Andy: I'm guessing that your Brazilian friends are
disappointed that in the U.S. everyone doesn't really swing
from building to building.
No I was disappointed and chastened that others view us not
as arrogant cowboys, but as timid and docile bureaucratic
types.
That "American gun-toting cowboy" label is tough to live
with, and even tougher to live without. I felt as though I
had lost something when I realized we weren't thought to be
arrogant gun-toting cowboys. All this time I thought we were
the gun-toting cowboys. I missed being thought of as a
gun-toting cowboy, especially when the other option was the
docile bureaucrat obsessed with permission and consensus.
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