Why is America so awesome?
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Look, bottom line is that the US is not perfect, but neither is anywhere else. we are complex, composed of many diverse people with many diverse views and opinions. We are soldiers and pacifists, Doctors and Scientists, Lawyers and entertainers. We run every gammit imaginable be it physically mental or emotional. We are just the same as anyone else in the world because we are as diverse as anywhere else in the world. Yes our Governments and our organizations and our people all make mistakes just like anywhere else in the world. what makes us awesome is that we can accept that so many people use this prejudice against us to make us the scapegoat and we still just do not care. I would suggest though that before some people form these prejudices based on our media or on hearsay or even on a few bad meetings perhaps they do more research and maybe even try to visit.
A prejudice, any prejudice, harms us all. It may be easy to write us off based on what is heard or what is said but I promise you all that its far less productive.
A prejudice, any prejudice, harms us all. It may be easy to write us off based on what is heard or what is said but I promise you all that its far less productive.
In total? You're right. But in the last century, when the rest of us have managed to become more civilised and realised we can't just stomp on other countries whenever wey feel like it. Vietnam was invaded because America didn't like the government they chose for themselves after they were removed from French control. Now to me this seems like a pretty bad idea, certainly counterproductive to helping them get on their feet.Evilbunny said:
To clarify my view since I've only just joined this thread, I don't entirely hate America, and I certainly don't hate all Americans, but I do hate the patriotic viewpoint of "our countries better than yours". Patriotism is like fanboyism, but it gets people killed.
If it was so easy, why didn't you do it first? Plus people agree that making a commercial airliner that can go faster than the speed of sound is even harder, and you weren't the first to do that.Evilbunny said:
Meh the US isn't awesome, its a country. but I can tell you one thing, as far as Canada (some people strangely refer to us as america's hat, dunno why though since if you wore a hat with that much larger mass than your head it would be more of a head smashing utensil... and is mexico america's neck? lol) we actually beat the US in a war and burned down the Whitehouse muahaha not many other countries can say that much can they?
Ok first of all you apparently are ill informed about Nam. It started because we went in to help the french back a specific non-communist state which the whole of the western world agreed was better. Thats the problem right there. Your nations are not 'more civilized' you simply depend on the US to do the dirty work and then blame us for doing it. The other nations can turn their heads and say shame on you to us, and sometimes they are in the right, but when they are not it does not matter because we come out looking like the bad guys. Its very convenient to cross your arms and talk down about being civilized when the military actions the various nations bashing the US cary out are usually only minor or along side the US. And why? because if things get bad enough the US will come in like it always does, do the brunt of the fighting, use the most resources and you guys don't have to worry. Yet you wonder why our leaders are so gung ho to solve every problem militarily. I'm not saying all the wars we fight are right, but the ignorance of how other nations are involved needs to stop because using the united states as a scape goat is only going to cause more problems for us all in the long run.Geo Da Sponge said:
Stop! I am here, peace brothers.
I claim one reason why America is awesome; I live here.
Problem solved, everyone go home.
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And America is the strongest force militarily, economically, and politically. Technologically, we are falling behind, and proportionally we are losing ground in every sector, but in total we kick ass.
I claim one reason why America is awesome; I live here.
Problem solved, everyone go home.
...
And America is the strongest force militarily, economically, and politically. Technologically, we are falling behind, and proportionally we are losing ground in every sector, but in total we kick ass.
Short answer. No, America is not awesome. Most of the troubles of today come from America and their school sistem is a joke
I tend to avoid these threads like the plague, but I think I will sidestep the original question and say this:
IMHO the USA is so awesome (powerful & successful) because a huge area of land, full of natural resources and sparsely populated by disparate groups of hunter gatherers was settled by the 3 major European colonial powers. The settlers were then freed from the European obligation to engage in a mass slaughter of your neighbours every few decades because they talk a bit different by France and Britains propensity to engage in a mass slaughter of each other etc etc. Freed from this they decided to work together (genius! and it would only take Europe another 200 years and lots of mass slaughter to think of that) and proceeded to take the vast bountiful land and engage in a mass slaughter of the aforementioned hunter gatherers.
Then they watched in disbelief (or perhaps just weary resignation) as the European empires beat each other to death in a series of mass slaughters of biblical proportion, finally jumped in to stop Europe dissolving into a vast pile of burnt out wreckage and eternal mass slaughter (or let those bloody commies win
) and then found itself to be the only advanced nation on the planet that wasn't broke and half blown up.
