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Originally Posted by CarlosTheGaucho
Here's a problem I face very often, a thread on another board inspired me, when someone speaks about "Europeans accusing Americans of something"...
I'm always feeling a bit weird when I hear someone talking about "Europeans".
There never was and never will be any "European nation".
Europe is a mess, where there's no unity and one nation practically only wants to always fuck another nation over, although the more economical part is "united" now on paper.
The mere number of idiots and ignorant people in Europe is statistically just about the same as in US, and both sides are mainly afraid of the dark when dealing with the other side, the problem I see, is that this is now becoming worse than ever, why?
If both cultures rather took the effort to learn and understand the other culture, the history, the sociopolitical climate, at least a little bit, a little, the world would be much, much better place.
The mere amount of prejudices against Americans here is extreme and the ignorance is unwearable.
It is pissing me off so much, that I'm avoiding these topics, otherwise I usually end up in a rough argument with someone who:
a) never dealt with US
b) doesn't know anything about US
c) never was in US
BUT thinks he's more qualified to pass a judgment than me, who
1) spends in average 30 days a year in US
2) deals with US daily for the past 5 years
3) studied US political / legal system and history
Those people are so lazy, that they're happy with their dogmas and idiotic bullshit - just to avoid thinking, or effort to understand something a little bit complex, and something a little bit different.
Why is there so much tension if practically only VERY FEW pct. of each side have ANY reasonable first hand experience with the other side, or is this exactly the reason?
Combined with the unrestricted access to bullshit and tabloid type of news in these days Global Village?
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I see the EEC very united and as one i see them very influent.
Sarkozy and Brown arent the best of friends, but they never get to back stab each other, like unfortunatlly happens way to often in the US congress between Democrats and Republicans.
I see that the Euro didn't fail like US economists said it would have, it has taken over many monetary markets in the middle east and asia and most probably will take over the dollar as the world wide currency in a few decades.
I respect what you have to say, but i don't see all that hate for Americans or their policy in the EEC. Obama is very popular and respected among the people and their political representatives. My father remembers still when the Americans liberated Italy from the Nazi's in 45 and has great respect for the American people, like millions of others.
I dont say the Europeans hate the americans, but they did hate George W. Bush, but hes gone :P