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Originally Posted by Aladdin Sane
Hardknock made some rather sweeping statements above about Americans. If the same generalizations were said about any other class or race of people, it would be immediately dismissed as the ravings of lunacy. To wholly characterize 4,041,769 Kentuckians with a few trite generalizations is absurdity. The United States population currently stands at 293,027,571. Judging from what is written above, Hardknock has met them all, I suppose.
I've taken Hardknock's quote, and replaced a few key words. To wit:
This kind of bigotry would never be allowed to stand unchallenged in this forum, and rightfully so.
I guess we save our enlightened (but trendy) tolerance for groups of people that have been certified as worthly by the arbiters of cool.
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This definitely does not belong in the Australia forum (home of "The Cunt Thread", and "Support Ella's Nipple"). This is way too serious hehe. Kinda proves the title of this thread.
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The problem with most americans is that we have a sense of entitlement. The majority of people think that everything in the world is supposed to conform to them. They think that the world revolves around America. Not the other way around. So when they stumble upon something that's foreign and unfamiliar and not what they expect, they cringe. Hence, the "wary" feelings talked about in this article. Reading it didn't surprise me at all. I would expect that kind of response coming out of Kentucky.
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Besides the Kentucky bit (I've never been to Kentucky), I agree with this 100%. And who cares if he made a Kentucky joke or called them "uptight republicans"? It's his opinion, and he's free to make it.
Trying to compare race (blacks) or a certain "class" of people to a "melting pot" (the US) is meaningless (IMHO). It's two different things. Apples, Oranges. The US (and the people Hardknock was talking about) transcends race, class, sex, religion. A lot of people do think the world revolves around the US. It's their comfort zone, it's how they live. That's how it goes when you're one of the strongest (if not the strongest) nation in the world.
Whatever, back to nonsense.
Never seen Little Britian.. from the sounds of it, I don't want to.