Sorry Dale, I love America and Americans, but they are second to none in both arrogance and superiority complexes, even ones who have accomplished absolutely nothing of worth in their own lives, all they need to do is loudly and mindlessly chant, USA! USA! USA! and they're instantly the kings and queens of the universe. It's kind of sad when you think about it. America used to be first in the world at everything, but pretty much the only exceptional export they have anymore is their culture; films, television, music, etc., and a lot of that is consumed world-wide more in the nature of people going to a zoo than anything else.
I know it's not the average American's fault because of the woefully lack of awareness of your own country's foreign policy, but the States, rightly or wrongly, interfered with the internal affairs of almost every country on Earth during the Cold War, feeling justified because any means was worth the ends of containing Communism. But in the meantime, millions of people world-wide suffered under totalitarian regimes either created by CIA sponsored coups, or existing ones that only continued to exist due to American sponsorship.
None of you really shouldn't be at all surprised when America is so hated by wide swaths of the planet, like Central and South America, the Middle East, etc., and in fact more enlightened and informed Americans I meet actually have more conciliatory attitudes similar to the Germans after the Second World War, they acknowledge and apologize for the immense suffering America has inflicted, and they work at doing what they can from it continuing.
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wombat274
9 years ago
So to summarize Greg, you're saying Americans are second to none in both arrogance and superiority complexes, and they apologize for the immense suffering America has inflicted, and they work at doing what they can from it continuing. Makes total sense.
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