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05 Mar 2017, 9:53 pm

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The rest of the world's people sure seem to do a respectable job of mimicking us.
I'm seeing more jealousy here but that's hardly surprise.


Really? How (and more importantly, why) do "the rest of the world's people" mimic United Statesians? I just don't see it. As for being "jealous" - come on, you're not serious are you? This is the second time you have hurled that particular accusation against me, but where is the evidence for it?


Yeah right, the world follows Senegalese fashion, music, and cinema.
What was I thinking?
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06 Mar 2017, 12:29 am

..." Former draft-dogers " ? In the Vietnam sense ? Anybody who did that in the 60s/70s is by definition older than me - I am too young to have been draftable age during 'Nam - and I am , well , look left...Would a Jimmy Carter-forgiven d.d. who came back be worried NOW ? Likewise , who would " recent
wannabes " be now ?


uote="AspieUtah"]Without any evidence, am I more right than wrong that a disproportionate number of these flee-ers are former American draft-dodgers and recent wannabes? Of course, leaving the United States and even renouncing U.S. citizenship is quite easy. Getting back in is the hard part.[/quote]


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06 Mar 2017, 12:43 am

Raptor wrote:
Lintar wrote:
Raptor wrote:
The rest of the world's people sure seem to do a respectable job of mimicking us.
I'm seeing more jealousy here but that's hardly surprise.


Really? How (and more importantly, why) do "the rest of the world's people" mimic United Statesians? I just don't see it. As for being "jealous" - come on, you're not serious are you? This is the second time you have hurled that particular accusation against me, but where is the evidence for it?


Yeah right, the world follows Senegalese fashion, music, and cinema.
What was I thinking?
:roll:

Don't be quick to judge...the west tends to have a "vulture culture" where we appropriate foreign ideas and claim them as ours...



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06 Mar 2017, 8:18 pm

Raptor wrote:
Lintar wrote:
Raptor wrote:
The rest of the world's people sure seem to do a respectable job of mimicking us.
I'm seeing more jealousy here but that's hardly surprise.


Really? How (and more importantly, why) do "the rest of the world's people" mimic United Statesians? I just don't see it. As for being "jealous" - come on, you're not serious are you? This is the second time you have hurled that particular accusation against me, but where is the evidence for it?


Yeah right, the world follows Senegalese fashion, music, and cinema.
What was I thinking?
:roll:


Youssou N'Dour is from Senegal. You may recall he had a hit single with Neneh Cherry (yes, she's from the U.S.) back in 1994.

People in other countries DO have their own singers, actors (ex. "Bollywood" in India - you may have heard of it), and cultural icons. It really is strange that most people in the English-speaking world seem to be under this strange delusion that culture only ever comes from "America". Truly bizarre.



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06 Mar 2017, 9:51 pm

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Raptor, why do you have a picture of a terrorist as your 'avatar'?

Just let your imagination run with it...
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I'll have a go, is it an old picture of an IRA cadre?

Give that man a cigar!
Now go report it, claiming it sets off "triggers".

Now then, didn't George Bush Jnr outlaw the real IRA in the US? froze their assets? called them child killers?

If I really was IRA do you think I'd be advertising it?


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06 Mar 2017, 9:53 pm

It's ideal when we pick up foreign ideas/influences/music, etc. and credit the source.

I see nothing wrong with incorporating these ideas and meshing them with ours.



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06 Mar 2017, 9:53 pm

cyberdad wrote:
Raptor wrote:
Lintar wrote:
Raptor wrote:
The rest of the world's people sure seem to do a respectable job of mimicking us.
I'm seeing more jealousy here but that's hardly surprise.


Really? How (and more importantly, why) do "the rest of the world's people" mimic United Statesians? I just don't see it. As for being "jealous" - come on, you're not serious are you? This is the second time you have hurled that particular accusation against me, but where is the evidence for it?


Yeah right, the world follows Senegalese fashion, music, and cinema.
What was I thinking?
:roll:

Don't be quick to judge...the west tends to have a "vulture culture" where we appropriate foreign ideas and claim them as ours...

The sound of someone realizing they are on the slippery slope of losing an argument....if an argument is what this is.


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06 Mar 2017, 9:55 pm

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It's ideal when we pick up foreign ideas/influences/music, etc. and credit the source.

I see nothing wrong with incorporating these ideas and meshing them with ours.


Of course the US has foreign influences BUT we have greater influence on the world than any several countries.


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07 Mar 2017, 12:48 am

Raptor wrote:
kraftiekortie wrote:
It's ideal when we pick up foreign ideas/influences/music, etc. and credit the source.

I see nothing wrong with incorporating these ideas and meshing them with ours.


Of course the US has foreign influences BUT we have greater influence on the world than any several countries.

Yes that's true in the modern context. But you gotta admit it's quite amusing reading right wing rhetoric about how European people are responsible for all the world's greatest inventions when those boasting about white supremacy have never done anything constructive themselves other than bask in the glory of other people.