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Originally Posted by Puster Bill
If you are a European and you can't understand why the United States is the way it is, remember that it's a country largely made up of people who are descendants of people who *LEFT* Europe, often for *VERY* good reasons.
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Very good reasons maybe, but only rarely socialism.
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And while the track record of Europe as a whole isn't too bad for the last, say 20 years or so, if you go back farther than that, it starts looking a lot less rosy than it does today. Go back to within living memory, and Europe starts looking like a place to avoid at all costs.
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Euhm, wait a minute, you've been clearly reading some very strange history books. Everything I've heard from my parents/grandparents/uncles/aunts etc. tells a very different story.