Apologies for the punctuation and overuse of the phrase 'mass slaughter'.
IMHO the USA is so awesome (powerful & successful) because a huge area of land, full of natural resources and sparsely populated by disparate groups of hunter gatherers was settled by the 3 major European colonial powers. The settlers were then freed from the European obligation to engage in a mass slaughter of your neighbours every few decades because they talk a bit different by France and Britains propensity to engage in a mass slaughter of each other etc etc. Freed from this they decided to work together (genius! and it would only take Europe another 200 years and lots of mass slaughter to think of that) and proceeded to take the vast bountiful land and engage in a mass slaughter of the aforementioned hunter gatherers.
Then they watched in disbelief (or perhaps just weary resignation) as the European empires beat each other to death in a series of mass slaughters of biblical proportion, finally jumped in to stop Europe dissolving into a vast pile of burnt out wreckage and eternal mass slaughter (or let those bloody commies win
) and then found itself to be the only advanced nation on the planet that wasn't broke and half blown up. Apologies for the punctuation and overuse of the phrase 'mass slaughter'.
Strongest country economically, not force, and even that is debatable. But I was absolutely dumbstruck when reports came out at the end of 2007 that the american economic problems were not going to affect the EU that much... I said it back then and I say it now, you dumb $@%&)&%%()%&%)$%)@!*)@*!@$)$)_!@'s !11fourminusthree!!1!Spleeni said:
The economy of the world is too interlinked to point out a strongest power I think. If Japan falls, everybody falls, if Germany falls, ditto, if America falls, idem, etc...
But yeah, you're big and influential and everybody fears you like the schoolyard bully. To quote the Bard:
"'Tis excellent to have a giant's strength, but 'tis tyrannous to use it like a giant."
So yeah, go you!
(This last bit is meant sarcastic as well as literal and advisingly.)
So, folks who get caught in cross-fire are looking for trouble? Little Jimmy who gets shot by his friend Little Tommy because they're playing with daddy's gun, he was looking for trouble?JOE COOL said:
They are not a tool, as a knife can be - they are a weapon, with one, sole purpose - to kill. They do not deter - they simply change where an attack comes from. The average criminal is not, in fact, stupid - they're at least canny enough to realise that if their target is potentially armed, you simply attack in such a way that their weapon is useless. If you have a gun, and I have a knife, and I think you may be armed, you won't know I'm going to attack you until I've come up behind you with my knife to your throat. If you attempt to pull a weapon, you're dead - your gun suddenly becomes useless, as both a defence and a deterrent, because it never was one.
John Cleese's open letter to the US
To the citizens of the United States of America
In light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately.
Her Sovereign Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths and other territories (except Kansas, which she does not fancy).
Your new prime minister, Tony Blair, will appoint a governor for America without the need for further elections. Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed.
To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:
1. You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary. Then look up "aluminium," and check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it.
2. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'colour', 'favour' and 'neighbour.' Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters, and the suffix "ize" will be replaced by the suffix "ise."
3. You will learn that the suffix 'burgh' is pronounced 'burra'; you may elect to respell Pittsburgh as 'Pittsberg' if you find you simply can't cope with correct pronunciation.
4. Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels (look up "vocabulary"). Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with filler noises such as "like" and "you know" is unacceptable and inefficient form of communication.
5.There is no such thing as "US English." We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take account of the reinstated letter 'u' and the elimination of "-ize."
6. You will relearn your original national anthem, "God Save The Queen", but only after fully carrying out Task #1 (see above).
7. July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday. November 2nd will be a new national holiday, but to be celebrated only in England. It will be called "Come-Uppance Day."
8. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you're not adult enough to be independent. Guns should only be handled by adults. If you're not adult enough to sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then you're not grown up enough to handle a gun.
9. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. A permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.
10. All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap and this is for your own good. When we show you German cars, you will understand what we mean.
11. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric immediately and without the benefit of conversion tables. Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.
12. The Former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been calling "gasoline") -roughly $6/US gallon. Get used to it.
13. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French fries are not real chips, and those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called "crisps." Real chips are thick cut, fried in animal fat, and dressed not with mayonnaise but with vinegar.
14. Waiters and waitresses will be trained to be more aggressive with customers.
15. The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all. Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be referred to as "beer," and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as "Lager." American brands will be referred to as "Near-Frozen Gnat's Urine," so that all can be sold without risk of further confusion.
16. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as good guys. Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to play English characters. Watching Andie MacDowell attempt English dialogue in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" was an experience akin to having one's ears removed with a cheese grater.
17. You will cease playing American "football." There is only one kind of proper football; you call it "soccer". Those of you brave enough will, in time, will be allowed to play rugby (which has some similarities to American "football", but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies).
18. Further, you will stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the "World Series" for a game which is not played outside of America. Since only 2.1% of you are aware that there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable.
19. You must tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us mad.
20. An internal revenue agent (i.e. tax collector) from Her Majesty's Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all monies due backdated to 1776.
Thank you for your co-operation.
John Cleese
To the citizens of the United States of America
In light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately.
Her Sovereign Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths and other territories (except Kansas, which she does not fancy).
Your new prime minister, Tony Blair, will appoint a governor for America without the need for further elections. Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed.
To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:
1. You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary. Then look up "aluminium," and check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it.
2. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'colour', 'favour' and 'neighbour.' Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters, and the suffix "ize" will be replaced by the suffix "ise."
3. You will learn that the suffix 'burgh' is pronounced 'burra'; you may elect to respell Pittsburgh as 'Pittsberg' if you find you simply can't cope with correct pronunciation.
4. Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels (look up "vocabulary"). Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with filler noises such as "like" and "you know" is unacceptable and inefficient form of communication.
5.There is no such thing as "US English." We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take account of the reinstated letter 'u' and the elimination of "-ize."
6. You will relearn your original national anthem, "God Save The Queen", but only after fully carrying out Task #1 (see above).
7. July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday. November 2nd will be a new national holiday, but to be celebrated only in England. It will be called "Come-Uppance Day."
8. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you're not adult enough to be independent. Guns should only be handled by adults. If you're not adult enough to sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then you're not grown up enough to handle a gun.
9. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. A permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.
10. All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap and this is for your own good. When we show you German cars, you will understand what we mean.
11. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric immediately and without the benefit of conversion tables. Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.
12. The Former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been calling "gasoline") -roughly $6/US gallon. Get used to it.
13. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French fries are not real chips, and those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called "crisps." Real chips are thick cut, fried in animal fat, and dressed not with mayonnaise but with vinegar.
14. Waiters and waitresses will be trained to be more aggressive with customers.
15. The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all. Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be referred to as "beer," and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as "Lager." American brands will be referred to as "Near-Frozen Gnat's Urine," so that all can be sold without risk of further confusion.
16. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as good guys. Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to play English characters. Watching Andie MacDowell attempt English dialogue in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" was an experience akin to having one's ears removed with a cheese grater.
17. You will cease playing American "football." There is only one kind of proper football; you call it "soccer". Those of you brave enough will, in time, will be allowed to play rugby (which has some similarities to American "football", but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies).
18. Further, you will stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the "World Series" for a game which is not played outside of America. Since only 2.1% of you are aware that there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable.
19. You must tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us mad.
20. An internal revenue agent (i.e. tax collector) from Her Majesty's Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all monies due backdated to 1776.
Thank you for your co-operation.
John Cleese
Oh come on, you're just poking them with sticks now...an amusing stick, but poking none the less.rossatdi said:
SO where did the average criminal learn all of these ninja stealth moves? And please, stop spouting the typical nonsense about little Timmy blowing his head off because his father was to idiotic to purchase a padlock or put it somewhere out of reach. That is a parental failure. If some dumbass parent placed an open bottle of bleach on the floor and then got angry at Clorox because his son drank it and died, we wouldnt be hearing the same argument. Guns are tools, nothing moreBlueMage said:
Yeah, that English one's almost there, just add a bit of football hooliganism and you're spot on.intergral said:Hahaha! I bet the majority of the non-Americans here haven't even met an American and are going off of stereotypes used in the media.
Well, if all stereotypes are true, then the French are beret wearing, baguette eating pansies! The English MUST be tea drinking, fish and chips eating, cranky, old glooms. The Germans are OBVIOUSLY mayonnaise encrusted, pretzel eating, beer drinking Nazis! Australians are WITHOUT a doubt tanned oafs, with boomerangs, stupid hats and an unhealthy obsession with khaki!
See? You can't judge a whole country's inhabitants on a few misleading stereotypes.
First I'd like to point out we were not the first ones to waste resources getting to then moon,and our "comrades" wasted far more of the most precious resource of all in their space program. Human life.
And they did make it to the moon first,they just didn't manage to slow down before arriving on the surface.
