> wrote in message ...
> Kim > wrote:
> > I often wonder, as do my friends, why Americans look to someone like
> > Martha Stewart to instruct them about lifestyle fashions and interior
> > decorating.
>
> Do all Europeans think and act the same way? Of course not. So why
> would you assume that all Americans look to Martha Steward for advise
> about lifestyle fashions and interior decorating?

Indeed, some of us don't even watch Oprah nor hang on her every utterance.