Americans and Their Culture 3

I woke up somewhere en route to Niagara falls through Pennsylvania to Mr. Tour Guide Man ranting into the mic by himself about the failure of Korean society to discipline their children resulting in snooty spoiled brats that he’d really like to smack upside the heads and how he will never ever raise his children like Korean people do but will raise them like Americans do. This all to an audience of Korean parents with Korean children listening at rapt attention. He then helpfully posed the non-question: “People ask me such things as: ‘How do Americans discipline their children in order to have such well-behaved children?’” to which he not so helpfully answered that Americans are just all naturally good parents and that one look of their gentle good-parent eyes and one word from their gentle good-parent mouths will make any child apparently want to fold their own laundry, get accepted to Harvard, and make a billion bucks to send their good parents on an all-expenses-paid Mediterranean cruise.