I'm not sure I ever made an introduction yet.

[Krauter]

Forgive my ignorance

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by Krauter

Forgive my ignorance

Ignorance? Errors are how you learn. We need legions of young people such as you.

[Krauter]

One can only learn when one is open to criticism and feedback

[razark]

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

Ignorance? Errors are how you learn. We need legions of young people such as you.

Learning? Kids aren't supposed to be learning! They're supposed to be hanging out and having sex with adults and running the world.

[Penguin]

Wow, a fecesload of interesting topics derived from this troll's thread.

ok, I try to adress some points:

Bolly-/Hollywood:

from the output of films they are both equal in amount, but for most of us who are raised in western culture the Bollywood productions look strange and unappealing. On a global scale I would just say that Hollywood productions just meet the taste of the masses - and have the biggest production and PR budget
When we speak of Hollywood outside of the US we mean generally all big-budget productions from the States, regardless if they were shot in Berlin, Germany or Berlin, KY.
Yes, Hollywood dominates the global market, but in terms of quality I am a big fan of the independent cinema. USA, Scandinavia today, France, Italy, Japan in the 60s-80s.
Personally I think the most innovative moving pictures which come from the states are series productions of the cable networks, They have great authors and most important take the time to tell a story and don't shy off to touch controversial themes.


the decline of the heavy industry
The region where I was raised was also dominated by the heavy industry. It went down in the 80s till the 00's. Sadly it never fully recovered from it's decline. I must add that our tertiary sector (service industry) was much lower in terms of percentages than in North America, but anyway it was not able to replace all the lost jobs. So I cannot give away muich hope here...

next: the dumbing down of the people/pupils (us:students ) - gotta grab some food and a beer first

[Krauter]

Originally Posted by razark

Learning? Kids aren't supposed to be learning! They're supposed to be hanging out and having sex with adults and running the world.

Don't forget Chilling with friends! And being Independent. EVERYONE must be independent.. Wait..

[razark]

Originally Posted by Krauter

EVERYONE must be independent..

YES! We must all be independent together!

Edit:
(And if you're not like us, then you're just being one of them conformist sheep!)

[Krauter]

Exactly, because who wants to be the same as everyone else!? We're all different. See I'm a Jock but he's just a wannabee Jock

[Penguin]

Brian: "You are all individuals"

masses: "Yes, we are all indivuals!"

single voice: "Not me!"

[Krauter]

Originally Posted by Penguin

Brian: "You are all individuals"

masses: "Yes, we are all indivuals!"

single voice: "Not me!"

Originally Posted by Krauter

Uhh.. no.. Wow. What the hell kind of things are you learning in school? Oh wait, it's just for sex and chilling out with friends, my bad. Where I'm from, schools actually teach and students aren't a bunch of little dipsh!t knowitall teens.

Companies in America owe huge debt to overseas companies in Europe and Asia,

Hollywood is Hollywood, there will never really be any huge competitor (in my eyes, someone please correct me if I'm wrong).

Universal language right now is English but in the next 10-15 years bet your ass that the majority of the population on Earth will split their languages between Mandarin or Arabic.

Politics in the States right now are laughable, indeed politics in Canada are at the same state too ..

Militarily yeah sure I see the U.S on top for the next few decades merely for its leftover prowess from the Cold War. Sorry to say it but my prediction for how the American nation will end up is in a similar state to Russia today. To me, a superpower can only remain that when it has a competitor and the resources to remain so, after said competitor is gone, things start falling apart and eventually the nation will consume itself from the inside.

Economically. Kid, really? Have you looked to the East and seen how much debt China and Japan hold out on the U.S? That, and with India and China quickly rising to be the next superpowers, I don't think that the U.S is going to be near the top of the food chain economically.

Krauter

The USD is the international dollar used by the United Nations and other international organizations.

Also, whenever you sign up for a forum or website, and it has a drop-down box of countries to choose from, United States of America is pretty much always the first option, and then it goes alphabetically after USA.

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

We need legions of young people such as you.

Thanks.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Solace

Most people on internet forums are teens. Just not on Subsim.

But this is Subsim, not the rest of the internet. Here we have some fun, but mostly try to comport ourselves as adults. You say you are 18, yet you post like the 13-year-olds you lust after. Krauter also says he is 18, yet I would have thought him in his mid-twenties at least.

The image you project is everything. Yours needs a lot of improvement.