You're very wrong. I know tons of people in their twenties who are waiting for marriage. Hell, people in my generation are getting married younger and younger now, most of my classes in college have at least three girls who are married, so it's getting easier to wait until marriage, too. Especially for people who were born and raised Catholic (like Anita). Some of the stuff the nuns and priests would tell us about sex would be enough to turn ANYONE off.
Warning, Rant: Vacation means that you're a young American who is away from all known authorities in your life, having a great time, drinking lots of cheap wine because it's better in Europe than in the States, and are surrounded by people you will never.ever.ever. see again in your entire life. Plus, and I lived in Rome for four months so I saw this, it can also mean that you're in a place where how you act has more to do with people being attracted to you than how you actually look. And there's accents. And European men pay a lot closer attention to clothes and whatnot so they're hotter than American guys. Mainly, there's lots of factors that go into the fact that American girls have sex when on European vacations that about 90% of Europeans I've met seem to think means that we have lots of sex ALL the time, EVERYwhere. It's probably my biggest pet peeve about anti-American prejudice, that no one looks at the context.
...That's probably because your not American, maybe? Because I have no problem seeing her as she is. Though, back in the earlier books it was a lot easier to imagine her as a short, kick ass lil' hispanic girl. Or maybe it's because you're thinking more of actual Mexicans than of Mexican-Americans, who are a bit different (like how Africans are nothing like African-Americans).
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Warning, Rant: Vacation means that you're a young American who is away from all known authorities in your life, having a great time, drinking lots of cheap wine because it's better in Europe than in the States, and are surrounded by people you will never.ever.ever. see again in your entire life. Plus, and I lived in Rome for four months so I saw this, it can also mean that you're in a place where how you act has more to do with people being attracted to you than how you actually look. And there's accents. And European men pay a lot closer attention to clothes and whatnot so they're hotter than American guys. Mainly, there's lots of factors that go into the fact that American girls have sex when on European vacations that about 90% of Europeans I've met seem to think means that we have lots of sex ALL the time, EVERYwhere. It's probably my biggest pet peeve about anti-American prejudice, that no one looks at the context.
...That's probably because your not American, maybe? Because I have no problem seeing her as she is. Though, back in the earlier books it was a lot easier to imagine her as a short, kick ass lil' hispanic girl. Or maybe it's because you're thinking more of actual Mexicans than of Mexican-Americans, who are a bit different (like how Africans are nothing like African-Americans).