Ready.
Manifest Destiny, The Turner/Frontier Thesis, Freedom Fries, Patriot Toast, Gitmo, Iraq, Fox News, 23 months of presidential posturing, CNN, foreign affairs and policy, Cuba, driving two states into the US and having people say "New Brunswick? All the way from Jersey?", oil, U-S-A, sporting events, your military, your media, your culture, "is he a mexican?", "man it must be cold up there (in july)", etc.
Your nation tends to put itself at the forefront for everything, and then expects when things go bad, for people to look aside. It's a lack of political accountability, and at least a little, if not a lot, arrogance to make this possible. And even though it isn't (or shouldn't be), it's become an international joke. It doesn't make you or the individuals of your country that; not even close. But the way you allow yourselves to be presented is all we see. And because of that, that's why we're here. That's how I feel.
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Originally Posted by matthew330
abaya, not being a world traveler English is the only language necessary for functioning in Kansas, or Utah, or Michigan, or, or, or, or.. .you get my drift. Interestingly enough, in a place like northern Virginia, you almost have to know Spanish. And I am geographically disconnected fromboth Quebec AND mexico, so I really don't know what you want. When being confronted in the manner I was, and friends have been when travelling abroad - I, as an American, am clearly not the one with a "moral superiority". So I'm only going to sit there for so long listening to that horseshit for so long. The thought of "some people" finding themselves in the same situation and feeding into that mentality, as misguided as it is, sickens me. It took all of 3 minutes of me challenging him before this dude was like "oh, uhh...let's change the subject".
No if you have a political point, offer a discussion, and I'm clearly receptive and you've got more to offer than what this jerkoff did.....then that's just great.
And Daniel and the Nightfly, that sounds so childish and pathetic. You get angry because people yell USA (and can't even bring yourself to type it) at a sports arena occasionally. I just can't help you. Continue your angry, pissed off lives.
I'm consistent. Nope - not hard at all.
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You are completely proving the point that your opposition is making with your first couple sentences. "I live in Kansas so why the hell do I need to understand you". Arrogant.
Sorry but that pisses me off.
What's even worse is you continue to say "I'm receptive" and follow with "that's dumb though, so fuck you." That's not diplomacy, that's fucking ignorant. Consider, perhaps, that people feel that American's are ignorant because you feel you must be the authority on all that is, as well as continuing to feel that you constantly hold the moral high ground. Consult my first two points in my list. They agree with me.