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No need for close tabs, it's enough with a general picture of what's the person is doing. And that's reflected by society. Mayby you need to get out more.


Tell me, who many non-americans have you meat and talked to? WP dosen't count. (We aren't really prepresentative for our nations. ^^)

My Kuwaiti roommate and a number of other international students at my university. Besides that, the perspective gained from studying history that people are pretty much the same, everywhere and always.

When enough people put their shoulder to the wheel, it turns.

ruveyn

But cultures are not.

True, but they still share many features in common.

And there are many important and perhaps crucial features they do not share and that makes all the difference.

Indeed.

Humanity has yet to produce a culture that transcends that shortcomings of democracy. I'm not holding my breath.

As an American still, though located in Helsinki which seems to me almost in a different galaxy, I am pained by the awful madness of the country in its present state. I grew up loving its ideals of freedom and equality before the law and respect for the individual and the great warm heartbeat of its hope in the future. As I grew older I got to know how false all this was, about how shallow its actual dynamics were and how the poor and neglected lived and died in misery and the common man who was glorified by Norman Corwin and Aaron Copeland was just a dream as fragile as Oz and the many political fairytales taught to schoolchildren were as cruel as the unrealities taught by the major religions about the goodness of the inner nature of mankind. I know and appreciate that it's not all false, that there are real people who behave like that, but the major forces that move the world are not kind and never have been. I have been treated with kindness and respect by my fellow Americans, by people I have known in Paris, France, in Berlin, Germany, by both Arabs and Jews in Israel and by people here in Finland who have given me refuge and permitted my family to be Finns in a surprisingly civilized country when compared to the insanities now possessing my country of birth. Like the old father of a friend of mine here in Helsinki, my old America seems to be descending into some national version of Alzheimer's syndrome with frenzied cruelties tearing the country apart and I miss my old illusions.

i like this country, i dont love it. that is to say, loving an ideology just isnt my thing. but hey we do have the best food here and thats all that really matters

American seems to have gone from its infancy to its decadence without ever having become civilized in between. It is really a shame. So much energy and talent led astray.

ruveyn

I hope to god that you are not talking about America or that you are joking.

Why? Its a country where you can eat cuisine from all over the world.

We do have very good food here, most of which came from somewhere else. People of many nations have come to these shores and brought their cook books with them.

ruveyn

Do fried twinkies count as cuisine?

Haha, I hope you're not saying that the Swedish cuisine is any better. Thankfully you can eat food from all over the world here, too.