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   From: lcubbison@earthlink.net   
      
   "Rastus"  wrote in message   
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   >> Certainly, the stereotype of the loud American girl with attitude in   
   >> anime is one that often seems alien to me. I'm fairly soft-spoken myself.   
   >> While I see a few loud girls among my students, they're out-numbered by   
   >> the quiet types.   
   >   
   > Don't forget about relativity. A quiet type in the US may not be a quiet   
   > type in other countries.   
   >   
   And women from one part of the US may be quite different from women from   
   another region. I've observed that white southern women who aren't   
   purposefully channelling Scarlett O'Hara tend to be fairly quiet. New   
   Yorkers tend to be the loudest.   
      
   laurie   
      
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