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I've grown up - and live in a multi-cultural, multi-religious environment. It has made me aware of how similar we are, but also how different. One might think that religion is what hits the difference home, but in my experience; it is our sense of humour. Situations where you are laughing, but no-one else is - or when every one else is laughing, but you're not - really make you stand out like a strawberry among peas.

Take away cultural sensitivities to dirty jokes, and the people whose humour differs most from my own is, suprisingly, the Americans. Certain kind of American humour is just incomprehensible to me. It's not that I find it offensive or crude, I just don't find it...well, funny.

My American friend Amy *waves to Ames* is a writer - and a good one at that. She wrote a scene that had all her American friends in stitches, whereas her European friends could smile apologetically when asked what they thought about it.

iagor has a recent lj-entry with a perfect example. If it wasn't for the Bwa-ha-ha! and the comment to it, I would never have realized that it was supposed to be funny *frowns*. What is it that I'm not getting?