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Originally posted by daaskapital
Most posters who are American on ATS cannot and will not attempt to comprehend other religions/cultures, they show no respect or interest. As i outlined earlier, i am not Muslim, i just have respect for other countries and cultures.
Originally posted by diakrite
Here I am, hoping this could be a thread-starter with some viable arguments why Americans, apparently,suck...
What do I get? An obviously b...hurt closet-muslim i want my money back.... Grrmbll
By the by, how would You feel when everybody looked at You as an unpleasant person júst because Your country has some amazing moronic loudmouths.. Oh.. You wouldn't understand, because You did just thàt of which You accuse us... Mirror, mirror, and some planks&splinters for good measure.
Originally posted by daaskapital
I am sick and tired of reading responses on ATS coming from Americans who can't grasp the ideas and respect other cultures. Why does it happen? Is it your retarded education? Or is the de-sensitising and dumbing down of your nation taking effect?
Most of them are ignorant to other cultures
I'm sick and tired of the Americans complaining about the "American Bashing Threads." For some reason, you all have some mental dysfuntion
Their laws originate from their religion and culture which span back thousands of years.
Originally posted by daaskapital
I am sick and tired of reading responses on ATS coming from Americans who can't grasp the ideas and respect other cultures. Why does it happen? Is it your retarded education? Or is the de-sensitising and dumbing down of your nation taking effect?
Seriously, at least do some research before writing comments which are clearly ignorant and sometimes offensive to others.
I will use the thread about the Quran burnings as an example:
www.abovetopsecret.com...
In this thread, people, namely Americans are replying with idiotic statements such as:
Is every copy of the quran really that sacred. It is just paper after all, and many more copies of the words can be found in all corners of the world.
Just another example of the idiotic idea of religion causing undo stress.
Because religious morons think if ink prints something on plant fiber that represents their idiotic beliefs that that medium is now holy to them and anything bad that happens to that stupid book is an attack on their ignorant, idiotic beliefs.
It's just a damn book. It is full of error and it enslaves people
Because some stupid books (and yes, I mean STUPID) get destroyed, accidently or not, that's NOT a reason for people to run around like a bunch of neanderthals threatening other people.
Those people are savages! So burning a piece of paper with ink on it is a legit reason to become violent and want to kill people?
So our soldiers were forced to burn the Bible as trash, now because its their holy book and not ours its horrible and atrocious? I think not.
I wouldn't even apologize.
This here are just some of the comments made up from 3 pages. Now i must say, some of the comments there are intellectually written and well researched, but as you can see, most of them are ignorant posts, whose authors have no idea what they are going on about. This is just one example, and there are many others floating around on ATS and other sites, and i am sorry to say, it appears that the majority of Americans are not smart enough to actually comprehend other cultures.
So now, i ask of you, please research before writing your posts.
Note: I am not racist, so please don't take this personally/emotionally as you all tend to do.edit on 22-2-2012 by daaskapital because: Title
Originally posted by MaMaa
I know this is just a rant, but I honestly do not think this is just an American thing. This is the human condition, we lack empathy with others, ALL of us! Do you honestly think that it is just American's who have no respect for others beliefs or have damn near zero knowledge of other countries culture? How many people in the rest of the world are ignorant of my beliefs and my culture? I'd bet a very large percentage!
People can be rather insulated from others and believe that them, their beliefs and their culture is the one and true way. That by it's very nature in most cases makes anyone else, their beliefs and their cultures 'wrong' and not worth attention, respect or awareness. This isn't about American's vs. everyone else's beliefs and cultures, this is about ignorance and a lack of empathy. "those" people over "there" mentality has created a mental separation from other humans and until we can restore empathy for others then the world isn't going to change. Love they neighbor and all that jazz... how many other cultures and beliefs do you personally understand and respect? Do your beliefs go against someone else's beliefs?
P.S. Ignorance is not a bad thing, it simply means that you lack the knowledge or information to a particular subject.
He was talking about American Democracy.
Originally posted by Andronian
reply to post by Jace26
To state that Democracy is bad medicine is to show your ignorance...one day I feel the will of the people will indeed rule..that is the true nature of democracy...not your watered down biased opinion of it's true meaning.
Anything less is not true freedom.