My experience in USA..too was similar although not as exaggerated as mentioned above. Basically americans are not only ignorant about many things, they are plain dumb also at times.They have a minority of intelligent people who are running the country. To say never forget who the top boss is like :) Bush himself represents an average dumb american !!
Before we point point our Fingers on the Americans, let me also want to descibe my experience with the North Indians in Delhi during my short stay over there for 6 months.
The Knowledge of North Indians about South India is even more pathetic. They all think that all the South Indians speak only one language that is "Madarasi", they don't even understand that there are 4 states in south and all of them speak different language which are very much unique. They all have some misconceptions about the Southies that all the south Indian can't speak any other languate other than Madarasi, South Indians are less Inteligence and ill-mannered and can't fit any other jobs other than the Junior Assistants and lower Division Clerks, there are no big Industrial Power Houses in South India. Somehow they feel that the south Indians are less competent and never deserves a better respect.
This had happened a way back in 1999, which is totally contrary to Truth. The very fact is that we south Indians are far more developed in all the aspects when compared to North India.
When the people of our Country has some kind of misconceptions about their Brothers, you can't expect somebody who lives more than thousands of miles to understand us better.
I cared a damn about what the North Indian think of us and i never tried to explain about the fact to them and waste my time. I only laughed at their ignorance. You don't need to give more importance by bothering others ignorance.
