NON-AMERICANS: What do you think about America? | |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1516308 12/13/2012 09:35 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | America, I would love to live there for a few years. You guys have on of the best nature, not many places on the world where you can travel for weeks through beautiful nature. Been in NY a couple of times. People were really nice despite all the horror stories, very helpful actually, never stood longer then 1 minute with a map on the street before someone offered some help. Food, well, it was very nice but just too much lol. One time at breakfast I order some orang juice, they asked me small or large, I said small, still got like half a litre of orange juice! Burgers where the best I ever tasted, not that shit from McD or BK but from a real burger shop. Really like the larger then life mentality. Now what I didn't like where the TSA and the cops. Jesus fucking christ, never have I been treated with so little respect. I have travelled countless times, I know what costums are like but the TSA just treated you like you where either an animal or a violent criminal. At some point in the airport you had to give your bags to TSA officials for some special ray gun machine, I just tried to be kind by just handing the bag to the TSA official and all I got was "Step back!!! Just lay down the bags there or you'll be arrested!!". That stuff really leaves a bitter taste in your mouth. Or our first day in NY we needed to get on a bus but we didn't know where or which so we thought we asked the police guy who was walking there, it very normal thing to do over in the netherlands, we asked and all we got was a cranky look and then he walked away, like we weren't even worth a reply. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 28553184 12/13/2012 10:16 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | On our first day in NY we needed to get on a bus but we didn't know where or which so we thought we asked the police guy who was walking there, it very normal thing to do over in the netherlands, we asked and all we got was a cranky look and then he walked away, like we weren't even worth a reply. Quoting: Phill Sorry you got treated like that. I don't think rude Police Officers are standard elsewhere, and might not be standard in NY. The only way to really know what the USA is like is to visit one portion at a time. The differences are vast. I think the overfeeding thing is prevalent in a lot of locations. Where I live, we love our visitors from all over the planet yet we show that in part by putting massive amounts of food in front of them as if health doesn't matter. Fat doesn't run in my family and it not prevalent at my work, but everywhere else I look most days, fat is normal. Sad. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 29215748 12/13/2012 10:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | America is the bully that beats you up.. doesn't take your lunch money just likes being mean... The American people are a Market place.. not a country. But that market place is failing.. And thanks to Government my family has made millions selling gasoline.. I earned my way in American. My farther gave each of his kids a gas station to run. I busted my ass off and in 2 years I owned 6 gas stations through my hard work.. now i have as much money as my farther and have gotten married for the 3rd time b/c my last wife couldn't have kids so i beheaded her. and my first wife died tragically in a camel incident i don't like to talk about. so in a nut shell. American is great place for other's to make money in... like that Gangmen stupid song my Psy.. but america also has a temper tantrum problem.. young country still.. going through it's terrible two's |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 28604765 12/13/2012 10:57 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I think too much brainwashed national pride has allowed the erosion of your liberty, and a huge chunk of your population is held back from progressing by religious fear. Quoting: ming For a lot of people I know, myself included, hearing "USA USA USA!" is the same as hearing "Allah ahkbar Allah ahkbar!". I like this description; I, too, cringe when I hear "USA USA USA!" at anything other than the Olympics. Though, I think perhaps the zealotry displayed by some of the White, older generation comes from watching immigration. Many weren't born, or were too young, to remember the wave of immigration in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Instead of being pissed at Mexicans/Latino's-in-general, they would have been pissed at the Germans and the Irish. From 1940-1960, everything was so 'White and Right'. What used to be a war of cultures (Irish-English-German-French-Born Americans), shifted to a war of Race. I think my generation (Millennial), it will be a war of Religion. Christianity here is so fractured, though I can't say anything of what it's like in Europe as y'all are portrayed as cheese-eating Atheists (Europeans in general) here in the south. LOL! I do love cheese, and I don't believe in any deity with a "personality", so for myself I suppose thats a somewhat accurate description. Americans seem to be very territorial creatures. I think perhaps the paranoia comes from having such a large landmass. You could fit a couple of European countries in Texas. We're also young, spoiled, and our blights have lasted a few years at the most. |
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