Originally posted by Anti - Government
Yes I agree I don’t really think that the next president should necessarily have to be born in the US OF A why can’t for example they be born in Canada and move to America when they are 3 and still be president

Maybe though that you should have to be living in America for a number of years let’s say 10 - 20 and maybe every candidate will have to take a written and oral test on America before being put forward for nomination aswell "Hey why not get the best guy for the job next time"

also what I would like to see is if a potential candidate makes a promise for example make the drinking age higher and if that doesn’t happen when that particular candidate is elected at some point in their term they are punished for each promise broken

potentially a jail term because it is a pretty important job and if he makes a promise to the whole country and breaks it and practically lied his way into office and should 100% be punished for it also I think Britain needs to adopt Democracy because right now we are stuck with Gordon Brown and he really is not the right guy for the job is he.

So well done America for adopting a right technique (democracy) but it needs to be tweaked slightly to achieve great results e.g. best candidate possible.



[edit on 1-1-2009 by Anti - Government]

Originally posted by Jenna

Originally posted by kvaniu

I have a question for everyone; why is it so important to have a president born in the US, where you could have someone born somewhere else and came over here as a baby they would have the same mentality as anyone else here.

I would have to disagree with you there. There was a documentary I watched recently that interviewed Asian-Americans who may have been born here, can't remember that detail since it didn't seem particularly important at the time, but their parents had immigrated here from Japan, China, etc. The people they interviewed had absolutely no desire to be an American or to participate in American culture. Instead they wanted to identify themselves as Japanese, Chinese, etc. and have very little to do with Americans in general. These were people that grew up here. Yet they most certainly did not have the same mentality as anyone else here.

Okay then what about the millions of people whom emigrated from the UK, Ireland, Germany, the Nederlands, France, etc during the 19th & early 20th century lots of the children became americanized

You could also have a person born in the US who has no interest in the culture what stops them from becoming president. Many people born on border states take more from Mexican and Canadian cultures but that isnt a problem if they turn around an run for president.

Then there comes a question how long and what makes a person choose to what type of culture they want to be apart, I can speak for my self there are things my parents, grandparents and greatgrandparents who are born in the US do that you would never see me do that are apart of the culture.

What exactly is the American culture; you send a person from the middle of Montana to NYC they will not fit in just like sending a person from the big city to the country I can't think of one thing that you could use to describe any majority of the population of America.

There is an American culture persay there are several cultures with in America. Look at how people live and interact with others throughout the different regions of the US