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arsenicazure said:
To suggest that the rest of the world should be thankful for american over-consumerism is ridiculous. I guess we should thank them for climate change, high oil prices, the current recession and wars in the middle east too then.

i never said that we should be thankful for that. over consumerism is what got us all in these situations in the first place and is a horribly unhealthy habit. but the world's economy has become so integrated with one another that many countries depend on other nations to buy their goods to support themselves.