yellow school buses and gold digging. About the charity: don't you feel that Norwegians are just as caring as Americans? I think many Norwegians donate a lot of money when there are disasters, like the recent earthquake in Japan. Don't you agree?

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  2. Yes I agree on that. I think we are donating a lot of money to victms of earth quakes, war and stuff like that. I have seen on the news of collection box bearer asks if you will donate money to poor people or victms of disatsers. I think we are very good at this.

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  3. Typical Norwegian then :) I read that Norway also supports developing countries (u-land) more than other European countries do. Way to go Norway!!

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