[Iris7]

Rereading my reply I fear I have made an impression I didn't intend. The "don't get a swelled head" refers mostly to my own childhood years, about half spent living in East Asia or growing up with Asians in Hawaii. A daunting experience! Eye opening! I still to this day find almost all Americans provincial, with no understanding of the world and their place in it.

I remember with affection the culture shock experienced by other GIs when they first experienced East Asia. They meant well, but were uniformly lost children far from home.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bump!

[subterfuge]

"I still to this day find almost all Americans provincial, with no understanding of the world and their place in it.
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So are you saying the masses in China etc., have a great understanding of the world and their place in it?