Americans. Arrogant Kunts....[as told by Americans]

**Rural Surin** · 02-04-2012, 07:16 PM

This is much too easy.

Carry on...

**sabang** · 02-04-2012, 08:07 PM

America is such a big country, such a 'big thing' on the world stage- and (of course) domestically, that there is an assumed complacency about being American that I don't really think is arrogance as such. Most Americans don't travel, you might say the states is their universe. Not a small universe either.

It can come across in surprising ways. I was travelling the states with a good American friend, and we stayed with old friends of hers in Corvallis, Oregon for a few days. Their teenaged daughter said I had a 'funny accent'. Well, I said- yes, I suppose I do. To you. But then again, to me you have the 'funny accent'. Her and her mother looked utterly gobsmacked, puzzled beyond belief.

In contrast, most non-Americans inevitably grow up a fair bit more international. We tend to be closer to borders and to travel more, but also culturally our home country doesn't totally fill our outlook & mindset-basically, it isn't that 'big'. Australia is certainly big- about the size of the continental US, but I read in todays Sydney Morning Herald that out of a population of some 25 million, 7.8 million Aussie's travelled overseas last year. That is bound to cause certain differences in our outlook and 'inetrnationalism' than a typical stay at home Amerkin. Similarly In Europe they fly off to Majorca or wherever at the drop of a hat, and in that darn place you drive for a few minutes on the motorway you're in the next country anyway.

**Ceburat1** · 02-04-2012, 08:47 PM

Like it or not, in spite of all of America's short-comings she is still the best by a long shot - Just get use to it. As for me, I am proud to be an American.

**Rural Surin** · 02-04-2012, 08:55 PM

Originally Posted by Ceburat1

Like it or not, in spite of all of America's short-comings she is still the best by a long shot - Just get use to it. As for me, I am proud to be an American.

Sounds as if it's a sad affliction.

**sabang** · 02-04-2012, 08:58 PM

Originally Posted by Ceburat1

I am proud to be an American.

Nothing wrong with that- but as an American living in Thailand you hardly need to be reminded that everyone and everything is not either amerkin or wannabe amerkin.

**Rural Surin** · 02-04-2012, 09:20 PM

Originally Posted by sabang

Originally Posted by Ceburat1

I am proud to be an American.

Nothing wrong with that- but as an American living in Thailand you hardly need to be reminded that everyone and everything is not either amerkin or wannabe amerkin.

Or in his case, an extremist evangelical American-Christian....

Don't know which is worst:
The Rambo romantic militaristic culturally-centred clone
The Nationalist-Christian freak

Though, some can easily see these goons as one and the same.

**Humbert** · 02-04-2012, 09:26 PM

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Love these 'Merkin-bashing threads that pop up every so often.

I hope its theraputic. Getting too tightly wound up with their obsessive fixations on America is probably doing them some real serious damage.

**Loy Toy** · 02-04-2012, 09:35 PM

I'm presently here in Colorado on a business trip and I have to say the people in this area are absolutely wonderful.

When I walk into the breakfast gallery other hotel guests greet you, the attitude right across the board has been brilliant whether you are buying a dinner or asking for directions and I am suitably impressed.

I know I have only been here for a short time but on face value the Colorado people are right up there with the best people I have met.

**chitown** · 02-04-2012, 09:46 PM

What did you think of Denver International Airport?

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

I'm presently here in Colorado on a business trip and I have to say the people in this area are absolutely wonderful.

When I walk into the breakfast gallery other hotel guests greet you, the attitude right across the board has been brilliant whether you are buying a dinner or asking for directions and I am suitably impressed.

I know I have only been here for a short time but on face value the Colorado people are right up there with the best people I have met.

**Carrabow** · 02-04-2012, 10:02 PM

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

Originally Posted by Ceburat1

Like it or not, in spite of all of America's short-comings she is still the best by a long shot - Just get use to it. As for me, I am proud to be an American.

Sounds as if it's a sad affliction.

What is wrong with being proud of who you are? I don't see it as an affliction.

**buriramboy** · 02-04-2012, 10:19 PM

Originally Posted by Carrabow

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

Originally Posted by Ceburat1

Like it or not, in spite of all of America's short-comings she is still the best by a long shot - Just get use to it. As for me, I am proud to be an American.

Sounds as if it's a sad affliction.

What is wrong with being proud of who you are? I don't see it as an affliction.

Just depends if you are a religeous nutjob or not i guess.

**Rural Surin** · 02-04-2012, 11:21 PM

Originally Posted by buriramboy

Originally Posted by Carrabow

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

Originally Posted by Ceburat1

Like it or not, in spite of all of America's short-comings she is still the best by a long shot - Just get use to it. As for me, I am proud to be an American.

Sounds as if it's a sad affliction.

What is wrong with being proud of who you are? I don't see it as an affliction.

Just depends if you are a religeous nutjob or not i guess.

...or a militaristic national loony.

**ENT** · 02-04-2012, 11:35 PM

American people living solely in America have been isolated and insulated from the rest of the world, only being aware of it through the media.
As a result, there is a large mass of the population who will naturally and instinctively rise up defensively if America is challenged in any way.
This section of the American population has never left their homeland, nor seen war and its horrors touch their shores, so are often the quickest to respond to the battle cry, and promptly send their sons off overseas to patriotic glory, war and death in the name of liberty.

