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Well, I'm a little frustrated with the Anti-American sentiment right now. It isn't as blatant as "Death to America" (thinking of a Saturday Night Live skit--10 points to anyone else to who remembers it) but it's one of those pervasive things here in our English ward. Think of how a group of really bitter women talks about men and that's how most folks talk about Americans--they are understood to be bad and are the easy butts of jokes. I remember as a young college student my female friends and I would refer to a particularly badly designed building as "obviously designed by a man." You know, that sort of thing.

It is so annoying! Katie--do you find similar sentiments in the church in Asia? It's as if being an international church means that all American anythings must go out the window and if they don't then obviously we're not being sensitive to the local members. Tonight at our Enrichment on the RS Birthday I really felt like it was thought to be Anti-British to be knowledgable about the history of RS (above and beyond knowledge of, say, the first few years of RS--the type of stuff that comes up in lessons on the founding of RS). As if knowing the past RS Presidents is somehow an American thing instead of a Mormon thing! So previous RS Presidents are not relevant because they aren't British? It was frustrating because nights like this are supposed to bring us together as a sisterhood and I just felt excluded and singled out.

Grrrr.

Marianne

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