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Originally Posted by Konovalov
I think that one gains a better knowledge and understanding of a country and it's people by travelling throughout it and meeting it's people over an extended period of time.
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I would strongly agree with you, call me weak at soul, but I was actually offended by someone who lived in Holland when I having a chat over ventrilo (yes I know he didn't mean anything by it and no i wasn't pissed, I was more... hurt... perhaps?)
" Your not like most Americans"
"How so?"
"Well, most American's seem to think they own the world and that they are superior"
" What would give you that impression?"
"The news mainly, CNN and the such."
Now, you must think, is it our fault people see us this way? The average American Cit? Are we really that arrogant of a people as a whole?
Perhaps, the newscasters don their cloak of super American patriotism, and prepare to march across other country's feelings in their steel plated boots.
Perhaps even, and most likely in my opinion, it is our current administration, maybe the fact we can't keep our fecking hands to our selves so to say, maybe the fact the dragged several other nations into a war that is mostly un-popular,
Let me tell everyone this here, let me tell everyone something they already know, that perhaps they forget it whenever it is convienant, but we don't vote on these conflicts, we are not a true democracy, we are more akin to a republic, or as they sugar coat it in my school books today, " Represntive Democracy"
We did not vote to go to Iraq! We did not elect a presedent with conquest on our mind! We did not say, "Let's vote for someone who will crusade in foregin lands for us to bring us more oil!"
As I see it, we vote for someone we think will behave a certain way, in a certain situation, and we pray for the best.
Sorry for the soapbox speech
