>All the expression and the style the american acts gives us the feeling of very close friends. We, on the opposite, might be understand as reserved and cold.

I've had more contact with the Dutch and the Germans in campings - just a few weeks a year between '71 and '78 - than I had with the Amers over these years of actually living here all the time (I don't take a break from that, surprising, eh?). Must be the change in the lifestyle.

BTW, nice link in the signature, even if it meant that if it really worked, it would have worked only once :).