What part of the post do you take as being “beside the point” and what is the point you had wanted to make ?
Probably more Canadian than American actually…
The americans have different behavior like the european peoples.
The american behavior is too agressive and too wild,always looking for action and living too much in the popularity.(appreciate too much guns and violation like in a action film.)
They always convince they do the right things. (they wrong sometimes)
You mean like football hooligans?
Most of the americans are friendly,like cool things.
I am. Most people are genuinely friendly…
These are good objects but most of them are too wild in the same way
Whole Europe is try to attend the american claims, but looks impossible
This is my opinion from the United States
I’m not sure what you mean here. I agree some Americans are very naive-acting as shown by our current political process as evidenced by the spectacularly unexceptional line up of Republican opposition candidates. I’m not sure what else you mean as something is getting lost in translation…
Probably more Canadian than American actually…
You’re suprise me,I meet here many tipical american veteran or policemen charachter and patriot (muscular or gross,above 40 with mustache)
You mean like football hooligans?
No.
I think the american genre is build on the feeling of the liberty and the big partiotism.
Their feelings are so strong and define their view and behavior.
The americans living faster life like the europeans.
I am. Most people are genuinely friendly…
This is a good thing
I’m not sure what you mean here. I agree some Americans are very naive-acting as shown by our current political process as evidenced by the spectacularly unexceptional line up of Republican opposition candidates. I’m not sure what else you mean as something is getting lost in translation
I mean the United States lead a high line of lifestyle,everybody tries to agree this line.
Every country imitate the american lifestyle and peoples all over the world.
Quote by IMI :"I mean the United States lead a high line of lifestyle,everybody tries to agree this line.
Every country imitate the american lifestyle and peoples all over the world. "
If I may give this a try, does your above statement mean that The people of the U.S. have a high standard of living, ( freedom to make the life they want, monetary wealth, possessions, education, housing,and leisure activities) and that other peoples,and Countries try to have these things for themselves, and live as U.S. citizens do. This may be true, though I think many other countries party far more then Americans do, (despite what the media may portray) not everyone is interested in having bunches of stuff, and as its called here, “keeping up with the Jones’s” (having the same ,or better stuff than your neighbors) is less prominent a pass time.
The Country is just too large, and different from one area to another to define in simple terms. Live here for several years, and you might get an idea of what we as a Nation are like. (except for California, no one knows what they are on about 
) Lastly, we are the soup that has been made from all of the different people who came here to live in our melting pot.
I got a feeling that it is a mistake to discuss an American history and its relation to the rest of the world as a whole.
The situation was different before 1945 and it is much different right now.
I believe millions of people should never forget what U.S. did in WW2 and the price Americans paid, no doubt about it.
But I also think the Americans today are getting what they deserve for all the mistakes they did after 1945 and for the role in the world politics they wanted.
This is a little late, but so be it. All good questions, Chevan. With the hindsight that recent history gives us, I think it’s accurate to say that the Iraq war was driven - literally and figuratively - by George Bush, **** Cheney (Darth Vader) and Donald Rumsfeld. There would have been no war at all if these three (at least these three) hadn’t pushed for it so vigorously and so outrageously. The Republican party enthusiastically embraced this stupidity, but, more shockingly, at least to me, the leading lights of the Democratic Party acted with disgraceful cowardice and craven fear, not wanting to appear to be “weak”. They were weak in the face of the lies put out by the Bush administration.
This is very much like the reaction of both the Republicans and the Democrats in the face of Senator Joe McCarthy’s accusations during the anti-communist witch hunts by the House Un-American Activities Committee: abject submission, cowardice and craven fear. Even President Eisenhower - who was a rather pragmatic and sensible president - kept his mouth shut, preferring to let this very bad man look under every bed to see if there were communists hiding under them. So this isn’t the first time - and surely not the last - that we will see such behavior on the part of many Americans. We can go on and discuss the disgraceful behavior of this nation in the face of blatant racism a full 100 years (and continuing in some parts of the country today) after the Civil War but let’s leave that to another thread.
I agree that the “vision” of those living in the coastal areas - east and west - is generally more outward looking compared to those who live in the interior of the country. Like all generalities, there are exceptions all over the place. In general, the trajectory of the nation is usually onward and upward, but it is a very bumpy ride. We currently have a very toxic political climate that thrives on division, hyper-conservatism, and the joy of saying “No.” This too shall pass.
The underlying question is why was it in the apparently conflicting interests of the Republicans and the Democrats to do this?
One answer, which unifies both parties in acting it the national interest, and which makes a lot more sense than non-existent weapons of mass destruction, is that the real weapon of mass destruction was to the American economy by Iraq moving its petrodollar currency from the $US to the Euro, which if Eurodollars were allowed to become the standard for oil trading would have shattered the US economy which was based on oil underpinning its dollar after the gold standard was abandoned by Nixon in the early 1970s with oil as the de facto mineral replacing gold as the mineral underpinning the $US and relevant trade.
