Austrian: (noun) a citizen of a republic in central Europe

I often laugh out loud at my American sense of intelligence.

Here is how I would describe the average American’s assessment of the entire world: it’s like a huge coffee-table book full of colored pictures with one-line captions.

In other words, we have a picture in our minds of what everything in the world consists of, and then only one line of explanation to reinforce the vision.

I am completely confident that Austria is a country filled with normal people, computers, vice and virtue and typical human behavior.

But my personal caption to this Austrian tableau would be: “The Sound of Music” meets “Strauss waltz.”

So I would imagine a country filled with people walking around singing all the time or on their way to a rehearsal with Mozart.

Of course, nothing could be further from the truth, but since I’ve only allowed myself a one-line caption for the picture, I’m afraid they’ll just have to live with my assessment.

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