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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have you been to Europe?[/quote]

When I came here from Europe I was appauled at how poor American's hygiene was. Friends didn't shower regulary or wash their hair and they kept their room/house nasty and filthy. [/quote]

? I'm American and none of my American friends shower less than daily, and many shower twice daily. While there are sometimes noticeable differences in hygiene practices between Americans and Europeans, I haven't noticed similar differences in cleanliness of their homes.

Hygiene isn't a matter of one culture being better or worse than another culture. It wasn't so long ago that Europeans and Americans bathed less than once a month because they were afraid water carried life-threatening contaminants. By way of example, a French king once learned that one of his courtiers had recently bathed. He wrote to the courtier that out of concern for that courtier's health, rendered fragile by the bath, he would go to his home to meet with him, rather than holding the meeting elsewhere. [/quote]

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