Hello there! I am from America and am interested to hear about your opinions on my country.
you know, the falcon is a magnificent creature. It can spot rodents from way up high with its great, sharp eyes. These eyes take up a lot of space in the falcons head.
So there's America for you: Great vision, small brain.
Post-death is frustrating. Especially when it was a very lengthy and detailed post.
Summary:
political comments: http://4-ch.net/politics/kareha.pl/1120282154/l50
("why do so many people hate Americans?")
However:
America != USA.
Ameirca = South America + North America. two whole continents.
"The Americas" is an acceptable alternative name for the two continents, America is not an acceptable alternate name for USA. If you are so keen on abbreviating United States of America, say U S A (approximately 'yuessáye').
>>1 is not helping the general stereotype of too many USA citizens being ignorant/egocentric asshats who think others do not count. I have many intelligent friends in USA, stop making them look bad.
American climate, geography, wildlife, history, culture, cuisine = too bleeping diverse to generalize, but very interesting, obviously.
USA climate, geography, wildlife, history, culture, cusinie = diverse and interesting, though mega-corporations want to turn the culture, cuisine, etc into a one size fits all. The terribly loud miniority of fundies = bad (duh); being crusade obsessed morons. FDA = crony for the mega-corporations. Trend in the human population: kids getting babysat by corporations via TV, school cafeteria "sponsorships" etc thanks to the consumerist culture touted by the companies. It's leading to too many of them suffering from hollow egos, feeling that they need to buy as much as possible to -> too busy working too much due to needing too much cash -> their kids getting babysat by TV/Internets and being neglected -> need to buy to feel more fulfilled etc (it is delicious loop, you must eat it). It feels paradoxal that when such a huge chunk of the population is religious, far too many nevertheless feel terribly hollow. Oh, also, the fact that too many of those religious people cannot comprehend that it doesn't take a god to be moral: that it's just plain common sense, is a telling sign of their viciousness, ignorance and idiocy. It's not a good indicator when a significant number of religious people think that the fear of god/not getting into heaven is the sole reason to behave well.
http://www.google.se/search?q=Atheists+least+trusted
http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2006/03/24/67686
Sorry for the fundie-rant, I have nothing against religious people, but I do have a lot against idiots, regardless of whether they're religious or not.
>>3 The Japanese would disagree, as would anyone who isn't a dork obsessed with political correctness.
"Canadian Provinces of America" has a nice sound to it.
>>4
It has nothing to do with being politically correct.
I don't think anyone outside the U.S. really minds if we call our country America. You don't see Canada trying call themselves Canada of America, or Chile trying to call themselves Chile of America. It's simply easier to say IN AMERICA
yep, generally when people say America, they mean the US.
"American flag"
America = USA (correct)
United States of AMERICA
God Bless AMERICA
AMERICA the Beautiful
AMERICAn people
>>10-11
if I call anything non-geographical from south or north america (of the non usaian kind) for american, you'd get all huffy and claim i'm wrong. when in fact i would not be, as i'd be referring to it in relation to the continent. people frequently speak of african things without referring more closely to the exact region, why would it be more wrong for me to refer to any country in the americas as american, than any african place african? does it mean that africa is an accepted way to refer to exclusively south africa? that's the way you people use america.
yes, i made a lot of assumptions regarding your responses, based on opinions too many other usa citizens have.
guess why many others feel too many 'americans' have overinflated egos.
lol amerikkka
>>15
I wouldn't go that far.
Though with as much power as USA has, it's worrisome that there are many people there that want to turn it into a jihad-ing Jesusland. I hope the rest of the population can keep them at bay.
The rest of us have already started. The people voted to shift the congress from Republic to Democrat in the '06 mid-term elections. Of course, the Democrats come with their own set of disturbing issues, but they are not in bed with the crazy fundamentalist Christians. I think this trend will continue in the '08 presidential election. I would be surprised, depressed, and possibly violently angry if we got another super-religious pandering inept feckless corrupt president. It won't happen though, because even the densest back-country hick is starting to figure out he's been cheated and lied to.
> I think this trend will continue in the '08 presidential election. I would be surprised, depressed, and possibly violently angry if we got another super-religious pandering inept feckless corrupt president.
unfortunately for you, it looks like the democrats are doing their best to make sure that happens.
Maybe we should start calling ourselved United Statians
America
Home of the brave,
Home of the free.
>>17 It doesn't matter how corrupt the president is, what matters is how corrupt congress is.
You are right, of course. However we haven't had a genuine leader in the White House in my generation, and trying to clean up the congress is totally unpossible. So I hope for my mediocre dream of a president who doesn't metaphorically rape me in the ass to come true, since thinking about how Barbara Boxer "represents" me makes me slit down, not across.
>>25
You fail at life. This is not an image board.
Sage is not an insult. Read 4-ch's wiki about the usage of sage.
I'm a resident of the US of A, and I disagree with the general name of 'America' applying only to us. Are there any people here who are actually Japanese who want to say what they THINK OF THE US? Wasn't that this threads topic?
>>27 Not Japanese specifically but non-Americans (British, Mexican, Canadian, Brazilian, Hawaiian, etc.)
Americans must like themselves if they want others to like them.
America was a one-hit wonder back in the 1970's.
1/the biggest country in the world
2/a country of hypocrites
3/selfish and childish
I'm an Amerifag.
Yes, I'll agree, the U.S has its fair share of problems. In fact, if I had the chance, I'd move somewhere else. (Except for the fact that people would still call me an Amerifag.) However, the one thing I get sick of are these "[INSERT COUNTRY HERE] SUX CAUSE THEY'RE [INSERT STEREOTYPE HERE]!!" threads where everyone bashes on this country and that going only by sterotypes.
How many U.S-hating posters have actually been to the U.S? Personally, I've never been to another country and I never say "OLOLOL!!1 [INSERT COUNTRY] SUXX0RZ!!1one!1" I've never even met anyone who was a current citizen of another country, so I can't judge anybody on any matter.
The point is, why can't we all just get along as citizens of Earth? In a hundred years, when we terraform Mars, will we be having the same kinds of discussions? Seriously, guys.
> In a hundred years,
i think you're being unrealistically optimistic if you think we won't have nuked ourselves into oblivion by then.
>>34
Ok, this is assuming we can avoid that kind of situation.
I think it is a piece of land. Also, some people live on it.
That's just what I think, though.
>I've never even met anyone who was a current citizen of another
country
Where do you live? Somewhere down in Arkansas or up in North Dakota?
>when one explicitly states his intention to "sage" a thread then it becomes an insul..
That was my point exactly. Going "sage!" in here is as stupid as going "Man you're gay" at a Pride festival.
It doesn't work, because the words work too differently here vs an image board, which is clearly where >>25 came from.
Nothing wrong with that, I wasted over a year of my life at 4chan's /b/. But that doesn't mean I'm going to be an ignorant nimrod.
To quote the stereotype line, >>25 needs to "lurk moar".
Remember, >>30, it's down the lane, not across the street... Nah. No heroing needed. >>25's usage inside of his post (as opposed to the actual saging) is not acceptable, however, as it shows too great ignorance of how this site works.
>>33
I've been to USA. It digusted me. Not the country's fault, though. It was the retarded morons who kept using the bible as an excuse to spew hate and ignorance that distgusted me. Don't move out of USA. Please contribute to saving your contry from those disease-bearing human cockroaches. Forget the nukes, they'll turn your country into a 3rd world country, then go taliban on us all, and THEN nuke the world, believing that the old "duck and cover" video tapes they've passed on to future generations taught them everything they need to know about how to survive that.