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He added: "generally football games in this country don't devolve into riots or wars." He later added that the sport of soccer "is being sold" as necessary due to the "browning of America."
Originally posted by Legion2112
Not that everyone who participates in this thread will be as such, but so far I've gotta say that you America bashers are really grasping at straws here... and for a mod of all people to be painting an entire country with such broad strokes; classy dude.
These people are shaping the minds of the next political generation. They are narrowing the view, instead of expanding it - is the US simply going to be reduced to a generation of right-wing politicians who, frankly, are going to be a complete liability to the country on a global scale, because they've never even tried to understand anything outside of the US.
Originally posted by ThaLoccster
Because of soccer?
Originally posted by neformore
Originally posted by ThaLoccster
Because of soccer?
No. Because of the attitude.
The attitude of all purveying assumed superiority that this kind of "disimissive of the rest of the world" crap wreaks of.
The football thing is an analogy, and thats all.
Originally posted by neformore
No. Because of the attitude.
The attitude of all purveying assumed superiority that this kind of "disimissive of the rest of the world" crap wreaks of.
Originally posted by ThaLoccster
The claimed broad misunderstanding of the rest of the world by america, is the same broad misunderstanding of america that seems to be held by the rest of the world.
I constantly hear this argument by people who most likely haven't even visited america, or even been closer to an american than a politician or actor on tv, and those are the same exact things they say about americans "most probably haven't left texas their whole life".
Obvious hypocrites are obvious.
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