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Yaya

Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Location: Seoul
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Satori

Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Location: Above it all
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Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 2:37 am Post subject: |
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England has ruined everything it's ever touched.
That's no shot at you personally, essexboy, it's just the truth.
My family's roots are in England. When I read the history books, I cringe when I recall it. I don't often offer that to people when they ask about my heritage, because it's embarrassing. That said, I've never been embarrassed to acknowledge being an American.
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I agree. After all, they did invent America ... |
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Yo!Chingo

Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Location: Seoul Korea
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Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 2:38 am Post subject: |
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Pligganease wrote: |
I love being American.
I'm glad I'm not British. Having to live as a has-been empire and realizing that my home nation is powerless without the country that kicked our ass and saved our ass would be hard to take. |
A little extreme isn't it?!? I love Brits and consider them more bretheren than Canadians. |
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shifter2009

Joined: 03 Sep 2006 Location: wisconsin
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Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 3:01 am Post subject: |
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Yo!Chingo wrote: |
Pligganease wrote: |
I love being American.
I'm glad I'm not British. Having to live as a has-been empire and realizing that my home nation is powerless without the country that kicked our ass and saved our ass would be hard to take. |
A little extreme isn't it?!? I love Brits and consider them more bretheren than Canadians. |
Gotta say they are pretty gracious about that whole revolutionary war thing. Maybe it was helping them out with that whole Nazi problem they had going there for a while. |
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laogaiguk

Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Location: somewhere in Korea
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Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 3:03 am Post subject: |
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shifter2009 wrote: |
Yo!Chingo wrote: |
Pligganease wrote: |
I love being American.
I'm glad I'm not British. Having to live as a has-been empire and realizing that my home nation is powerless without the country that kicked our ass and saved our ass would be hard to take. |
A little extreme isn't it?!? I love Brits and consider them more bretheren than Canadians. |
Gotta say they are pretty gracious about that whole revolutionary war thing. Maybe it was helping them out with that whole Nazi problem they had going there for a while. |
To bad that graciousness (?) isn't given to the French for helping America out! |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul
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Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 3:23 am Post subject: |
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I applaud Yo!Chingo and suggest his or her view is the more common view of Mother England by Americans. I'm very familiar with America and Americans and the general consensus is that England (or Britain if one wishes to include the other two) is a great, a truly great, little country.
Yank tossers who have a problem with England are quite simply gross, human pollution, figments of my imagination, Sci-fi creatures genetically manufactured by a mad scientist whose area of research is subhuman excrement. Maybe their bird dumped them in favour of a limey because she went all giggly at his accent. Years of being brutally rejected by American chicks because they're all going gaga at an Englishman's witty put-downs and oozing of taste and discernment....understandable maybe?
There's just no commonsensical reason why an American should have an inferiority/hate complex towards England. The other way around would be understandable, since the US is a bigger, more powerful and in many ways better country than ours has ever been. Most English acknowledge this. I've not come across much anti-Americanism in England (many of us have been and know what a great place it is for English people to visit) yet you get a multitude of malformed maggots who spew hatred of England for God knows what reason. Sad little people....'little' of course referring to status rather than physical appearance. I've all the time in the world for Americans, but Americans who give me sh*t for being English are absolutely disgusting little worms. |
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shifter2009

Joined: 03 Sep 2006 Location: wisconsin
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Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 4:09 am Post subject: |
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laogaiguk wrote: |
shifter2009 wrote: |
Yo!Chingo wrote: |
Pligganease wrote: |
I love being American.
I'm glad I'm not British. Having to live as a has-been empire and realizing that my home nation is powerless without the country that kicked our ass and saved our ass would be hard to take. |
A little extreme isn't it?!? I love Brits and consider them more bretheren than Canadians. |
Gotta say they are pretty gracious about that whole revolutionary war thing. Maybe it was helping them out with that whole Nazi problem they had going there for a while. |
To bad that graciousness (?) isn't given to the French for helping America out! |
We did kinda liberate them from Nazi oppression that one time.....Then there was the time we took over that vietnam war thing for um....and well, their annoying to begin with, it wasn't like they were helping us out because they liked the cut of our jib. They just like messing with the British. I saw\y we stop bashing Americans and Canadians and go after the real enemy! France! |
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whatever

