Originally posted by peroon
Originally posted by Max
This is a good idea. If you find a way to visit and stay with an American family for awhile, you will get a good idea of how things really are. You will see they like to watch for baseball scores, but also basketball and American-style football. These are the biggest national sports. But we also watch closely other major sports like the world football championships, and the olympics, etc. You will discover many Americans watch too much junk TV. We have cable TV with at least 50 channels in most locations. Some people have well over a hundred channels to choose from. So there is no shortage of TV programming to watch. I like the nature channels, science, documentaries, and movies for TV. But you can also find a lot of what seems like junk to me... simply comedy programs with content not as good as the quality of the 3 stooges (my opinion).
If you stay in the USA for awhile, you will also have a chance to see how the average American spends their time during a day and through the week. You will see what kind of leisure time activities they choose, etc. I think you will find it is not too much different than other places in the world that have similar degree of civilization. But you will also see there are parts in every large USA city where the customs of the old country are still kept. ie: any large city has a place called "little Italy" where a lot of Italians live and speak Italian, and seems like you are in Italy there. Same for China, Mexico, Korea, and a lot of other countries. So when you are looking to observe the average American, don't focus on these places, cause you could see these kind of places by traveling much shorter distance from where you are.

Best wishes,
J_P







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