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What Developed Country do you Envy?

Australia 10 18.87%
 
Canada 5 9.43%
 
Denmark 0 0%
 
Germany 6 11.32%
 
Japan 10 18.87%
 
Norway 3 5.66%
 
Sweden 4 7.55%
 
United Kingdom 3 5.66%
 
USA 1 1.89%
 
See Results 11 20.75%
 
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DanneSandin on 14 February 2013
AlphaCielago said:
DanneSandin said:

No, Denmark isn't below sea levels - Holland is - but it's flat as hell though ^^

No, we don't vote on every law that's being passed - that's Switzerland. We do vote on big events though. Like when we switch from driving on the left side to the right. We actually voted AGAINST changing on what side to drive on, but the government just said "screw you" ^^ we also voted about joining the EU and NOT to join the EMU (the euro) - which the government listened to. So we do vote on the "big" things :p But we got like 7 different political parties which all stand for different things, so when we vote for them we kinda know what we're getting the next 4 years.


To be fair, in Sweden we have not voted on anything big except for the driving thing, EU, Alcohol, Euro, Nuclear crap and Old people stuff.

Yeah, but that's because we don't HAVE TO vote on more things ^^ we have it soooo good we don't need to improve things :p



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steelabhold on 14 February 2013

wrong thread



phinch1 on 14 February 2013
kain_kusanagi said:
phinch1 said:
kain_kusanagi said:
phinch1 said:
kain_kusanagi said:
fordy said:
kain_kusanagi said:

The Great Melting Pot of America is one of my favorite things about. So many people from so many other cultures coming together to make a new culture.


Huh? You make it sound like no other country embraces multiculturalism.


America has one of if not the richest history of immigration. Sure lots of nations embrace their multiculturalism, but if you could give an example of even one country with a more diverse population I'd tip my hat to you.

 


England, it's pretty much like America in terms of muticultiralism except its been happening for thousands of more years......lol

 

+ I can go to a shooting range, go to burger king and play halo 4 and drink mountain dew if i really wanted too

You and I both know that if you wanted to shoot a gun you would have to do a hell of a lot more than I would. For me it's as simple as unlocking my gun safe, driving to an outdoor area and setting up some targets. If you really wanted to shoot a gun, you will need to jump through a lot of hoops and it won't be your gun, unless you have an extremely restricted license and are a member of sanctioned club.

As for my examples of Burger King, Halo 4, etc. Those are just some examples of great stuff born in the USA that I enjoy.

I just listed a bunch of stuff that is as American as Hotdogs and Baseball. Sure you can buy a hotdog in Germany and watch baseball in Japan, but you know what I mean.

 


As american as baseball? or as English as rounders? haha, i have hotdogs in my fridge now......but still you havnt tipped your hat to me ;)

Romans. In 250AD

Rome sent a contingent of black legionnaires, drawn from the African part of the empire, to stand guard on Hadrian’s Wall.Romans finally quit in the fifth century, the way was clear for the-Germanic tribes that would slowly become the English.

Four hundred years after the Jutes, Angles and Saxons colonised modern-day southern England, the Vikings arrived, bringing a distinctive new influence to the cultural pot.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/uk/2002/race/short_history_of_immigration.stm

ill post the link theres too much to write

The small city state home to the Vatican is all that's left of the Roman Empire. My hat remains in its previous angle.

As for baseball and hotdogs. You still don't get what I was talking about or you are intentionally being obtuse. Either way I'm not going to explain it again.

Lol i dont care about what you can or cant do in America

(Highlighted in your origional text) You just can't keep to your word can you? Ive found you a country with a more diverse population..........and you just won't tip your hat will you??? TIP IT!!!!



kain_kusanagi on 14 February 2013
phinch1 said:
kain_kusanagi said:
phinch1 said:
kain_kusanagi said:
phinch1 said:
kain_kusanagi said:
fordy said:
kain_kusanagi said:

The Great Melting Pot of America is one of my favorite things about. So many people from so many other cultures coming together to make a new culture.


