> My experience in Australia is that there are basic standards of decency that can be expected. This is not the case in the US. This varies, perhaps regionally

> My experience in Australia is that there are basic standards of decency that can be expected. This is not the case in the US. This varies, perhaps regionally but definitely from individual to individual. I can assure you that some of us in America grew up learning to be more like how you characterize Australians, and totally bought into that, only to be rudely awakened by the actual reality in much of this country. The shock took me about a decade of adulthood to really start to get over.