Not at all. But I don't like is the arrocancy (sp?)
"We are the best" and stuff. You call that "being patriotic" right?


"God bless this acid house!"
"I was near the scene of another crime at the time, officer."

arogance mixed with ignorance of other cultures does get very annoying at times

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You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose.

It is actually cultural ignorance on the part of many Americans. The only things we are ever really taught about other nations are where they stood in the wars we've fought. Our school systems have a bad habit of giving us impressions that the outside world is vastly different from our own. Rather than help improve that image other nations would rather yell and scream at us. America is the best in many ways but not in everything. I think alot of the laws we have are ridiculous and we are too much of a violent society. But no one can deny our patriotism. Some of us take it a bit far. Unfortunately it is those individuals who recieve the most attention.

America are only best in a lot of things because you have a huge population and a lot of money, so compaired to most countrys you have an unfair advantage. Sports for instence if you have 200 million potential athletes and the best training you will of coarse do better than a country with 20 million people and almost no budget for sports at all

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You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose.

I don't think it's any one thing that causes it, probably many things. For example some don't like our foreign policy and take it out on us directly, when we have little control over it. Other reasons may be we seem to have way more than our fair share of jackasses on the internet. Minor, but more and more people use it every day. I do think American arrogance is exaggerated a bit. Most everybody you meet will at least have some manners (please, thank you) but you don't hear from them because they either can't afford to travel (yes, can't afford) or can't travel very far. We do have a lot of stupid/arrogant/cruel people though. It isn't common to hear people say "If you don't like the country than move to [insert country here" which strikes me as odd. Blindly accepting whatever the country does is not what being American is about, nor telling people that they can be crammed into a building filled with nerve gas if they oppose the war.

At least for every person we have like that, there are a few more that will be nice and try to learn more about you.

The rest of the world do feel threatend by the USA. You have a lot of power and a reputation for using it


ps. i dont think this tread will last long (no politics after all)

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You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose.

This isn't necessarily about politics... more or less... it's about culture. If this thread gets closed it will be ridiculous. I say as long as this thread is productive then it should be left open. So Star... other countries seriously feel threatened that America is going to march in and invade them when they don't agree with us? If that's true, then I think alot of you are being paranoid. The same paranoia that we are tagged for having. We're not like Nazi Germany or Napoleonic France. We only fight someone when there is a damn good reason. No, not for oil.

lol.. by the way... our population is fast approaching 300 million. Just in the interest of keeping this thread productive... why not tell us some of your culture that you think differs from America. I'd love to learn about all you guys and maybe give you some insight into America's.

in Defence of Americans I find that the French was even more Arragant (spelling), sorry to any french visistors, it's just an Obversation

- A Top Gun Through and Through -

its more of a subcosious irrational fear. Anyway you do have a tendancy of choosing sides in conflicts that have nothing to do with you.

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You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose.

Lol.. you can tell right away that Top Gun is British... lol

I agree. Our government can be a pain in the rectum when it comes to conflicts that have nothing to do with us. As contradictory as it sounds, America has a strong emphasis on the value of human life. When we see a country being harrassed or invaded by one that is much more powerful, we jump in because we find it to be ridiculous. I know what you're going to say.. well what about Afghanistan and Iraq? First of all, Iraq has had it coming for a long time. They never fully complied with the UN the first time sanctions were imposed against them. Plus, everyone knows Saddam Huessin will try another Kuwait-style invasion of someone once they build their military back up. The Taliban was responsible for the attack on the World Trade Center. So we hit back. How that relates to helping lesser countries out.. we only do so when the lesser country has done little to nothing as far as instigating a war. South Korea is a perfect example. North Korea was going to force the South Koreans against their will to become one nation. So, we intervened. Kosovar-Albanians were being killed by Slobodan Milosevic so we jumped in there as well.

Was it really that Obivous?

- A Top Gun Through and Through -

And the South Vietnamese were living under a dictator who'd stolen the elections in a coup d'état. When popular sentiment was against him you lot stepped in and used the country to test chem weapons. You supported Augusto Pinochet's coup in Chile and hey, who sold (or should I say gave) Saddam his first chemical weapons? The US of A, that's who.

And please, block this thread. Soon?


- Israeli by birth, Israeli by fate, Israeli by heart