Originally Posted by
jasonrf
Comes down to the person?
People are copycats. If only one generation starts to be "correct", the next generation will follow. So as long as American instructors are "coming down" with the transponder and "howzdaride-ing", American students will copy the cool instructors and captains without hesitating. He's cool, he's doing it, I'm doing it, now I'm cool as well.
Doesn't take out the personality psychology: some people just like standards less than others.
Not meaning to bash on the American culture specifically by the way, every culture has their "I'm part of the gang"-slang.