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Re: Cheap American shot (Was: NEW Mindstorms set shown (with picture!))
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sun, 30 Jan 2000 21:51:25 GMT
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I would like to applaud Kyle for writing a very mature post without any
naming calling. I was beginning to think that it wasn't possible.
What I feel some of us are failing to realize is that every country is
essentially the same. There are some differences, i.e. government, culture,
etc, but for all intents and purposes, people are people and they are who
make up these countries. There are intelligent people in the United States.
There are intelligent people in Canada. There are intelligent people in
Germany, England, Brazil, Puerto Rico, and China. There are also less
intelligent people in each of these countries. That doesn't change. I
suppose there are some Americans (1) that can't find a specific state on a
map (though the statement that there are people from the United States who
can't find the US on a map is absurd). Likewise, I would wager that there
are Canadians who can not find a particular province in Canada and English
who do not know where Wales is and Europeans who can not point out a
specific country in Europe ( a feat that I feel is comparable to an American
locating a particular state, given the similarities in size between the US
and Europe and the individual states and countries within each). What this
boils down to is that there are going to be people of similar abilites in
each country, continent, region, etc. and the people of the world need to
understand that.
Now, as far as this trend that seems to be in place of "bashing" the United
States; what is the deal? I ask this question of my girlfriend all of the
time. I am from the United States, she is from Guatemala (which is in
Central American, just above South America, for those people in *any*
country that may not know). She has an awful habit of throwing out these
anti-US barbs one minute and then following up with a comment about how the
US should be helping this country or another in the next minute. This
opinion seems to be held by a good bit of the world. What I would like to
know, seeing as how I can receive international input, is this: what does
the world have against the United States?
-Jonathan
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