I do! Can’t stand America and Israel. Firstly America has caused all wars since WWII by invading and attacking (which Germany was accused of 70 years ago) and Israel? Stolen blood land.
I don’t know why I’m bothering to respond to such an idiotic post, apart from a futile desire to educate you a little.
Check out which side started the invasion and aggression in Korea, Vietnam and GW1.
Did America fly planes into Kabul’s tallest buildings just to piss off the Taliban and bin Laden?
Do you think America did something wrong by trying to stop the butchery in Bosnia?
As for starting all wars since WWII, America wasn’t even involved in most of them, let alone starting them. For example, the butchery in the Iran / Iraq war; sundry wars of spectacular butchery in various parts of Africa, Asia and the Middle East, not to mention more or less internal butchery such as former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and Cambodia.
Sure, the US has been involved in many wars for its own purposes since WWII. Just like every other country that was involved in them.
Sure, the US can be a mammoth international pain in the arse when it uses its military and economic muscle to pursue its aims and screw less powerful nations, and its hypocrisy in such endeavours is as breathtakingly offensive and magnificently unconvincing as that of other nations doing the same thing.
Would you rather have the Stalinist / Kruschev USSR; Mao’s PRC and all the vicious suffering of its Great Leaps Forward and Cultural Revolution; Iran’s mullahs; the Taliban; the Mau Mau; Mugabe and his bullshit veterans; sundry mongrels in Algeria, the Horn of Africa etc; and assorted other oppressive movements and regimes and dictatorships, or the US as the basis for the free world which gives you the liberty to express an opinion hostile to the US which you couldn’t do if it went against the grain of any of those other regimes?
Actually, Germany did invade the odd country, roughly from the English Channel eastward to the USSR, and North Africa.
And, Sunshine, you’ve had your fun with your stupid pro-Nazi post. Do it again and you’ll find yourself banned. No warnings. Just gone. And you won’t get back on again.
“What have the Romans ever done for us ?” Oh, never mind. As for Vonss, why ban him ? After all, his often-dim posts are merely contradictory - not like the argumentative trolling indulged by some. “This is an argument/No, it’s contradiction/No it isn’t/yes it is” … JR.
Aqueduct.
Sanitation.
Roads.
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Security. Couldn’t walk the streets at night before the Romans came.
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And peace.
I don’t know why I’m bothering to respond to such an idiotic post, apart from a futile desire to educate you a little.
Because you ask a questioned and I answered it, and you have to have the last say.
Its not an idiotic post.
Why do you think the whole world hates America more than Germany and England? No other country had dictated war and controlled war and invaded other nations like America had done. I dispersed Israel as-well. They can’t even share land with the natives without taking over the whole country (Native Aussies have more rights than Palestinians) but Germany 70 years ago was punished for the same actions. Winners rewrite history and can do what they want… = too the whole world hating America just like the world hated Nazi Germany from 1933-1945.
News to me, RS, but I highly doubt it. Bush was after a quick, cheap victory based on he and Cheney’s unrivaled ignorance and stupidity. Never underestimate the power of stupidity in the affairs of men. I don’t think the Euro had a tinker’s dam to do with it.
Not being one to apologize unduly for my country’s mis-steps over the decades, I prefer to call attention to them when the topic calls for it, but don’t much appreciate it when the slings and arrows are poorly aimed and apparently not based much on facts. Thus I would encourage you to study history a bit more profoundly than your posts indicate so far. I’m not opposed to your posting, however, but you might call less attention to yourself if your published thoughts were more accurate. Unless you enjoy being a deer caught in the headlights, of course.
I didn’t know that we started the war in Chechnya, Vonns, or that we were the instigators behind the breakup of Yugoslavia, or the secret partners of the rebels in Algeria and the Philippines and, oh yes, in Northern Ireland and elsewhere. Oh, and the Hungarian uprising and that dismal Czechoslovakian uprising as well. Damn! Let me check those history books again… everything since WW2, you say?
My brother who has lived in Belgium for forty or so years tells me that the problem with Americans is rampant “individualism” and the problem with Europeans is rampant “envy”. I’m still mulling this over… One thing I know for sure: you can’t generalize about Americans very well any more than you can generalize about Europeans.
I love it that we speak the same language but at the same time can’t make out what you’re talking about. Shaw was right.
Cricket will never make it here - we already have a “slow” ball game. People do play rugby around here but with American football raised to gladiatorial status, it’s unlikely to make significant inroads. Soccer - your football - is another matter entirely. As for cycling, well, we have proven that we are the equal to our European brethren in the capacity to dope along with the “best” of them.
Most of the “whiz-bang” Hollywood spectaculars aren’t worth spending a plug nickel on. Computer graphics have become so “good” that they’ve become quite boring in the process.
I agree completely that the “winner-loser” mentality is a sickness to be dealt with - that and the lionizing of professional athletes as “role-models” when they in fact they are most often no such thing, but then that’s probably a world-wide phenomenon.
Sorry, 32Bravo, we outnumber you!