Tyler Cowen

I think US has done a marvelous job at that and we need to preserve that.

What I see happening, UK used to do a great job at it.

UK somehow the balance is out of whack and you have too many non-growth oriented people in the cultural mix.

Which I felt, this is real dinners, yeah.

And the food is good too.

I don't think I'm well-cultured would be one difference.

There are many differences.

First, I'm an American.

I'm a regional thinker.

I'm from New Jersey.

So I'm essentially a barbarian, not a cultured person.

I have a veneer of culture that comes from having collected a lot of information.

So I'll know more about

culture than a lot of people.

And that can be mistaken for being well-cultured, but it's really quite different.

It's like a barbarian's approach to culture.

It's like a very autistic approach to being cultured and should be seen as such.

So I feel the French person is very foreign from me.

And there's something about America they might find strange or repellent.

And I'm just so used to it.