11.  Americans have recently acquired a taste for gourmet coffee.

12.  Americans held the conviction that anyone could become rich if they worked hard.

13.  Americans love their cars, and no-one is going to persuade them to give them up.

14.  Americans love to plunk themselves down in front of the TV.

15.  Americans put international terrorism high on the list of their greatest concerns.

16.  Americans seem to have a fetish for watering their golf courses.

17.  An increase in the minimum wage would help the most disadvantaged Americans.

18.  Baseball still fascinates Americans.

19.  Businesses may only hire foreign workers where an American cannot be found.

20.  By the end of the last century, Americans had embraced the idea of the right to free public education for all children.