May we hate him with you?
Last fall my son's japanese language high school class hosted a high school girl's class from Japan. They were all in uniform (yes, short skirts though from what I know this is more an urban thing than a country thing), all cute, only one remotely plump. My son said they couldn't get over how fat *so many* Americans were ...
Ah well... I got to help parent chaperone them around and that was a whole level of entertainment just to hear the chorused "Ne!!!!?" when they'd agree on something. And, of course they got to laugh at my attempts at the language which made them feel better about trying english out on me.
Ooops, off track -- it was a lot of fun though. Japanese is my first non-western language. I guess its fascinating that the linguistics map to western languages as well as they do and I'll take the counters and irregulars over that damned noun-sex and 4/6/+ cases any day