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| vivster said: So the excuse of "It's our own country , we can do with it whatever we like" doesn't fly. It's this attitude of parading every success you have around and then trying to hide or talk down every negative thing that is happening as if nobody should care. So we should care when the US is awesome but we shouldn't care if it's not? That's just an asshole thing to do and being an asshole isn't nice. |
It is not an excuse meant to justify anything, because there isn't anything to justify, merely just an observation. The overwhelming majority of Americans rarely think about people from other countries, let alone how it might affect them, and the "American first" mentality is very prominent. But that is true for any economic or political union. Europe takes a "European union first" stance on economic matters. China takes a "China first stance". Britain has recently taken a "Britain first" stance. So on and so forth. Americans are only exceptional in that we are isolated from most of the world and have been for centuries, so our "America first" stance is much more typical an ingrained. In fact, isolationism is the natural mode of American society.
Why does it even matter if the U.S is awesome or not? Because it is a super-power? Because it is some supposed "leader of the free world" or whatever silly platitude thrown out there? What is with the obssession with rankings and comparisons of vastly different political, cultural, and social entities?
I can also assure you that it isn't only Americans who have some weird superiority complex, anyway. Having attended a very international university and having met people from all over the world you'll find it from people of every country.
