Originally posted by ho chi minh
The problem is that the rest of the western world gets the garbage aspect of american culture forced upon us,which does not portray the average
american in a good light.
If it makes the rest of the western world feel any better we get the garbage aspect of American culture forced upon us as well. Despite the television
line-ups, not all of us are drunken fools that like to make asses out of ourselves in reality shows. Nor do we all live the way they show it in
sitcoms. I think many people around the world have a distorted view of who and what Americans actually are and I blame Hollywood and our government
for that.
I think Americans have deluded themselves into thinking the rest of the world want to be like them,sorry not the case.
It is my sincere hope that the rest of the world wants to be like me, an American, just as much as I want to be like the rest of the world. (That
would be not at all.)
The people who are desperate to migrate to the states do so for economic reasons not cultural ones.I don't think you can even try that"land
of the free" sh*t any more no one is buying it.
I'm sure there are many people who are "desperate to migrate" as you put it for reasons other than economic ones. People who come to the US to get
away from the oppression of their home countries come immediately to mind. So yes, we are more free than a lot of places. For instance, I don't have
to be segregated from the male population, don't have to keep my face covered at all times, and if I get raped the law won't consider it my fault
while letting my rapist run free.
Seems to me like we have loads of freedoms that some places don't have, but maybe I'm wrong. Maybe the rest of the world is utopia and all the
oppression and violence that I hear about daily going on in other parts of the world is just made up to make me think the world is going to hell in a
hand basket and that I have it pretty good here. Are there places that have more/different freedoms than the US? Most likely. Does that mean that we
don't have any freedoms? Absolutely not.
So to say everyone hates america/americans is wrong,you would not use the word hate against an obnoxious,disruptive and aggressive child would
you? you hope that the child will grow out of it one day.
Depends. Has that "obnoxious, disruptive and aggressive child" kicked you personally in the shins? Or have you only received second-hand biased
stories about said child kicking someone else in the shins? If it's the former, than yeah I'd say most people would use the word hate. If it's the
latter, most people would just shake their heads and wonder why the parents haven't taught the kid better manners.
But in keeping with your analogy, who would be the parents of the US? Should they be getting a slap on the wrist for not keeping their child in check?
Should we be put in time out now since some don't like our behavior? Or should the rest of the world come to terms with the fact that they aren't
always going to like what we do or how we do it, just as we don't always approve of what other countries are doing or how they do it?
