Amber: This thread was split from another thread which had gone off-topic.
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Welcome to the club. |
yeah seriously. as though being american is a handicap. it's not. you ppl are narrow minded. :rolleyes:
Ooh ohh. there IS a song. Barbie girl. yeah that's the one. revoLUTIONIZED my life. |
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Yeah, I'll shut up now :p |
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Who IS? :p |
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oh how you guys contradict. so what do you refer to when you say "american"? |
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Anyone who was born & grew up there :p Quote:
See above ;) |
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I never made any definitions myself. I guess the most true Americans today would be descendants of people that came directly from the British Isles. They're quickly becoming a minority though. |
Lux, :D
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well i grew up from age 5 in america. does that make me american? i am certainly not chinese in culture.
EDIT: freddie - you don't have to make up the definitions yourself, it's just that you're agreeing to ones that contradict each other. you say ppl who are american are..well, american. and then you say who really IS american. yeah. contradicting. |
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Naah. That's just you not reading what I REALLY wrote. :p |
how can you decide what i read and didn't read? it's my interpretation. MINE. you have no control whatsoever over it, regardless of what you think. we've been over this, many times. enough with it.
Amber: Please post in normal size and color. then why have options? just so we can post in exclamation of something the mods think is a positive response? please. |
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Ultimately, it doesn't really matter which origin US citizens are from because even recent immigrants seem to absorb the American 'culture' pretty fast and exhibit the typical American traits: gun obsession, ultra patriotism, religious extremism, ultra capitalism, and will to rule the world and bomb everyone who disagrees. |
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Amber: :done: :done: :done: |
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Let's take gun obsession for example, the US is the only modern country where you can find gun stores in every town and city, there are even gun departments in supermarkets, and any dumbass can legally buy an automatic weapon in his neighborhood store. This is just insane. Regular citizens should not be allowed to own firearms, and this crazy situation only exist in the US where people are obsessed with guns. This is what Rachel meant by 'over the top', the US always go too far in everything. Allowing guns for hunting would be understandable (even though i am opposed to hunting), but when you walk in an American gun store, it's obvious that most guns are designed to kill humans, not game, do hunters (or regular citizens for that matter) really need shotguns or assault rifles? No. Only the police should be allowed to have firearms, that's how it works in Europe and we're doing fine with a thousand times less homicides than in the US. And you can apply that 'over the top' thing to every domain, even something as banal as cars for examples, everybody need cars in modern countries, but American cars are different from any others, they are gigantic. Do Americans really need oversized SUVs that burn 10 more times petrol (and pollute) than an average European or Japanese car? Nope, it's over the top. |
Yeah well this thread is too "over the top" for me. I can't believe it became such an issue. I'm not here to insult anyone's country or cultural background, but it's a shame that i'm kinda alone on that.
From a great African-American author, Zora Neale Hurston, you've "gotta go there to know there." Don't tell me what my country is or isn't when you're not even in it. I'm out. :none: |
I agree with Cirrus. I don't even like the US myself (for the mere reasons that my country provides them with cheap oil, sold them half it's own territory two centuries ago, and has had to assimilate their culture in order to actually go anywhere) but unlike some people with power in these forums, I'd rather not judge them without experiencing them myself.
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i'm sorry, but we're not all from west virginia.... |
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