One of my favourite types of posts are from posters who've spent years whoring around in Thailand claiming that (a) they are Buddhists and (b) Buddhism is a superior philosophy to anything in their own culture (which they usually despise)

As an antidote to those self serving pretensions (and let's face it you can't actually be a good Buddhist and be self-serving) I point to the following useful article

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc ... is/403195/