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> I am going to France this summer to watch the tour. If I were to wea this jersey Nashbar is
> selling, do you think I would make some folks angry?
Just treat the ppl as the regular, dignified human beans you, I and they are, and you'll be okay.
Don't condescendingly call everybody "Gar-Sawn", or chug-a-lug the wine. Show a little appreciation.
Smile a lot, and charm them with that open-faced, boyish, American friendliness. Then, at worst,
they'll regard your jersey with mild bemusement, if at all. Most likely, you'd just surprise 'em
with your unexpected niceness.
Okay, I guess I now sound like a Canadian sucking-up to Americans. But I've lived awhile, and I've
seen what I've seen. And from what I've experienced, Americans are a very friendly, out-going and
people-loving bunch of people ... albeit in a rather rough-cut, down-to-earth, yet charming way.
IMO though, the American Gov't is so Machiavellian, it might as well be the Hudson Bay Company, or
the Canadian Parliament.
But governments are no indicator of the qualities of the people pver which they rule. I hope not
anyways, or else Canadians would be a bunch of close-minded, closed-eyed, money-grubbing,
back-stabbing, gutless sheep who don't know whether to **** or go blind.
Don't think about governments. Just think about *people*, who are pretty much the same all over the
world, regardless of their governments.
So, wear your jersey, and be the nice guy you are.
Make friends. Maybe buy 'em some Miller Genuine Drafts.
cheers, Tom
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