"A4Ever, this thread is turning into an American bashing thread. What??? US has done something bad? WTF are you talking about If you believe Americans are the most blindly patriotic people in the world you are mistaken. I have lived in many countries in my life. Most of you don't besides just your own. Yes. I stand by my country no matter they do good things or bad. It is not because I am ignorant, but because it is consistent with my belief how world politics should work. Without making the thread going into a different direction that is all I am going to say. I am not in a mood to type something long. In democratic country all our important government officials are elected. If they do something terrible we are all responsible. If we elected horrible government officials, that is because either people are horrible or people don't pay enough attention. Once they are elected we should stand behind them instead of bashing them. (like Bush)"
First off, I'm not big on US bashing. Generally people who do that are those who just like to knock the big dog no matter what.
Second, I did not say Americans are the most blindly patriotic. However, I do disagree with you. Patriotism when it consists of standing by whatever your elected officials do is detrimental. He fucked over another country to get oil? Shit, we voted him in, God Bless America! He killed thousands when it wasn't necessary (note: this is hypothetical)? Fucking A - he did what we voted him into do; God Bless America! Not a good idea.
"So you are claiming US is the most arrogant country in the world? First of all how can you possible know that if you haven't lived in any other countries? How exactly do you measure arrogance? Are you making your claim based on a few anecdotal examples? Based on what you said above, you are confused bewteen ignorance and arrogance. There are ignorant people in every country."
I have spent about 2/3 of my life in Canada. The rest was spent in the States (mainly), France, Switzerland, England (briefly), Germany, Belgium, Russia (briefly), Mexico, Jamaica, Antigua, Barbados, Israel, Japan (briefly) and a couple other places. A few anecdotes is not what I consider my experiences. I spent 2 months in Detroit when I was 13 playing hockey, 3 1/2 months in Portugal when I was 12 and 3 months in France between two visits. Those are hte only three countries I would consider myself understanding of besides my own.
"Let me give you couple examples. In class room in US saying "US is the greatest country in the world" is considered politically incorrect. In Japan, kids in class room are not only taught Japan is the greatest country in the world, but they are taught Japanese are the "most intelligent" people in the world. What about Japanese flag? Land of the rising sun."
The people I met in Detroit looked at me as if I was an alien when I mentioned the camps America had once set up for Natives. Ditto the interment camps in WWII. Of course, I (and they) was only 13. American education system is sad, and Canada's appears to be getting even sadder, though in a different way. Anyway, I'm curious to hear about this Japanese thing. Did you learn or teach there?
"In China, they don't call their country "China". That is what the West call them. They called their country the "center country". They are the center of the earth. China is not the most powerful country in the world right now, but they have accumulated enough arrogance from being a super power since 5000 B.C."
Communism doesn't hurt to make that a fact either.
"BTW, I never said racism doesn't exist. I have said not only racism exist, but it goes both ways. Caucasians are not anymore racist than any other races out there. A little bit of racism can be a good thing. I am not bothered by racism personally. Only wussies are."
No, it was Banshee who said that. Something about how she doesn't believe different races exist therefore racism is not a real thing.