Joined: 11 Jun 2006 Location: Korea: More fun than jail.
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Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 5:33 am Post subject: |
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Satori wrote: |
whatever wrote: |
England has ruined everything it's ever touched.
That's no shot at you personally, essexboy, it's just the truth.
My family's roots are in England. When I read the history books, I cringe when I recall it. I don't often offer that to people when they ask about my heritage, because it's embarrassing. That said, I've never been embarrassed to acknowledge being an American.
Hmm... |
I agree. After all, they did invent America ... |
You're kidding, right?  |
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ChopChaeJoe
Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 5:44 am Post subject: |
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invent America....
That's so retarded. |
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shifter2009

Joined: 03 Sep 2006 Location: wisconsin
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Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:09 am Post subject: |
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ChopChaeJoe wrote: |
invent America....
That's so retarded. |
It is but for some reason it makes me giggle. |
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ChopChaeJoe
Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:24 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, it's funny. Rock on, America doubters.
The republicans won't be in office forever. |
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Newbie

Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:52 am Post subject: |
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whatever wrote: |
My family's roots are in England. When I read the history books, I cringe when I recall it. I don't often offer that to people when they ask about my heritage, because it's embarrassing. That said, I've never been embarrassed to acknowledge being an American. |
You're joking, right? I like America and all, but have you ever read a history book?? British history makes you cringe but American doesn't Dude, that's priceless.
Let's not forget the simple fact that America wouldn't even exist if it wasn't for the British. Okay, perhaps it would exist as some sort of Spanish offshoot, but we've seen how well those countries have all managed. |
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ChopChaeJoe
Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:28 am Post subject: |
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The Spanish....
now there was an empire looking forward to the the 21st cntury.
if not for the limeys and spainards, America would have ended up exactly the same with just the lowlands (that's Netherlands to you and me) rejects alone.
Fact is, America was based on democratic priciples, first in practice since the Greeks.
So suck on it.
(Except the greeks, in which I owe you a beer.) |
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giovanni

Joined: 16 Oct 2006 Location: NO
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Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:19 am Post subject: |
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huntjuliehunt
Joined: 18 Oct 2006
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Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 11:25 am Post subject: |
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The more I travel the world, the happier I am to be an American. I feel no shame. I feel love and pride, knowing how hard my family worked to raise me in my homeland. Knowing that we are free and welcoming in America. The ignorant associate America with McDonalds and fat people and war. The educated might associate it more with the scent of pie baking in the oven, or a Whole Foods or Trader Joes or Wild Oats store (look them up if you don't know them), or classic tv shows like Roseanne and All in the Family and Friends, and great cities like Chicago and New York, and great wide open spaces in Montana and Maine, and Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel and... I don't like the way people turn their heads in disgust when you tell them where you're from, after they just asked you, although that's bound to happen anywhere these days. I don't like the way it's used to brush you off or lash out angst or what I perceive to be jealousy and resentment. I am annoyed that people think it's hip to bash a person over their country and think that they know everything about the war, and are using it to lash out at America and its government. No one knows everything about the war, and we won't for quite some time. What is everyone so angry about? The war? Well, we don't know that Bush lied about his reasons for going into Iraq. We can speculate that he did, but we don't truly know. Let's say that he did lie. Okay, he did, and it's done- people seem to care more about hatred for the past than figuring out what to do in the present. Iraq was ruled by a despicable, unstable leader who had such tight reins on his people that he kept them from killing each other, though took occasions of his own to mass murder. Inevitably, Iraq would have cooked something up and boiled over, so by going into Iraq, we had a headstart. How do I know that all of this terror would have gone on in the future? Because right now the war is not between American and Iraq. It's between Iraq and Iraq. The wicked leader is gone, and civil war is destroying the country. Terrorists are running amok, and Americans are still getting killed trying to keep it all together, along with the deaths of so many innocent Iraqis.
The only shame I feel toward America right now is with its media and television shows and popular music. It's disgusting. Britney Spears and Jessica Simpson and Paris Hilton and Madonna and all the rubbish tv shows make me ill. We used to have quality programming and music. Now we're selling crap on a stick to the rest of the world. |
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