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[QUOTE=TheBrit]I have to ask, why do Americans sporadically clap? Me and my family watch Fox news for amusement purposes, they had this guy on it a couple of nights ago talking about body armour. When he said something like "We think it's sufficient" the entire audience at the Fox place stood up, clapped and started whooping. It was really quite confusing.
I like to think that maybe the people at Fox news aren't the best cross section of the American public, but they did the same thing when I went to a cinema in America...
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The problem is that nobody teaches us when it is appropriate to clap, so we do it all the time, just to be sure we don't miss an opportunity to make noise.
If you ever attend the symphony in Sacramento, you will find that we clap at completely inappropriate places: between movements, after a solo...we are really horrid about this sort of thing.
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