Right guys.  This is becoming a flame war.  Let's end it here as we are not adding to the sum total of human knowledge.  Calling people names - even if some will wear them as a badge of honour doesn't get us very far.

Terry, I'm afraid the onus is on you to write your Diary on the "American way" as you see it.  That is the right place for such a debate, and people who want to contribute to it can do so there.
 

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