FIFA World Cup 2014

Skybird · 07-15-14, 05:50 AM

heartc,

no, you are not on my ignore list anymore since a longer time already, and back then I did put you there over a very rude, almost racist offence - not because of a disagreement in opinion. I have not forgotten, but forgiven.

I get you point in what you write above. I agree with much of it.

I cannot remember that I ever would have qualified for a description of thinking that "anything anti-American is good", as you put it. Like I also never were a socialist, like Neal some days ago indicated he thought I were, years ago. I am just critical on some things on which many Americans are uncritical.

When I was at school, in my teen days, I dreamed of immigrating to the US. It may not have been realistic, but unripe juvenile fantasizing - but I had a 5x5cm US flag on my school bag, and I admired Reagan. That socialist and anti-American I was, when I was 16, 17.

and that in West-Berlin (and that was an anti-American place indeed).

It's just that I grew older and started to see things more differentiated.

With my Leistungskurs English from school we once visited a musical performance of the theatre group of the German-American John F. Kennedy school in West-Berlin, almost all on stage were Americans. Their singing and dancing semi-professional! That was such a stunning performance, far superior to anything I had ever seen from being done in the various German schools I knew, that after that I was even more determined, for some time, to move to America one day. I asked my teacher about it, a nice and wonderful older lady that we truly loved and admired, her whole family had immigrated to Florida - she was the only one who later returned back to Germany. She did me a good service in getting me grounded again. The other help was my Japanese mentor and combat trainer at that time, whose family had been scattered across all the globe, with members having lost knowledge about and contact to each other.

07-15-14, 05:50 AM	#11
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,830 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	heartc, no, you are not on my ignore list anymore since a longer time already, and back then I did put you there over a very rude, almost racist offence - not because of a disagreement in opinion. I have not forgotten, but forgiven. I get you point in what you write above. I agree with much of it. I cannot remember that I ever would have qualified for a description of thinking that "anything anti-American is good", as you put it. Like I also never were a socialist, like Neal some days ago indicated he thought I were, years ago. I am just critical on some things on which many Americans are uncritical. When I was at school, in my teen days, I dreamed of immigrating to the US. It may not have been realistic, but unripe juvenile fantasizing - but I had a 5x5cm US flag on my school bag, and I admired Reagan. That socialist and anti-American I was, when I was 16, 17. and that in West-Berlin (and that was an anti-American place indeed). It's just that I grew older and started to see things more differentiated. With my Leistungskurs English from school we once visited a musical performance of the theatre group of the German-American John F. Kennedy school in West-Berlin, almost all on stage were Americans. Their singing and dancing semi-professional! That was such a stunning performance, far superior to anything I had ever seen from being done in the various German schools I knew, that after that I was even more determined, for some time, to move to America one day. I asked my teacher about it, a nice and wonderful older lady that we truly loved and admired, her whole family had immigrated to Florida - she was the only one who later returned back to Germany. She did me a good service in getting me grounded again. The other help was my Japanese mentor and combat trainer at that time, whose family had been scattered across all the globe, with members having lost knowledge about and contact to each other. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert. Last edited by Skybird; 07-15-14 at 06:06 AM.