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kiwiboy_nz_99
Joined: 05 Jul 2003
Location: ...Enlightenment...
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Actually, you have it backwards. It's Canada that is very similar to America, and no, not terribly distinct in very many ways ...
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How about the sporting culture, the weather, the Quebec issue, the lack of a serious military, public health, and the fact that it's generally a more liberal country? |
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oneiros
Joined: 19 Aug 2003
Location: Villa Straylight
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| Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2004 8:45 am Post subject: |
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| thats probably a valid point, as america is mostly christian and at least the christians I know feel an obligation to protect jews, becasue judaism is the foundation of christianity. of course its also the foundation of islam but most muslims will deny this, Abraham being one of the common threads in all three religions, cant we all just get along! |
Really? Most muslims I talked to in the middle east were quite ready to volunteer this fact. |
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The Bobster
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2004 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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| kiwiboy_nz_99 wrote: |
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Actually, you have it backwards. It's Canada that is very similar to America, and no, not terribly distinct in very many ways ...
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How about the sporting culture, the weather, the Quebec issue, the lack of a serious military, public health, and the fact that it's generally a more liberal country? |
Yeah, sure, but aside from that ... I mean, come on.
(I admit it - just doing a little fishing here ...  )
By the way, kiwiboy, why didn't you object earlier, when the guy said America was similar to Canada? |
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seoulunitarian
Joined: 06 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 8:32 pm Post subject: Re: America is bad.... |
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| Butterfly wrote: |
| At 8-14 both their English and the political awareness are not strong enough to separate government and country. It's good that they are aware to some degree of world politics, because they can only get better right? |
"It can only get better?" Do you have any honest adult Korean interactions? In my experience, the older a Korean gets, the more they blame America for whatever goes wrong. The blaming usually stops at around age 65, though this is because people over this age remember how much America has helped Korea, and that their brothers in the North are scavaging for food in the forests. |
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royjones
Joined: 26 Mar 2004
Location: post count: 512
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| Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 2:28 am Post subject: |
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| The Bobster wrote: |
| kiwiboy_nz_99 wrote: |
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Actually, you have it backwards. It's Canada that is very similar to America, and no, not terribly distinct in very many ways ...
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How about the sporting culture, the weather, the Quebec issue, the lack of a serious military, public health, and the fact that it's generally a more liberal country? |
Yeah, sure, but aside from that ... I mean, come on.
(I admit it - just doing a little fishing here ... )
By the way, kiwiboy, why didn't you object earlier, when the guy said America was similar to Canada? |
lol.. its cause kiwiboy fights for the underdog.. lol.
sorry that you didnt catch any "fish" |
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kiwiboy_nz_99
Joined: 05 Jul 2003
Location: ...Enlightenment...
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| Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 5:09 am Post subject: |
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By the way, kiwiboy, why didn't you object earlier, when the guy said America was similar to Canada?
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I just didn't catch it. |
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Keepongoing
Joined: 13 Feb 2003
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 5:13 pm Post subject: Let's Leave! |
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It would be great to have all US forces withdraw from the Korean Penninsula! Let them resolve their own issues. Even now plans are in the making to reduce the forces by 1/3 by 2005. That will be the first major reduction.
Much of the world dislikes America! I hear more anti-American rhetoric from teachers than from students.
President Bush has not helped in postering America in a good light. Michael Moore works from the inside to draw a very cynical and evil picture of America. Also the world is leary of a country that seems to impose its policies on others.
Back to Korea, they can believe what they want! But when the US leaves it may be time to grow up. |
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