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When I started to read the answers to my question I found out what kind of people the Americans are, but then I found also some intelligent answers from persons like Willravel, Host and Macmanmike. Thank you for those answers.
I am not so sure about your freedom mainly because of many govermental institutions.
Macmanmike: Which are the American innovations of the last century you are speaking about?
Yes, ironically said: You are unstoppable indeed. We just would like you to stay at home and be unstoppable there. The USA is not some sort of world-police.
Willravel: You ask if "they" (that is "we") hate you. First, I don't know you so this is not personal, but European people think that Americans are ignorant, sometimes even stupid (which was demonstrated by the answers I got and it is also demonstrated by your filmindustry). The education in USA is poor. Seaver even thought that we pay 60% in taxes here! Many of you speak only one or two languages, you even have illiteracy - something we don't have at all in my country.
Capitalism is of course not an American invention. It was known already in classical antiquity but developed in 16:th century England.
Some of you wrote about Bush. There the worldopinion is united; Bush is the stupidest politician there is in the world. He is called "Hitler" in Germany. Italy's televisionchanel RaiUno had a whole televisionevening called something like "USA, the stupid dictature". In Great Britan they are pondering how the world would be if they hadn't been forced to give the colonies away. USA could be as good as Canada.
Still nobody has convinced me that USA is great.
Benito
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