Huh? You make it sound like no other country embraces multiculturalism.

 


America has one of if not the richest history of immigration. Sure lots of nations embrace their multiculturalism, but if you could give an example of even one country with a more diverse population I'd tip my hat to you.

 


England, it's pretty much like America in terms of muticultiralism except its been happening for thousands of more years......lol

 

+ I can go to a shooting range, go to burger king and play halo 4 and drink mountain dew if i really wanted too

 

You and I both know that if you wanted to shoot a gun you would have to do a hell of a lot more than I would. For me it's as simple as unlocking my gun safe, driving to an outdoor area and setting up some targets. If you really wanted to shoot a gun, you will need to jump through a lot of hoops and it won't be your gun, unless you have an extremely restricted license and are a member of sanctioned club.

As for my examples of Burger King, Halo 4, etc. Those are just some examples of great stuff born in the USA that I enjoy.

I just listed a bunch of stuff that is as American as Hotdogs and Baseball. Sure you can buy a hotdog in Germany and watch baseball in Japan, but you know what I mean.

 


As american as baseball? or as English as rounders? haha, i have hotdogs in my fridge now......but still you havnt tipped your hat to me ;)

Romans. In 250AD

Rome sent a contingent of black legionnaires, drawn from the African part of the empire, to stand guard on Hadrian’s Wall.Romans finally quit in the fifth century, the way was clear for the-Germanic tribes that would slowly become the English.

Four hundred years after the Jutes, Angles and Saxons colonised modern-day southern England, the Vikings arrived, bringing a distinctive new influence to the cultural pot.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/uk/2002/race/short_history_of_immigration.stm

ill post the link theres too much to write

The small city state home to the Vatican is all that's left of the Roman Empire. My hat remains in its previous angle.

As for baseball and hotdogs. You still don't get what I was talking about or you are intentionally being obtuse. Either way I'm not going to explain it again.

Lol i dont care about what you can or cant do in America

(Highlighted in your origional text) You just can't keep to your word can you? Ive found you a country with a more diverse population..........and you just won't tip your hat will you??? TIP IT!!!!

 

What's to tip? Nobody is arguing that Europe isn't diverse. Is it more so than the USA? I don't see how Rome proves it. The USA is full of people sent here by their families to make it. Every country and culture in the world has people in the USA who have become full citizens. I'm sure a lot of them stopped in the UK on their way here. Other nations may embrace their multiculturalism, but the USA is THE earth's melting pot.

Oh and I'm sure you don't care what's great about America. I'm sure you don't care at all. It's plainly obvious you don't care for anything to do with the USA.



Michael-5 on 14 February 2013
steelabhold said:
Michael-5 said:

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


Firstly: I think the proper term would be ignorant. Most people wouldn't think a company is American because of arrogance. (assuming you meant to type arrogant.)

Secondly: Stereotyping 300 million people is... ignorant. Or ill-founded prejudice.

Thirdly: Reported. I find you're attitude versus America... distasteful.

 

OT:  I would want to live in the UK. I envy there gun laws/attutide.

You're right, ignorant would have been the proper term, for that example, but in the example ZappyKins gave, that would be an example of Arrogence (Why would you want to leave the state)?

We're not sterotyping 300 million Americans, we clearly said some several times. Some usually refers to less then hald, so we're sterotyping <165 million Americans. I don't know what fractions of Americans would follow this stereotype, but from my experiences in Southern/Central USA, most people are like this, especially in rural towns. Rednecks are real, they aren't a stereotype, or an overexageration of flaws in specific individuals.

My attitude about Americans is distasteful, I wish I lived in Europe, LOL. I find USA Scary and Gross, except for Miami, which I love.



