XPost: rec.arts.anime.misc   
   From: ejanss@nospam.comcast.net   
      
   Captain Nerd wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>>While the "in your face" attitude of America's youth culture is definately   
   >>>>tiring, it would be just as absurd to catgeorize American women that way   
   >>>>as it would be for Nakajima to slander all men.   
   >>>   
   >>>Certainly, the stereotype of the loud American girl with attitude in anime   
   >>   
   >>Examples?  When I think back on the American girls in the ones I've   
   >>seen, they don't seem all that loud to me.   
   >   
   >   
   >    Well, "Fruits Basket" has Arisa Uotani, a member of a "Yankee" girl   
   >    gang.  She wasn't that loud, but definitely violent.   
      
   Sarah MacDougal--the "Psycho, but admittedly less so than Koalla Su"   
   girl from the last half of "Love Hina"--is presumed to be American,   
   because her last name starts with "Mac-" and she wears her baseball cap   
   backwards...   
      
   Can't remember whether Claudia LaSalle was supposed to be American,   
   apart from being shockingly outspoken, wisecracking, and sexy-forward   
   enough to jump into bed with Roy three times a week.   
      
   Derek Janssen   
   ejanss@comcast.net   
      
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