Rest in Peace,comrades.
Why is there so much Hating here? i realize you guys don't like bush. However there have been some events that have come to light more recently....
For instance,we Freaking DID find WMD's in Iraq.
And if you would look up WMD's in Iraq in wiki (ignore the "they didn't find wmd's" it needs updating.)
You would find that a number of countries gave Iraq these WMD's. i won't deny we helped too. But we are far from the main contributor. (All told, 52% of Iraq's international chemical weapon equipment was of German origin.)
And who cleaned it up? Mostly the US,with accompanying forces from other nations.
The Britains always helping like a good friend at out sides.
Germany,you owe us apx $225 Billion for the removal of the WMD's etc. that you provided to Iraq.
(that's a joke by the way. i wonder if any of you Non-Americans have those...)
Not to mention de-throning a tyrant has never been a bad thing,especially a violent one (Who did make use some of those chemical weapons,by the way.).
As of August 2008, around 550 billion U.S. dollars has been spent on the war in Iraq.
So all in all,i think we need to be bashed a little less for that.
And the fact you guys all expected that you'd be told right away when we did find WMD's.. i hate to say it but that's kinda short sighted. War news is always slow in coming.
And now on to the reason why America is so great. (i should know I'm a Californian.)
Every day you wake up and go to work in a decent car Not great but not shabby either.
After a long day at work you come home to your house,and greet your beautiful wife and wonderful kids. You all sit down together and have a good full meal,and then after putting the kids to bed you go to bed yourself with your beautiful wife and a full belly.
That's the American dream basically, The amazing thing is we actually have it here.
Life is good and we need no more than what we have. we are satisfied.
And i think that's the #1 reason the world hates us.
We are a nation of relaxed,satisfied,God loving people.
And we're happy.
And they did make it to the moon first,they just didn't manage to slow down before arriving on the surface.
Rest in Peace,comrades.
Why is there so much Hating here? i realize you guys don't like bush. However there have been some events that have come to light more recently....
For instance,we Freaking DID find WMD's in Iraq.
And if you would look up WMD's in Iraq in wiki (ignore the "they didn't find wmd's" it needs updating.)
You would find that a number of countries gave Iraq these WMD's. i won't deny we helped too. But we are far from the main contributor. (All told, 52% of Iraq's international chemical weapon equipment was of German origin.)
And who cleaned it up? Mostly the US,with accompanying forces from other nations.
The Britains always helping like a good friend at out sides.
Germany,you owe us apx $225 Billion for the removal of the WMD's etc. that you provided to Iraq.
(that's a joke by the way. i wonder if any of you Non-Americans have those...)
Not to mention de-throning a tyrant has never been a bad thing,especially a violent one (Who did make use some of those chemical weapons,by the way.).
As of August 2008, around 550 billion U.S. dollars has been spent on the war in Iraq.
So all in all,i think we need to be bashed a little less for that.
And the fact you guys all expected that you'd be told right away when we did find WMD's.. i hate to say it but that's kinda short sighted. War news is always slow in coming.
And now on to the reason why America is so great. (i should know I'm a Californian.)
Every day you wake up and go to work in a decent car Not great but not shabby either.
After a long day at work you come home to your house,and greet your beautiful wife and wonderful kids. You all sit down together and have a good full meal,and then after putting the kids to bed you go to bed yourself with your beautiful wife and a full belly.
That's the American dream basically, The amazing thing is we actually have it here.
Life is good and we need no more than what we have. we are satisfied.
And i think that's the #1 reason the world hates us.
We are a nation of relaxed,satisfied,God loving people.
And we're happy.
Stuff what was actually going to be in this post. I realise some of it was retarded.
Nevertheless, I still believe the Vietnam War was a)unjustified and b) America's fault for letting it escalate.
Nevertheless, I still believe the Vietnam War was a)unjustified and b) America's fault for letting it escalate.
I've been there (1 year) and liked it but there is no denial that the density of superficial people skyrockets in the Us and it's those people i talk about. If you want the more inteligent part of the population to represent your country they need to get very loud since every "less educated" US citicen seems to backstabs free speech by talking without thinking first.matrix3509 said:
It is true, that nearly 50% of Americans haven't voted Bush but the fact that he was elected is not just a monty pythons sketch but reality. It shows that it is not enough to have some smart people in the country but the avarage has to have some iq too if you want to be a democracy.
Edid: i wasn't thinking about the olympics at all but since you mentioned it, that might have been another example