The People-Watcher’s Guide To The United States Of America may well be the most important book of the decade. Simon Kilpatrick certainly thinks so.
Based on observations from his people-watching expeditions to the USA, this indispensable handbook for the globally aware traveler will help you to distinguish between the many types of American people out there, so you can better place everyone you see into a box (because people are easier to deal with when they’re in boxes).
It also reveals never-before-documented facts and answers all your questions about the people of the USA. For example:
• What should you never do in an American airport?
• Are all Americans obese? (If not, why not?)
• Why do white Americans prefer black babies when adopting?
• Which state is better than all the others?
• What is an American woman’s favorite toy?
• What is a Mexican’s favorite leisure activity?
• How do Americans decide which political party to support?
• Where can you go to see a Redneck?
About the author
Simon Kilpatrick is a world-renowned observer of people. Dubbed the Sir David Attenborough of Humans – by himself (“Where Attenborough observes animals,” he says, “I observe humans”) – he has undertaken people-watching expeditions to more than 111 countries on nine different continents.
When questioned on his nationality, Kilpatrick notes that he is “a citizen of Earth” – he was born on a Swiss ship in international waters somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, to a mother who was half-German and one-sixteenth-Latino, and to a father who was three-quarters-Irish and two-thirds-South African. His first language is Esperanto. He had lived in all the countries of sub-Saharan Africa before his fifth birthday.
Kilpatrick believes it is his multicultural heritage that has enabled him to accurately determine the subtle differences between the people of different nations.
Based on observations from his people-watching expeditions to the USA, this indispensable handbook for the globally aware traveler will help you to distinguish between the many types of American people out there, so you can better place everyone you see into a box (because people are easier to deal with when they’re in boxes).
It also reveals never-before-documented facts and answers all your questions about the people of the USA. For example:
• What should you never do in an American airport?
• Are all Americans obese? (If not, why not?)
• Why do white Americans prefer black babies when adopting?
• Which state is better than all the others?
• What is an American woman’s favorite toy?
• What is a Mexican’s favorite leisure activity?
• How do Americans decide which political party to support?
• Where can you go to see a Redneck?
About the author
Simon Kilpatrick is a world-renowned observer of people. Dubbed the Sir David Attenborough of Humans – by himself (“Where Attenborough observes animals,” he says, “I observe humans”) – he has undertaken people-watching expeditions to more than 111 countries on nine different continents.
When questioned on his nationality, Kilpatrick notes that he is “a citizen of Earth” – he was born on a Swiss ship in international waters somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, to a mother who was half-German and one-sixteenth-Latino, and to a father who was three-quarters-Irish and two-thirds-South African. His first language is Esperanto. He had lived in all the countries of sub-Saharan Africa before his fifth birthday.
Kilpatrick believes it is his multicultural heritage that has enabled him to accurately determine the subtle differences between the people of different nations.
