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Re: Americans Can't Drive in the Rain?



In article <43d264$ibd@nnrp.ucs.ubc.ca>,
Ryan Rahim <rahimr@unixg.ubc.ca> wrote:
>
>Well, why didn't you say, "It seems to me that whenever it rains, 
>Californians can't handle it because they're used to dry weather."?
>
>You cannot extrapolate your frog-in-the-well experiences to cover all 
>Americans living in Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota, Virginia, Minnesota etc.
>
>No.  They need to take lessons on how to stop generalizing.

No.  YOU need to take lessons on how to stop nitpicking.

It's interesting that many people (yourself included) have said that
"Americans can't drive."  Period.  But you choose to cling onto my
statement that Americans can't drive in the rain.

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