Title: Different opinion
Product review: I found the book to be opinionated and rather negative about the U.S. I also found many of its statements odd. She says "if students show up for class, they may get a "C" just for their good attendance." About houses, she says, "the East Coast and Midwest regions... often have a basement for the tornadoes or hurricanes possible in those areas." About the Amish, she says they "reject modern conveniences such as electricity, cars, air travel, jewelry and divorce." The book is peppered with statistics, some of which are suspect or flat-out wrong such as "the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports 35 million temporary workers, or nearly one third of our labor force, is made up of temporary workers." The book also uses a lot of idiomatic expressions which I would imagine would make it hard to read for someone whose native language is not English. For instance, the section on marriage is entitled "Tying the Knot" but that expression is never explained.
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