At least I can claim that I was born and raised in Ohio.  I do appreciate being an American sometimes....  Like when I went to Dominican Republic for a week for one of my sister's wedding (been to a decent amount of other poor nations).  Reminds you that there is always some place worse.  Actually, I feel bad about my dislikes considering so many people are living in far worse situations.  However, Canada always makes me jealous...

Sorry but you guys are too big for us to take now, you're like those Cuckoo chicks that grow too big for their nests and roll all the other eggs out of it.

Well...we're talking the past few years :P

Tell us how to live? I don't think that the UK government is that bad. People don't like authority but if we didnt have it then there would be chaos. Governments are as evil as you try to make out. Government are no stronger than they used to be. In fact governments are probably a lot less corrupt than they used to be 'rotten boroughs sytems' of old for example. And lets not forget we select, from a varied range of parties, who gets into power.

Haven't the English assisted us or been our enemy in most wars? Look at the wars we have fought.

French-Indian War(Also know as war of Austrian Succession in Europe right?)-Does this count? We were still just a colony.

American Revolution-English Enemy

War of 1812- English Enemy

Civil War- No involvement I don't think. Might have helped Union in some way? I know they assisted through expansive cotton sales.

Spanish American War- Beats me

Mexican American War- I don't think so.

WWX- English friends

WW2- English friends

Korean War-English friends?

Vietnam-English friends?

Afghanistan-English friends! I remember because the prince helped. Wasn't he deployed in Kandahar? Pretty crazy if he was.

Iraq- British friends?

I don't know much about English history but don't they have the Boer War, 100 years war, Napoleonic wars, war of spanish succession, and more(which is understandable considering...well they are much older). War is not an exclusive to American, the entire world goes to war, and quite frequently at that.

I love this country. But the question is have you ever lived in England? If not, why dont you try to get a work visa and go there for a year or so. Ive lived in a few different places and traveled a lot. But once you travel you find out how similar the world is. You will find things that you never knew you loved about where you came from as well. And you will find things you love about the places you travel to.

If you haven't lived outside of Texas, also try living in some other parts of the states. Youll be surprised how different things are. I have a coworker who came from Austin last year and she fell in love with San Francisco, even though she is pretty Conservative.

I like the way you think.  Rather than attempting to cause some sort of controversy, or say something along the lines of "My country is better than your country" or "This place sucks, this other place is awesome", you're offering an open minded and very mature outlook on things.  Kudos, good sir.

Interesting considering Austin is usually more liberal than the rest of the state of Texas.  I was born and raised for 18 years near Columbus, Ohio so I have no affinity towards Texas.  I merely followed some of my family down here and went to college at Texas Tech (my parents moved to Austin in 2000).  You are right being away from the states (and especially in a poorer country) shows you how much you take for granted.  My main point of this thread was that USA isn't perfect and there are a lot of things that need to be done.  However, I am afraid to admit that USA has shit, poor leadership.  Look at the so called politicians (I mean pawns of corporations).  There are very few if any politicians in USA that has enough balls to take on the problems and if there is one (Gary Johnson or Ron Paul they are quickly swept to the side).  We are leaderless.  We are pretty much a chicken running around with its' head cut off.  There are plenty of things right in USA and just as many things wrong.  Pretty obvious what I am saying considering most people agree that the nation is headed in the wrong direction, yet we do nothing to change course.   I want to change course but everyone just keeps voting for democrats and republicans.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=128111&page=1

Is what I think we need to do before it is too late.  Otherwise we will be fascist and at this point I wouldn't mind being fascist over this so called democracy.

Considering the World Conquest mentality of the UK when it was the most powerful nation on earth, I'm going to have to say the USA has been a lot more polite to the world during its global dominance. 

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