What Developed Country do you Envy? (Finals)

[Michael-5]

gergroy said:

Michael-5 said:

Zappykins said:

Michael-5 said:

Why are some Americans so stupid? I've been reading this book called "A Peoples History of the United States." and it's pretty interesting. I think Southern Americans got used to slaves a couple hundred years ago, and when slavery was suddenly abolished, they just never stopped being lazy. Give them a book, and proper education, and I think they could be just as smart as us.

Jay520 said:
Not Canada

Not the question, but....LOL. Yea, alright.

There some sort of Pride at being ignorant with many Americans (US Citizens).  I find it a rather odd and baffling thing.   A number of people are arrogant and proud of the fact they know little of the outside world. 

I remember I was scheduling something in Ohio and it was a Friday and they asked me to come back on Monday, cause their computer was down, or something like that.  I said, "I will be out of State next Week."

The lady looked at my with a outraged concern and said, "Why would anyone ever want to do that?!?"  (she was serious.)

Now it isn't all of them by any means.  But a number do not want their ideas that they have the best of everything be challenged by learning about other places.

LMFAO, yea I've heard that a lot when I went on trips to the USA, typically Georgia has a lot of this attitude.

Making these threads, I aprreciate Europe so much more. I honestly don't min Canada, but I wish we had more then just USA as our neighbours. I wish Russia never sold Alaska, just so we couldn't have more culture.

This is why I really appreciate Montreal, it's at least different, very similar to Europe (But not France... :-/) I just wish we had more countries because there is just so much more diversity. I wish North America was civilized like Europe, but instead because USA is so mega-corporate, were kinda just sitting on the sides, away from everyone.

seriously guys?  you are trying to stereotype something so incredibly diverse as American culture?  My next door neighbors are immigrants from Iran.  The people across the street are from Germany.  Two doors down is a mexican family.  They are all American!

USA is a melting pot of cultures, how you could stereotype it is beyond me, because it only makes you seem ignorant.  Same could be said for pretty much any country or people, stereotypes are a poor way of talking about a culture.

Were not stereotyping, if you clearly look at the very very first post, it specifically states some americans. Yes you have a Mexican, a German, and whatever on your street, but chances are the person operating the teller at WalGreens is completly daft.

In USA you see a lot of arrogent people, who have never left the country, but insist that USA is the best.

You also get a high % of brain dead people, specifically in rural towns in the south (Omg....I have a story for when my car broke down in hicktown New York, and my sister was naming the pimples on the mechanics face...She's not a child, he was just really ugly).

Ahh...anyway, enough US mockery, we could do this for too long.



P.S. I just want to mention something. You know the Internet Top Level Domains (TLDs), such as .uk and .ca? I bet if I went down the street in the USA and asked them what their TLD is, they would say .com LOL Americans are so arrogent, they think every company is American, so the .com domain is American. It's .us, and I'm glad to see a lot of international companies with headquarters in the USA starting to have a country/region directory on the main page when you type www.___.com