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See.... the young way to do things is to not bother with the manual, but dive straight in and try every button and every feature and work it all out yourself.
I know because this is how I was and how I still am. I think it is that trait that distinguishes me from a friend of mine (same age, 39) who is the total opposite. Won't touch anything or try anything outside of a narrow set of known options.
It's almost like the two ways of looking at things are:
1. It's my widget and I'm going to become intimate with it by playing around with every button doodad and setting I can.
As opposed to:
2. It's my widget but I'm not sure what pressing that button will do, so I won't in case I break something.
Yes I smoked a lot of electronic components when I was a young boy :-) But I also learnt a lot and feel comfortable now with anything new.
Moving from the istDS to the K20D was pretty daunting as it had so many more buttons, etc. A couple of weeks later and I'm pretty sure I had pressed every single button and tried every single feature.
My friend (same one mentioned above) has the Samsung K10 equivalent and he still keeps it sitting on "Green" mode. I'm sure he has hardly ever scrolled the wheels on it.
In summary.... it has nothing to do with nationalities but everything to do with personalities.
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