ian wrote on Dec 30
th, 2014 at 4:14pm:
I have travelled to the US and I love these people and their culture. Never saw a firearm and found the vast majority unfailingly polite and helpful. They have enormous social issues, so do we. One thing I noticed was the manners on the people, I was out on the street at night on one of thier biggest holidays of the year, full of young people drinking, having a good time, no fights, no aggression, some young males drunk out of thier brains bumped me by mistake, immediately apologised. Sorry sir they all said and were on their way, friends said to me, have a nice evening. You wouldnt get that here, it would have been on. Im an ugly looking character, still quite a big social difference in my opinion.
Americans, I have found, are really overly apologetic by Aussie standards. I presume it is the Religious upbringing that doesn't occur in Australia.
NOBODY in Australia calls anyone "sir" (not even to an aboriginal with a gun ... Joke Joyce).
Americans are awfully patriotic too ... we Aussies are as well but just not so much into flying the flag.