Americans. So today was my first experience with Americans. Why surprised me most is the ease at which Americans live with the dicotomy of true and lies. Today we talked about success and failure. Psychology people attribute success to themselves (internally) and failure to events outside their control (externally). What our lecturer said today. When your boss askes you, its okay to blame it on external happenings, but you need to be aware of what internally you could have done better. This is just an example. American consider it okay to lie. They are comfortable acknowledging that lying is the best option; publically showing one face by privately having another. I from 10000 miles away knew this was happening, but it never occurred to me as to how blatant it is.