| Poliwrathlord said: What do you think about America? I love America. It is my homeland and I am glad to live here. That being said I do hate some things about my homeland. I do not like the people who live in my country. Too many religious nutjobs (I'm religious just so you know) and also there are a lot of ignorant morons on both sides of the political spectrum, both liberal and conservative. I am embarrased about my country being the home to many idiots such as George W. Bush, most people on Fox News, and Anita Sarkeesian (is she 'Murican IDK). But I am also glad that I share the same homeland with great poeple like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, MLK Jr., Mark Twain, and Harriet Tubman. I am annoyed with America's foreign policies. I wish we were more isolationist like we were in the 1930's and kept our noses out of the rest of the world's problems. I whole heartedly wish we would close our borders and never interact with the rest of the world again, but I know that being completely isolationist would probably never be possible in the U.S. That is just my opinion, what is yours? Do you love America or do you chant death to America (along with your fellow Jihadists)! |
The USA ( I don't like to use the term america since there are other nations on the continent, too) are at it's core, a fine nation. Too bad that core got enveloped over the years with so many bad things you can barely see it.
You already pointed out some of the most poignant flaws in the USA, which I bolded. As an outsider who knows a few americans, I would add some more things, which are an totally outdated political voting system (primaries, winner takes all, PACs, minimum age for the president...), "racial" questions and profiling (we're all homo sapiens sapiens no matter the skin tone), social security and healtcare (Obamacare is a step in the right direction, but so watered down it barely matters), prison system (ex-prisoners have barely any rights, pushing them back into crime instead of using the sentence to rehabilitate them and make them useful for the society once more, death penalty), high inequality (the american dream is but a dream anymore) and poor basic education (even worse, these tend to be quite vocal, too).
Now, there are good things too, like much innovations in the different fields of technology and research, a generally very friendly population; supportive and helpful to their friends and neighbours, good universities to balance out the poor basic eduction and it's fundamental sense of freedom
That said, I think Winston Churchill summed it up almost perfectly: "You can always count on the United Stated to do the right thing - after they have tried everything else".
