What I think of America

This blog post will be about what I associate with America and what pops into my head when someone says the word “America”.

Although I’m aware of the fact that America is a whole continent and not just one country, the first thing I think of when someone says America, is the USA. I have already written a paragraph of what I think of the USA (http://idangv.blogspot.no/2012/11/the-usa.html), but Barack Obama isn’t the only thing I associate with the US:

Junk food. Maybe the most common thought associated with the USA. It is no secret that the Americans eat a lot of junk food.

Gossip Girl, one of my favorite TV-shows. If I don’t picture an American person eating junk food, I picture them as rich and good looking, but devious and ruthless.

If I’m asked to tell you what I think of America round the USA, I think of Canada and then I think of bears.

I’ve been to Canada once, we spent five days in Calgary and then five days up in the mountains. My family and I really love to go skiing, and we got to see great parts of Canadian nature while we were doing that. So that’s why I think of a bear: because we saw one up in the mountains while we were skiing. The bear is also my favorite animal.

So that’s what I think of America: the USA, junk food, Gossip Girl, Canada and grizzly bears. Quite an interesting mix, I think, but that’s what makes America so exiting: a great diversity of things typical for this big continent.