<p>smurfgirl -</p>
<p>
[quote]
Actually, I don't watch Laguna Beach and The OC so I'm sorry but you're wrong. Those types of shows make my IQ drop 15 points. Also, I don't associate with those types of people since the people I hang around with believe in the same ideals as me. Many older adults have a ton of respect for the way I live my life, and I really don't care what your opinion is of me and how I live my life.
[/quote]
</p>
<p>Obviously, by virtue of the fact that you are aware of these shows and "Girls Gone Wild" indicates that your viewpoint has been influenced by such media images.</p>
<p>And if Americans girls were all or predominantly like you generalized - how in ever were you able to find people who have the same ideals as yourself?</p>
<p>My opinion wasn't about how you lived your life (why should I care about that?) - but your rather superficial generalization about American girls.</p>
<p>
[quote]
Obviously if you think girls here are that innocent, you haven't experienced college life or you're living under a rock and haven't seen the myspace and facebook pictures. (I've seen 14 year old girls pose in their bra and underwear.) Granted, NOT ALL girls are like this, but girls like me who do not underage drink, wear revealing clothes, have sex with random guys, lie to their parents and are in college (and are basically innocent to boot) are a rarity here.
[/quote]
</p>
<p>Right - and myspace and facebook are totally representative of life in America.</p>
<p>It's not like girls (and guys) in Europe, Asia and Latin America don't also do all of the things you describe about American girls.</p>
<p>In England, women are known for tossing quite a few pints and staggering home after the bars close (with time spent upchucking on the sidewalk being not uncommon); in Scandinavia, women are less inhibited about casual sex (sex before marriage); in Ibiza and other Mediterranean resorts, women are known to get quite sloshed and the mode of dress on the beach is to go topless; in many parts of Latin America, women wear almost nothing on the beaches; in Japan, schoolgirls have been known to prostitute themselves for high-end handbags; in the urban centers of China, relationships/sex before marriage has become accepted as the norm.</p>
<p>And of course there are plenty of women/girls from these places who do not fit these generalizations, but that is also true for here as well.</p>
<p>It seems to me that YOU are one that has been living under a rock.</p>
<p>
[quote]
Suweet! I'd take a bride that I couldn't talk to over a woman that talks too much any day.
[/quote]
</p>
<p>Just b/c a foreigner can't speak English (and many can) doesn't mean they can't/won't talk in their native language (and some of the languages can be shrill to the Western ear).</p>