Joy,  that's what some people call "cultural Imperialism". I just  
call it good old American Naivet� .

  The expectation that "everyone should be just like us, think just  
like us" is a quality that is both humorous and annoying to the rest  
of the people of the world.

On 7-Apr-06, at 2:21 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

> Joy Hecht wrote:
>
>> The weird thing is, I took a photo around two weeks ago, here in  
>> Malawi, of
>> a rainbow ending in front of trees - the other end was in the  
>> middle of a
>> road, and I have a picture with a car driving through it. (Mine  
>> are nothing
>> as good as the ones on that website, though.)
>>
>> I'd never seen a rainbow end in front of anything before!
>>
>> And of course no pot of gold.  The funny thing is that Malawians  
>> don't have
>> the idea that there's a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.   
>> When I've
>> shown my photo to expats here they all ask about the pot of gold,  
>> and the
>> Malawians all look kind of blank because they don't know what we  
>> mean.
>>
>> It's funny, the kinds of cultural differences you'd never think of  
>> if you
>> didn't come across them by chance.
>>
>>
>>
>> Joy
>>
>> ****************************************************************
>> Joy Hecht
>> and Matilda, 1989 Burgundy Vanagon
>>
>> For musings about life and the vanadventures:
>> http://www.joyhecht.net