| How do you spot the Australian kids in an American playground? |
They're the ones wearing hats.
Despite it being noon, the various American kids at the playground all lacked sun protection. In fact, they pretty much all lacked practical clothing, it was all way too dressy. Americans don't seem to have figured out skin cancer at all in fact, every weekend there are bikini clad young ladies sunning themselves around the pool, the schools don't require kids to wear sun protection, and it's pretty common to see outside workers not wearing any sun protection either. How odd.
posted at: 16:20 | path: /travel/usa | permanent link to this entry
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Fred Nerk
It depends on where you live. Europe and most of northern asian countries do not have the intense heat and radiation that Australia suffers from. Therefore the incidence of skin cancers are typically much less then here. I assume most of the USA has something very similar.
You can notice the trend based on sunglasses, in Europe they are fashion accessories, Australia it is glare protection and fashion accessory
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Simon Dugard
We noticed something similar during our European travels. You could spot the Australian tourists, 'cause they were the ones wearing hats and stopping to put on sunscreen every few hours.