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Originally Posted by PunchDrunkHighOn_?
I thought you were gonna make some kind of grand political statement but then you started talking about a girl buying a dress ;D
People hate Americans because you elected a retard a president (hope this helps ;))
I don't make grand political staments, country's are run by money hungry men that are focused on their own pockets, but to go off of your statement people felt that way long before this guy was elected into office, so you may want to eleborate on your statement. Second off why are you focusing on the little girl or the dress genius. You were suppose to focus on the way the American treated the French lady, I guess that one ran right past you.
Dude I think that one ran past everybody ::**
I can only speak for myself and I appreciate alot of American culture, but I also despise your gun culture, country music, the fact that your responsible for most of global warming and refuse to aknowledge that, the way you invent your own sports which nobody else plays, the way you chant USA when your a F****** continent for fucks sake 50 F****** states and you wonder why you win the olympics over country's a 10th of your size, those MTV programs with girls who spend $1m on their 16th birthday parties, oh and you elected Dubya twice
I actually like America but politically your government are corrupt scum and alot of your culture is very irritating to the rest of the world
That's the spirit soldier. Thanks for the honesty (sincerely). But one things that puzzles me is if this is the case stop F****** supporting the US.
1. You buy all American music
2. You buy all American movies
3. American clothing
etc etc
This is all across the world not just in Britian. American rap music is the number one seller in America now you have British people into hip hop. ???
We will tell the big county's in the world to stop being proud of winning in the olympics (China, Russia, US even my beloved Brazil)
You admire the American elite such as actors, musicians, entertainers and despise the little person such as the common citizen and minorities. That is not fair I tell you that much.
We do agree on one thing and that is the American government, or at least this one in office now.
spot on, as much as we hate to admit it we F****** LOVE American culture. I'm telling ya the Simpsons is more popular per person in the UK than it is the USA, and part of that is down to the influence that british humour has had on american comedy but its also to do with the fact we can't get enough of American culture! We were raised on Rock n Roll, Jazz, Hip Hop, Coca Cola, Porno, Hollywood, Beef Jerky, and people saying "have a nice day" and stupid S*** like that when you get served. We can't get enough of it!
Culturally the United States is a F****** phenomenon. Go look through your CD's and see how many of them are American. How many of the last films you saw are american? Never forgot how much America has given the world culturally. America is like an experiment, still in its early stages, there's been no nation on earth like it before and therefore it has enriched the world in completely unusual and unique ways.
I lived in Boston for a while and they loved me, everyone was dead polite and nice and thought my accent was cute. I speak with a coarse variety of Yorkshire accent, but put on the fake posh accent and the women LOVE IT!! The only yanks I've ever got any S*** off are the wannabe irish ones, the one's who've lived in the USA 6 generations and yet seem to think that they're allowed to hate the english coz of some insignificant irish heritage. Its funny really, being yanks they have little or no idea of the world beyond their own borders, but are vaguely aware of some animosity between the english and the irish so feel the need to make something of it, not realising that NO-ONE GIVES A F*** about it all over here. Other than that Americans are lovely people, but I've never been anywhere in Red State america so it could be different down there.
Having said that the Deep South is probably different, but I still wanna go there. I wanted to see New Orleans really badly when I was younger, it was one on my ambitions, and its fucked up that its STILL a disaster zone and that really pains me. I watched Spike Lee's When the Levee's Broke recently and nothing has made me as angry as that film, heads need to roll for what happened down there, and it really hurts to see that cit in the state its in. The worst bit is they're just gonna bulldoze the slums and build big fake tourist traps and S*** like that to get the tourists back, ruining the atmosphere of the place. Gutting.
There's a lot of things to dislike though. There's been too much yanky a*** kissing here so lets change tone. Rampant capitalist individualism that isn't good for the well-being of the nation, I mean could you ever imagine how S*** it'd be without an NHS? There'd be riots if they ever tried to got rid of that in this country, and yet over in America there aint none!! How does that stand ideologically, I mean I know there's a right-wing edge to US politics but thats just basic human rights to have healthcare, to deprive 40 million people of their health is really bad.
There's also a nasty puritannical streak running through the country too, thats reflected in the conservatism that you get outside the big cities. Not political conservatism, just a general resistance to change and a stagnant atmosphere. I've not seen too much of small-town mid-western america, but it seems a very conservative place. Things like abortion, safe sex, gayness, observance of the sabbath, alcohol and drugs prohibition, I mean I don't want to sound patronising but America really is 20 or 30 years behind Europe on those issues, all down to the puritannical heritage. In Boston people were just like at home, but outside the city is changes a lot.
As for Bush, well F*** me thats just too bad for words. There's nothing I could say to describe how much I hate him that wouldn't make me sound like a nutcase. Put it this way I felt physically sick the morning I woke up and found out he'd been re-elected. You lot are going to be apolgizing every time you go abroad for the next 25 years coz of that c***.
