Americans

• Axx wrote on 2010-04-16 19:53
  Well of course, it's always everyone else that's really dumb. It's also the loud, obnoxious, and ignorant people who get the media time. In reality, most Americans aren't any different than an average person in any other 1st world country. Remember all those Youtube clips of asking Americans simple questions that they get wrong? I guarantee you can find people like that the entire world over. It's just that the whole world likes to make fun of America.
  
  I personally wish there'd be less focus about healthcare (it wasn't even a major issue in the 2004 elections) and more focus on education. Everyone cuts the education budget for some reason, even though there's no point because the government is still gonna keep spending money it doesn't have.
• Iyasenu wrote on 2010-04-16 19:55
  :no!::no!::no!::no!:
  Nuuuuuu!!! Dun haet meh for being Amurricahn~
  :evil:
  Hate me for being pinkuu~ and [FONT="Comic Sans MS"]LOVING IT![/FONT]
• Zid wrote on 2010-04-16 20:56
  It's always the wrong kind of people getting seated into being the representatives for America.
  
  Both Democrats and Republicans.
  
  Then again, I don't have the sway of politics on my fingertips, so what? As far as I see it, America is a mixture of some of the worst and best things in the world. Of course, everybody loves the excitement of the bad things.
  
  The only fact that is true is America waves a big military stick.
• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2010-04-16 21:33
  Retardism is actually a global epidemic
  just like obesity
• Aravan wrote on 2010-04-17 01:42

  Quote from BobYoMeowMeow;6037:

  Retardism is actually a global epidemic
  just like obesity

  
  
  The cat is right. People are people, where ever you go. And it's ALWAYS "Us vs Them", whether its nationality, religion, the rival high school, or the darn Jones' next door.
  
  And Culture.
  America is a baby country. We are only two hundred years old. We didn't have any power until after world war II. We are still young and ...stupid. *shakes head* Not stupid. (We hammer that square peg in or invent a machine to do so!) But very brash. Our settlers are those that left everything they knew for a strange land. That's likely where this over-blown stubbornness/pride comes from.
  
  
  Our first settlers were religious zealots. Puritans. So now we have a complex. Serious sex talk is taboo, so we can't get enough of it. And yeah, we are fat. Most industrial countries are getting fatter. Too many great video games!
  
  Democrats are tagged as liberal (they side with gays, abortion rights, etc) and Republicans are conservative (prudes that use religion despite the "separation of church and state"), and with a he-said, she said struggle... and i swear a lot of the strife is pure spite. AND THE FREAKING LOBBYISTS! Lobbyists are people that are paid to talk senators over to their side. Think tobacco or oil industries. And the "clean coal" commercials they put out make me laugh. The only people that believe that crap are the same ones that say "the bible says" but has never read it for themselves. (The bible also says that you can't cut the edges of your beard, Leviticus 19:27. The previous chapter was the one that said gays are abominations. Read for yourself, and laugh at all the preachers who dare cut their beards but rail against gays. Take the whole bible or nothing, sheesh.)
  
  If only America had listened to President Roosevelt when he said, "Speak softly, but carry a big stick." We are terribly loud and like to show everyone how big our stick is, like the teenager country we are... and bluntly, I think we make the world more interesting for our pushy, idealistic ways.
• Frawmus wrote on 2010-04-17 01:48
  I'm in denial that I am an american. Due to our government.. Being pretty messed up atm.
• Tarvos wrote on 2010-04-17 02:10
  I really don't judge a country's people so much, since, everywhere, there will be idiots. And the idiots stick out a lot more then the decent people. There's plenty of good people in America, you just have to wade through the morons, the ignorant, the bigots, the oppressive fundamentalists, the crappy politicians, etc. However, I see America and Americans generally, as not the brightest bulb on the Christmas Tree, but, there are other bulbs that are worse, and others that outshine it. (FYI, I'm American, just so you know)
  
  The only thing I don't like about America really is the sheer amount of ignorance that some people hold in religious, political, and racial affairs. Again though, there's stupid people all over the world, and America is just in the spotlight most of the time.
• Lan wrote on 2010-04-17 02:18
  I dislike the US on principal and a bit of ignorance mixed in ^_^
• Haydrian wrote on 2010-04-17 05:26

  Quote from Frawmus;6524:

  I'm in denial that I am an american. Due to our government.. Being pretty messed up atm.

  
  
  Hahaha I'm in denial about being Canadian sometimes.
  
  I'm not an American but when i think of America i think of Canada honestly. The people between the two countries are pretty similar as are the trends and politics. So really I think of this as more of a "North America" question myself.
• emomutt wrote on 2010-04-17 05:53
  i hate and terrified of virtually all humans. but amerika is just begging to be nuked
• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2010-04-19 02:29

  Quote from emomutt;6852:

  i hate and terrified of virtually all humans. but amerika is just begging to be nuked

  
  
  then the media will be all like
  OMG
  FIRST WAR ON AMERICAN SOIL
  
  it has never happened before
  the cat will be interested in the results