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Originally Posted by soopaman2
No society is exempt from sucking. My first law of suckyness.
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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Target of the week. I like that. 
A good example of 'Nation bashing' is the huge American animosity towards France after they refused to support our incursion into Iraq in 2003. This is where all the "Cheese-eating surrender monkey" jokes and insults started. It's interesting that there aren't that many jokes about Germany in this regard, and virtually none at all aimed at Canada or New Zealand, who also opposed the invasion. |
In Europe itself there are little bits of animosity between nations from conflicts of a hundred years ago or more, the Netherlands looks at Belgium and wants the northern part of it back, France looks a Belgium and sees it as a nuisance, the Brits mutter under their breath at the French and Germans, the Dutch have football anger at the Germans, and hide their bicycles whenever the Germans are around, everyone thinks that the Spanish are lazy, and the Spanish think that everyone else should just stop sticking their noses in where its not wanted...and nobody will let Germany forget about World War Two, the Russians about the Soviet Union, or France about Napoleon.
And that's not even beginning to talk about how Poland feels about Germany and Russia...
