I've been asked to give a 30 minutes interview with Bulgarian National Radio in honor of the 4th of July. Ha, ha! I love it. That's what happens when you're a foreigner. You get asked to do things simply because you're a foreigner and this foreigner status then crosses the slippery-slope into expert territory.

That's me: Fourth of July Expert. I mean I have a American passport. I must know a lot about the 4th of July.

The truth  is I am far from an expert on American History--I've got a double major in English and Political Science so I am pretty comfortable with things like the American constitution and more generally speaking American Culture. So I figure that I've got the basics down but I'm going do a little research to do in preparation for this interview.

Mostly I don't want to come off like Sarah Palin and her Paul Revere gaff recently. For those of you living under a rock or somehow not in the know, Sarah Palin recently<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/richard-adams-blog/2011/jun/06/sarah-palin-paul-revere-british" target="_blank"> butchered the Paul Revere story</a>--shifting the focus to the right to bear arms. <em>Awesome</em>. Or not. Jon Stewart of the Daily Show also <a href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-june-6-2011/sarah-palin-s-folksy-word-salad" target="_blank">hit this one hard</a>. But really, how could he not?

Maybe my goal: don't sound like Sarah Palin and don't screw up American history is too basic, but it seems like the perfect place to start for my first radio interview.

I've also been told that the interviewer is interested not only in the Fourth of July but also in my opinion and insight on the Bulgarian economy and politics. <em>Um</em>. Gulp. I guess that I should probably have one but I find these things incredibly hard to keep up with and most people that I know utter words like "the crisis" and shake their heads defeatedly. Some version of the same happens for politics in Bulgaria as well.  Maybe I need to find new friends.

Anyhow, in preparation for this interview, what kinds of things do you think Bulgarians are most interested in when it comes to the Fourth of July?