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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. 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.
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I'm sorry - this seems stunningly parochial. You are geographically disconnected from two interesting foreign countries that you can drive to in a car? Can anyone explain this?
I consider myself to be part of the same geographical continuity as Iceland in the North West, Spain in the South West, Greece and Turkey in the South East, Finland and Russia in the North East. I am European - we have over 2 dozen countries, nearly as many languages and I have to cross the sea to get to almost all of it.
As for getting angry - I'm not angry - I typed it out phonetically to emphasise the fact that after a while it just becomes so much noise - there's no patriotism (to the external observer) it's verging on fervent cultish behaviour.
I like "Who's Line is it Anyway" - it's a great British TV show, based on an old Radio show. There's a round where they pick names from a hat. In the British version, they use a nondescript brown or black hat (a trilby I think in some episodes).
When the show was sold to the States, they use a hat that has been stolen from an Uncle Sam recruiting poster.
Your President wears his flag on his lapel, like he's frightened he'll forget where he's president of.
Your country refuses to take part in international arrangements to set up a war crimes court, and then wonders why nobody else on earth approves of the Gitmo war crimes trials.
This goes on and on and on.
Please don't accuse me of anger - I feel sadness. America is a great country. Some of the people I care most about are American. I love American culture, i read American books, watch American shows, watch American movies, listen to American music.
I don't get American sports, and wonder why you can't see how much better F1 is compared to Indy racing, but that's not anger.
What I see in America is what I see in reading history about the British Empire of the 1920's. You have the facility to control so many things in the world and influence them for good, but you're living high on the hog, and not realising that the people you think should love you actually want what you've got and will take it from you.
I don't want to see the US got through the pain that the UK did after WWII, but I fear it's coming in a generation.