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Originally Posted by bradclark1
It might have to do with the fact that we stick our noses in everyone else's business and as such we affect their lives as well as ours.
The countries of europe are not large in size and have neighbors on all sides with traffic to and from country to country so therefore your neighbors politics/economics etc. affect you.
Toss a stone into a pond and it causes ripples.
The average American on the other hand does'nt even know where Scotland is on the map let alone France etc. Most Americans don't even know where our states are located on a map. We are a self centered and ignorant people as you said. You didn't say those exact words but that is what you are saying, and proudly at that.
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But yes America is still the greatest country in the world, but we do have our problems.
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You get no argument about the downsides of playing world cop from me, I'm pretty much a national isolationist but what you call self centered and ignorant i call the common courtesy of minding ones own business. In any case as i said such ignorance in this 21st century with it's mass communications and nearlyinstantaneous travel isn't probably the smart choice either.
And yes, we do have our problems but America is still the greatest country in the world. That's only a slightly differerent version of your edit but, I think a significant one. Glass half empty/half full argument.