Originally Posted by crxforum

Here is my view on the US. First let me say that my mother lives in FLA. I live in Ontario. Ive been to the US so many times for extended periods so I feel that I have the right to voice my honest oppinions about stuff.

There are huge differences between the US and Canada. Most US people dont seem to feel that it is necessary to give a crap about anything that is going on outside of their own country, hell their state in most cases. They feel that they live in the best, strongest, and smartest country in the world. It sort of makes them dumfounded when I tell them that for the last 10 years (with 1 year exception) Canada has been ranked the best place to live in the world. That China, and North Korea both have larger armies than the US and most likely if they both faced off one on one the US would loose just to shear numbers, politics, and technology.

The US spends too much time thinking about Military stradgety so that people get impatient and then the US thinks that it has to move fast to save their reputation. Thus making errors and mistakes that normal countries wouldnt make.

America needs to step back and watch itself for a little while like the rest of the world does. Americans have a superiority complex and ignorance complex that I find very interesting. They feel that they are so important to the world but are ignorant to learn and investigate why they think that way or (heaven forbids) if another area of the world is better than they are.

America's children are one of the lowest ranked in education in the big 8. They have the highest mortality rate do to race on race crime. They have the highest hate crime rate. They have the highest general crime rate. They have the highest murder rate (by far). They have the highest substance abuse rate. These are not just because the US has no many people. Scaled down to each member of the big 8's population or inflated to their population it still is considerably high in comparision to the others.

Why do you think that most of the world hates the US? Becasue your portait of yourselves on TV and other outlets are selfish, cocky, arrogant, mean, power hungry, and self centered country.

Calm down America and look at yourself in the mirror. You have more flaws than you think you do and throwing money at them instead of sitting down and trying to ask for help on how to solve them, instead of threatening anyone with an oppinion on what you should do, might actually assist you in the long run.

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