Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!decwrl!decvax!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!gmf From: gmf@uvacs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Americans Message-ID: <1439@uvacs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 13-Aug-84 21:02:54 EDT Article-I.D.: uvacs.1439 Posted: Mon Aug 13 21:02:54 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Aug-84 03:24:04 EDT Lines: 8 The stuff about Americans not knowing much about other countries reminds me of the time I was introduced to a British mathematician in New Zealand. The introducer remarked that I was from the U.S. Without a pause, the introducee said, "I find people from the U.S. so insular, don't you?" I had to admit he was right. Gordon Fisher