A few weeks ago, I was shopping at the grocery store and saw a guy. I did a double-take, trying to determine what it was about him that looked... different. Then I heard him speak and he was American. I realized what I noticed was his "American-ness." It sounds weird, I know, and something I would not have thought about. It was the way he was dressed, styled his hair, carried himself. Hard to describe I guess.
Fast forward a few weeks. Jeff, Avery and I were at the playground near our house and we heard a little girl say this to her dad after we let them take over the seesaw, "That man was so American wasn't he Dad?" So I wonder, is being so American a bad thing to the Aussies? I wonder if what they see as being American-looking is the same thing I saw in the store. Food for thought.
