You have money

This afternoon I was coming back from Old City and I was in a taxi. I was opening up a package that my wonderful parents sent me. There were some 3 Muskateers in it. I wanted to share a little bit with the nice taxi driver so I handed him one and told him that it was chocolate from America. He said thank you. And then told me that since I'm an American I have lots of money. I chuckled and said that no I didn't because I'm student. He chuckled back and said again that I had a lot of money because I was an American. All Chinese (and Asians really) think that all Americans are wealthy. We all know that's not true don't we? :)