Or cultural cues, reminds me of Christiane Amanpour in Beirut when it was most dangerous place on Earth, sitting in anteroom waiting to interview Arafat. The guards, loaded with machine guns and grenades, natural born killers all are intently watching "Tom and Jerry" cartoons, not quite getting that it's a cartoon, dead serious, they ask Amanapour, "Who do you think will win, Tom or Jerry".