From:	Gurth <jweste%smtp@******.HZEELAND.NL>
Subject:	Re: A technical question: - Reply
Date:	Thu, 21 Apr 1994 12:39:43 +0200

>NightOwl, Chill out..do you know how many times I was asked what country
>I lived in back in the US, while I was living overseas in europe?? more
>than I can count..Not everyone has all that good a grasp of
>geography..The way I would handle it was tell whoever had asked that the
>State I am from is Texas...and in this was I corrected the person
>without scolding them for their lack of knowledge....

My guess is that those people got the words "country" and "state"
mixed
up. IMO, states are a pretty foreign concept to many Europeans. Plus,
from what I've seen and read, the average European knows more about
geography than the average American. No offense or anything :+)



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+ Gurth + "Ik kom u vrede en geluk brengen." +
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