How Saudi's and American's (or our countries) are alike

A few months back I wrote an article about how we are different from the folks in Saudi where I'm working right now. Saudi Arabia is a country swept in sand and mystery and holds a mystique that us Morrison folks don't always understand, but in many respects we are the same. Maybe this list can show you how.

We both have:
1 - An East Coast, a West Coast and a Gulf Coast
2 - Sandy beaches
3 - Fathers, Sons, Mothers, Daughters, Cousins, Husbands, Wives, etc.
4 - Flies
5 - Big American cars
6 - Lots of pick up trucks and SUVs
7 - Coke & Pepsi
8 - Armed police
9 - McDonalds
10 - Hardees
11 - Ponderosa
12 - Bennigans
13 - Pizza Hut
14 - Mexican food
15 - Air conditioning
16 - Qualified for the World Cup
17 - Not much chance of progressing to the second round of the World Cup
18 - Big shopping malls
19 - Horse racing
20 - Lots of churches (or Mosques)
21 - Lots of Fundamentalists
22 - Road signs in English (at least on the roads I've been on)
23 - Concern for the Israeli/Palestinian situation
24 - No national health plan
25 - No hard liquor advertisements on TV
26 - TV censorship
27 - Low fat milk (actually, as in most countries, it is called Long Life [homogenized and UHT treated] Low Fat milk which I commonly refer to as "lowlife milk")
28 - American military supplies
29 - Lots of oil
30 - Cheap (relative to most countries) gas
31 - Firm religious/ethical beliefs 32 - Seatbelt law
33 - Former slaveholders
34 - Maxwell House coffee and Lipton tea
35 - The death penalty


(by Marc Adami, )