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the2real4mafol on 14 February 2013

I would probably pick Australia now, just for the awesome accent and weather



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kain_kusanagi on 14 February 2013
the2real4mafol said:
I would probably pick Australia now, just for the awesome accent and weather


Good choice.



fordy on 14 February 2013
Miguel_Zorro said:
fordy said:
Miguel_Zorro said:
fordy said:
Miguel_Zorro said:
fordy said:
Miguel_Zorro said:
fordy said:
kain_kusanagi said:

The Great Melting Pot of America is one of my favorite things about. So many people from so many other cultures coming together to make a new culture.


Huh? You make it sound like no other country embraces multiculturalism.

I'm not sure how anyone could possibly interpret what he said the way you interpreted it.

You're right. Melting pot theory is a LOT more intolerable towards different cultures when compared to multiculturalism.

I disagree.  It's impossible to have multiculturalism without some degree of melting together taking place. 

It's pre-1970 attitudes like that that encourages intolerance for cultural difference from both sides. As such, you'll notice that the "melting pot" theory has been scrapped in favour of "salad bowl". I encourage you to research the benfits of the latter over the former, and see the many examples where it has been a tremendous success. (Toronto, Melbourne, etc.) 

I encourage you to learn about Toronto before citing it as a reason to imply that somebody is intolerant or say they have a pre-1970 attitude.  Have you ever been there?

Think about the term "melting pot" and what it implies. Your attitude would have people segregated into a bunch of little ethnic enclaves, never interacting with other ethnicities.  That's not the way it works, at least in a city like Toronto. 


Once again, do some research before making wild assumptions about multiculturalism. Multiculturalism does NOT require segregation, and on top of that, interaction between cultures does NOT imply an erosion of cultures. That's where your fallacy lies.

Your definition of multicultralism is just newspeak for melting pot.  There's nothing wrong with being a melting pot.  You're caught on the euphemism treadmill.

You've also made assumptions about me that are wildly incorrect, ignorant, and outright insulting.  I will not be discussing this with you any further.


If you wish to remain ignorant to the facts, then I suggest that you do not argue sides. There is a clear definition of multiculturalism and a clear definition of melting pot, and they are NOT the same. On top of this, America does not have any multicultural policy at the federal level, so I seriously don't see how you can think that the melting pot is something to boast about.

For starters, melting pot is one of the main sources of American ignorance towards other countries. Things like "I don't NEED to know about other countries because we have them here", like eating the American bastardised version of pizza or chinese food makes them completely in tune with respective cutures...Secondly, melting pot encourages the formation of an individual culture from a mix of other cultures, effectively destroying those cultures. Multiculturalism is the opposite; it brings different cultures together while encouragining said cultures to stick to their cultural roots.



Michael-5 on 14 February 2013
the2real4mafol said:
I would probably pick Australia now, just for the awesome accent and weather

Well now you can.

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Player1x3 on 15 February 2013
Michael-5 said:
KHlover said:
Michael-5 said:
KHlover said:
Michael-5 said:

Yea so then, anything North of Germany, including Germany is an ideal place for me then. I'd have to go there and decide first hand if I were to move, I know too little about Scandinavian and Germany society to be able to make a decision like that now, and I'd have to learn a new language, so that plays a card too (German sounds scary LOL).

Trust me, it only sounds scary on the internet. For example, "Schmetterling" actually is a nice word - IF YOU DONT SCREAM IT LIKE A RETARD!!!!!

I'd have to go there and see it. From what I hear RamStein songs are about making Toys in a factory and watching the snow fall and peacefull things and......it's hard rock.

Regardless, I'd rather learn German then live in Italy, or even move to the USA LOL

Haha, as a german it is really amusing to hear that Rammstein is actually used to measure how hard the german language sounds :D

Here is a more relaxing song for you :D

Yea, see this is why I'd have to go to Germany, it sounds a lot better in that song. I think because I'm Ukrainian, and understand most serbian languages (especially Polish, which gets a lot of german influences), it wouldn't be too hard to learn German.


???

 

There's only one serbian language lol...