[Revolting cat!]

How many times have we heard (here also): "but people are the same everywhere!"? Take my word, this naive notion is uniquely American, folks. We feed such nonsense to our children from kindergarten through college and let them grow up to become naive women who marry foreign barbarians only to wake up in Riyadh wearing burkhas!

[ctonious]

How many times have we heard (here also): "but people are the same everywhere!"?

Indeed. In my travels, I've found that this is absolutely NOT true. However, as part of this story implies, my observance is that people from everywhere can be the same, in a particular somewhere.

[Don Myers]

"..."but people are the same everywhere!"? "

All people have the same basic needs, ie. food, shelter, whatever, but, they differ in their various belief systems and environment. And, these belief systems can be very different.