Thanks Lorelei - I am very glad that people can talk about these issues. For those of us outside the US but still within the 10% of the world's population who enjoy the freedoms of liberal democracy, we should not presume that the 90% majority wish to be told that we know everything. Their established cultures affect very much their habits and yes you can then generalise. I wouldn't want to be a hassidic wife, but then if I was perhaps I wouldn't mind.

Generalisations are a fair starting point for discussion. The US is very difficult though because you have so many cultures and attitudes on how they are maintained/integrated.

In Europe we all presume that you are all like the people on Jerry Springer and the Simpsons. But then you can generalise about different states. I'm not sure people from Tennessee are too happy about what the new englanders say about them?

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