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(what was it that turned this humble thread into the politics board? Something in the middle just went "BOOM!" it seems...)
I don't know very many Americans, but these forums alone prove to me that there are many intelligent, well mannered people from the States, who I would be more than willing to spend an evening with. That doesn't mean that there aren't Americans that I greatly dislike, but so it goes.
I find the way that America presents itself abrasive. It seems to be a fast and disposable society in some areas, and yet also archaically slow and conservative in others. I find the government's general distaste for secularism strange and contradictory to what I thought the United States were supposed to stand for. Each time I read the news, I find the intellectual development of the country to be slowing and advancing, at war with itself.
The United States of America is our great defender, and the home and birthplace of hundreds of the worlds brilliant minds. They are a terrifying and comforting country, filled with wealth and poverty, justices and injustices.
My opinion of the United States isn't very well educated. I admit my ignorance of detailed American foreign policy and the way that Americans actually live. I've only been to the States once, and I was still a child then. I barely remember anything. I hope everything I said makes sense. If not, I can try to clarify if you're interested.
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