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Originally posted by Munchkin03
There's a HUGE difference in adjusting to a new country and just being rude about it. When I moved to a foreign country, for about the same amount of time, with strangers as roommates, and I didn't act anywhere near the way Ace did. The words that he uttered seemed to be peculiar to him--not his roommates or the vast majority of Americans who WILLINGLY move abroad. My criticism of him had nothing to do with his drinking (he's over 21), or anything like that--simply his rudeness and unwillingness to settle into a foreign environment. The RW folks in London experienced culture shock, to be sure--remember Mike and the Ranch dressing?--but they were not the stereotypical "Ugly American." His insularity is what turned me off.
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No offense, but did you even watch the end of that episode? His attitude did a complete 360 and he admitted he was just being ignorant by hating the culture only because he didn't know about it.
Yea he was a jerk, but it takes an even bigger person to make it known to everyone that he was wrong - which makes me think even more highly of him. Everyone is wrong in what they believe sometimes - but no many of us can admit to it.