After the survivors have returned and been honoured, and the dead buried and mourned, some of their families undergo a kind of culture shock, where they become aware of another world out there that's not nice and cosy with Mom and apple pie, and ice cream.
It's seen as a world of angry coloured people ready to beat up on Americans wherever they go. They can't understand it.

Some of those foreigners make it into the US and settle there, proving to middle Americans that America must be the best option for all.
This is all re-enforced by the accounts of the surviving soldiers and the media, which constantly works to create the version of the American dream that best suits Washington and the industrial sector.
Such a situation serves the overlords well.

When the periodic war phase subsides, an internal conflict arises to keep the populace under control. Another enemy, social disruption is invested in and invented, effectively dividing the populace into this side and that, usually on either a rich/poor. black/white. Indian/colonialist. All of these issues are media driven. remember those cowby v, Indian movies, and USA v. Nazis of Hollywood?

All the conflicts that America suffers are self generated, the spectre of bogey-man is raised, given a facelift and a new hat and is paraded around to stir the people up who all love a parade and so, bonded together they dance to the beat of the voodoo drum of American political venture.
A new star of destiny is born, the old one fades away as the latest economic crisis to hit the White House screams for attention and the POTUS rubber stamps yet another new law to plug the leaky ship of state floundering around in the ocean of international dreams.

Only those Americans who look beyond the surface of their supposed ideal world of global isolation and internal social segregation can
perceive that all is not well for America or in America. There is a growing percentage of these folk, and they will not be silenced for ever, their voices are becoming more audible and frequent.

The POTUS rubber stamps more laws to deal with the growing unrest and ensures that the masses are dealt to without getting blood actually staining his own crisp clean shirt cuffs. That's for the populace, who'll top each other off under revised gun laws, race riots and internal cultural conflicts, black killing black, white killing white, then black and white killing each other. A controlled mayhem.

Americans are too close to the wood to see the trees, but those who have voluntarily left the States and lived some time outside get to see another reality, where the America dream is now only a sad reflection of its original self, seen in a smoky pool of oil.

**phomsanuk** · 03-04-2012, 12:10 AM

Read history, Elizabeth, Napolean, Hitler etc all make the USA look like amateurs.

**Loy Toy** · 03-04-2012, 12:14 AM

Originally Posted by chitown

What did you think of Denver International Airport?

I flew in from LA and was in and out of the domestic terminal in 10 minutes mate but I did comment to my friend that it looked a hell of a lot better then LA international airport.

**ENT** · 03-04-2012, 12:16 AM

^^Not so, USA has refined and extended their repertoire of skills.

**Ceburat1** · 03-04-2012, 12:17 AM

Originally Posted by sabang

Originally Posted by Ceburat1

I am proud to be an American.

Nothing wrong with that- but as an American living in Thailand you hardly need to be reminded that everyone and everything is not either amerkin or wannabe amerkin.

I have no problem with that.

**ralphlsasser** · 03-04-2012, 04:12 AM

With all the know it all dumb nuts on here, I'm sure you are the authority about all the countries of the world except your own. Sad really. With your knowledge (sic) you should be the PM.

**ENT** · 03-04-2012, 05:34 AM

Who should be the PM of what?
The PM of Farts?

**Boon Mee** · 03-04-2012, 06:11 AM

Originally Posted by ENT

there is a large mass of the population who will naturally and instinctively rise up defensively if America is challenged in any way.

Think Red Dawn:

**ENT** · 03-04-2012, 06:23 AM

The kids who watched that must be heading into middle age by now.

Hollywood and MGM have ahell of a lot to answer for.
It was they who spread the faux news (Fox/ Pathe News of the time along with technicolour movies (wow what a blast) all over the world proclaiming US superiority in all things and how they saved the world from Hitler, the Japs, Russia and the Martians.

Some people still believe all that crap FFS!

**Rural Surin** · 03-04-2012, 06:50 AM

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

I flew in from LA and was in and out of the domestic terminal in 10 minutes mate but I did comment to my friend that it looked a hell of a lot better then LA international airport.

That's only because you're white and English-speaking.

**Rural Surin** · 03-04-2012, 06:55 AM

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Originally Posted by ENT

there is a large mass of the population who will naturally and instinctively rise up defensively if America is challenged in any way.

Think Red Dawn:

Rather dreamy. Stuff of fantasy as to if Americans would rise up if such a time arose.

**bsnub** · 03-04-2012, 06:58 AM

Lewis Black is a funny mother fcuker and spot on here. As an American I can say that I get really tired of all the empty flag waving and grandstanding that many of my fellow countrymen participate in. A sort of blind patriotism. I take no part in it.

We can see the massive cost that that type of thinking has created. America is destroying itself from within. The only way that that can change is by the awakening of the common citizen to rise up against the inequality that exists and force change upon the politicians.

Sadly too many Americans are sheep and are happy being spoon fed their information by such corrupt sources like fox news etc. So its doubtful that America's current course of destruction will change anytime soon. Like sheep to a slaughter.

**ENT** · 03-04-2012, 07:11 AM

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Originally Posted by ENT

there is a large mass of the population who will naturally and instinctively rise up defensively if America is challenged in any way.

Think Red Dawn:

Rather dreamy. Stuff of fantasy as to if Americans would rise up if such a time arose.

Think 9/11, Iraq and Afghanistan.

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