This is a high school sociology class and, yes, it is the gayest hour of my day, the way it's taught is as the Charmen Ultra of all soft-sciences. I think it's the teacher. And you wouldn't believe the douche bags who fall for the "loaded questions" TheCassidy brought up. You're totally right we get these all year!
What I meant by "lame that American's think that" was as an example of one of the many foreign perspectives I might get, and I wanted to make sure people would feel comfortable voicing such an opinion, but it definitely came out wrong. I also should have said "how this might differ from you as an individual." Without the "might" in there I can see how it seems like I assumed they were all wrong. My mistake, simply syntactical.
I wasn't being facetious at all when I said the thing about thinking we're super cool, cause we totally are. Earlier in the year the class talked about how a lot of students in Japan like to take trips to America to be "bad" or "get in trouble" because in Japan, being bad or a too individualistic is apparently looked upon most of the time with great resentment, and being in an environment where rebellion is more emphasized as "cool" is very refreshing for them.
In fact, I think the idea that Americans are super cool is perhaps more of a foreign concept that one to be found here on the home front.
Actually, I have a story about that
. I saw this in action last summer. These two smoking-hot Japanese foreign exchange students were staying in our town for a little while, their host family was really fucking boring. I went to a party with a friend hosted by their hostess, everyone there was a total loser and the foreigners were very bored. After flirting with them a little we asked if they wanted to go somewhere, and they immediately said yes. So we drove around at midnight in my 66 Volvo and later took a trip 30 or 40 minutes away in my friend's unregistered, uninsured 80s BMW (trouble, trouble 
). Before we left for Tacoma, Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody started playing, and as we returned, Queen's We Are the Champions started playing. It was 7am when we returned them and their host family got really, really pissed off. God, it was awesome. Anyway, I bring that up because I personally think Americans are totally the coolest, at least obviously to the Japanese, whose charming attempt at completely copying our culture sprung forth their unique and whacky neo-customs, am I right? Anyway, again apologies to all about my post. I definitely love the country I'm from and love the people we put out...well actually, my only critique of America is the people nowadays. There's the people who can't hear what the world's saying about us, and there's the people who are making too big a deal out of what other people think! The latter people make me much madder. If those people think that we don't respect the elderly then it must be true and we must be terrible terrible people, if those people value being in a group then we must be wrong to be individuals. One is like a jock in high school who thinks he's so great for no reason (the deaf), and the other's like that loser in school who cares too much about what other people think (the liberal bashing), and this is exactly what makes him the loser he is. This assignment to me ranks of both. Idealogue liberal bitching and self-centered conservativeness .
So I just need to clear up to C3PX and to everyone. I think we all pretty much agree and it's nice to find others like me
. You know how forums can be, you write like you speak, but the lack of inflection and voice can lead to misunderstandings.Yes this is the lamest class ever. But there's a neat assignment coming up where we study a specific culture or subculture. Guess what "community" I'll be featuring?