World Cultures
Another oldie but goodie. If you know where this (PD?) story came from, please tell us.
In a UN-sponsored sociological experiment to determine the impact of ones culture of origin on behavior, groups consisting of one woman and two men from various countries were left for a month on idyllic tropical islands with the following results:
English: Nothing happened because the men and woman hadn't been properly introduced.
Italian: The men killed each other in a duel over the woman.
French: The three were living happily together in a "menage-a-trois."
German: The men alternated spending time with the woman on a strict weekly schedule.
Greek: The men slept with each other and the woman cooked and cleaned for them.
Bulgarian: The men looked at the woman, looked at the ocean, and started swimming.
Russian: The men took turns standing on a crate and making speeches to each other about politics, while the woman cooked and cleaned for them.
American: The woman was declaiming about her body being her own, the true nature of feminism, how she can do everything they can do, about the necessity of fulfillment, the equal division of household chores, how her last boyfriend respected her opinion and treated her much nicer and how her relationship with her mother is improving. The men contemplated suicide while consoling themselves that at least the taxes were low and it wasn't raining.
Irish: The three divided up their island into North and South sides and set up a distillery. They didn't remember if sex was in the picture because it gets sort of foggy after the first few liters of coconut whiskey, but at least the English weren't getting any.
