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   From: fubar-removeme@uq.net.au   
      
   > 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.   
      
   I share the bus each morning and afternoon with students from all over the   
   world (seems to be more international students than national) and it is   
   interesting watching the interactions between people of different cultures.   
   Seeing the look on the faces of the mouse-quiet Malaysian girls in   
   headscarves is comical when at the next stop a bunch of American students   
   hop on with booming voices trying to talk over each other.   
      
   It isn't just language either, for example Australians have one of the   
   biggest personal spaces in the world, and when they travel to Asia they tend   
   to become very uncomfortable about everyone "invading their personal space".   
   It is quite humourous to see a Aussie being "chased" around by a Javanese   
   person for example (Javanese person steps close, Aussie steps back, repeat).   
      
   Seeing the look on a Japanese person's face when a loud Chinese is around   
   (or especially if they hawk up a loogy and spit it out) is pure gold as   
   well.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)