The average American is nothing if not patriotic.

Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

The average American is more focused on leadership than likeability. And more focused on qualifications than quality of speakership.

The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.

The setting of 'Billy Elliot' is the British miners' strike of 1984-85, about which the average American playgoer knows absolutely nothing.