Haha- americans.

[Volcs]

Volcs, I am just trying to make you understand. You keep refering to the debt, but you are the only one trying to make this in a relevant point to DTF's point. And I am mainly confiming that he is right and you haven't touched on it. deal with it, you are the only one trying to make this a competition. Take a deep breath and relax.

what the..?

dude, he says "canadas economy would be shit without the US" which came from nowhere, so I mentioned that we may be dependant on the US for economy, but our government isn't trillions in debt.

You're taking this the wrong way, I'm not pissed off.. we're just not understanding eachother.

[Liquid Blue]

guys i notice how americans rarely if ever make hate threads

do i smell

3RD WORLD JEALOUSY

The amount of " american's are fatburgers " topics would triple if even one of those topics existed, probably. We're supposed to take whiny bitching about shit we can't change yet are blamed for anyway and can't reply in kind about any other country, otherwise we will just "live up to the hype".

[PaulOakenfold]

whatever country invented trance music probably sucks the most

You're just looking for any excuse to fight Spybreak! aren't you?

[ShadowHand]

I agree that you could generalise the British as drunks, but hygiene is generally good here, I have no idea where that came from.

Gotta be the teeth

[Sleepy Weasel]

That quiz is dead easy.
Didn't know where Jesus was crusified. Then again, who gives a shit?

I didn't get any of the questions that other people mentioned, so obviously the quiz asks different questions and not the same 20 each time.

[Money]

[Kontrolz]

I'm an American and I think most Americans are idiots too. Although, if you look at people overall, most are idiots. If you focus on the morons of course it's going to seem like everyone is a moron. When is this ridiculus idea of saying, "Americans are dumb and fat" makes you cool going to end? It's kind of old now, don't you think volcs?

[Money]

I'm an American and I think most Americans are idiots too. Although, if you look at people overall, most are idiots. If you focus on the morons of course it's going to seem like everyone is a moron. When is this ridiculus idea of saying, "Americans are dumb and fat" makes you cool going to end? It's kind of old now, don't you think volcs?

foreigners are jealous, obviously embarassed to admit.

[Jerome Scuggs]

The amount of " american's are fatburgers " topics would triple if even one of those topics existed, probably. We're supposed to take whiny bitching about shit we can't change yet are blamed for anyway and can't reply in kind about any other country, otherwise we will just "live up to the hype".

I almost cried. Beautiful post. Perhaps we should go make some fake news articles that say "STUDIES PROVE - WORLD NOW 100% AMERICA-CLONED". Then perhaps they'd shut up.

[Edify]

i'm on one of the school Macs and the link isnt working for me.

[Ephemeral]

the part that made me giggle was the one about how we accept many other generalizations.

Ephemeral, relax, why get so defensive?

Each nation has a label.

Americans - self centered and dumb
British - Poor hygiene and drunks
Canadians - Polite, passive, eskimos
Asians - good at math, dog & cat eaters

I mean, how much of it is true? (well, in some cases, more than others..)
Generalizations take a percentage of people who happen to be very different individuals with one type of personality trait, and exploit it. As someone who has been to the US many times, I don't find Americans (IN GENERAL) to be very nice people... Americans walk with a destination, always having to prove that they are the greatest. Yup- it's a generalization, but it's also an observation.
In France, I met some of the kindest people, and I was amazed. I had no real previous misconceptions and didn't know what to expect when I got there (other than in Paris where I was expecting a very Voque atmosphere). Everyone was so mellow, "we'll get there when we get there", and I don't think I heard anyone raise their voice in the entire week I was there. I thought alot of Canadians were nice, I was shocked (and extremely impressed) at the hospitality I received over there. Does that mean all people from france are calm, nice people? No. But that's the impression I got.
Are all americans dumb, self-centered assholes? No, but you have people giving off that impression :P

Sorry, wasn't trying to be defensive. Of course there are dumb, self-centered assholes in the USA. But no country has a monopoly on dumb, self-centered assholes. The irony is overwhelming that people would come out and say this. Think about it, people (like that author of that web site) are pointing a finger and using sweeping generalizations to accuse an entire country of the same thing.

The US is a big place, I have lived here for 48 years and have met people of every kind and type. Where I live now, the mountains of North Carolina, the people are as kind and friendly as anywhere I have ever seen. But I have lived in other places were people hardly acknowledged each other as they passed on the street. I call that as having something for everyone. Not everyone wants to live in a small town environment. Not everyone wants to live in the anonymity of a large city. I call that diversity.

A valid observation would sound like, "When I visited NY city, the people I met did not seem that friendly to me." It tells the reader many things. The reader now knows that you were a visitor, that you visited only NYC, and that you have an opinion on the few people that you met. Nothing wrong with that. That is the way you sounded in your post, but that isn't the way the author of the web site sounded.

A generalization is when a person then extrapolates a small sample into a much larger conclusion. Example would be, “I have been to USA, and the people there are not friendly.” No sense of sample size, stated in a way that implies a factual nature as opposed to an opinion.

[Galleleo]

I think, to the world, the dumb, ignorant idiots of america are just seen more in the newspapers on the internet on tv, they tend to talk beofre they think unlike the thinking part of America, therefor we generalize quite quick towards the dumb, etc. I mean look at Bush, how do you expect to be taken seriously with a leader like that. I don't expect the Netherlands to be taken seriously aslong as we have Harry Potter.

[Ephemeral]

I think, to the world, the dumb, ignorant idiots of america are just seen more in the newspapers on the internet on tv, they tend to talk beofre they think unlike the thinking part of America, therefor we generalize quite quick towards the dumb, etc. I mean look at Bush, how do you expect to be taken seriously with a leader like that. I don't expect the Netherlands to be taken seriously aslong as we have Harry Potter.

Well, actually Bush is one of the highest educated presidents that US has ever had. It is the media who protrays him as stupid. Look at the facts, he graduated from Yale with a higher level degree and was Phi Beta Kappa. Aside from whether a person agrees with his political point of view, a person doesn't get that without having some intelligence.

So next time some newsguy or person says that Bush is 'stupid' or 'dumb', ask them where they got their degree. It is easy to flame people, it is easy to talk trash, it isn't so easy to get a Masters degree at Yale. So who is being dumb? A person who doesn't bother to check the facts or has political motivation to run their mouth, or a guy who put in the time and effort to get a higher level degree at Yale?

Frankly, I don't like Bush as a President and I don't like much of his political agenda. But I recognize when the media is biased and when someone has an axe to grind. Above all else, I take the time to discover the facts and sort the truth from opinion. I am an American, I have taken the time to think before I talk. I'm not so sure that this is true in many of the posts above.

I have an opinion about my country. I love it and I have some big issues with it. We have smart bombs but dumb kids. We have more people in the Department of Argiculture than we have farmers. The Department of Energy has an average of 1.6 vehicles per employees. The list goes on and on.

But we do some things well too. As I'm sure that many countires do.

[Vykromond]

Look at the facts, he graduated from Yale with a higher level degree and was Phi Beta Kappa. Aside from whether a person agrees with his political point of view, a person doesn't get that without having some intelligence.

I can safely tell you that this is not true.

[Ephemeral]

I can safely tell you that this is not true.

Born: July 6, 1946

Birthplace: New Haven, Conn.

Family: Parents George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Pierce Bush. Brothers Neil, Jeb, Marvin, and sisters Dorothy and Robin (who died of Leukemia at age three)

Wife: Laura (married 1977)

Children: Barbara and Jenna

Education:
· Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.
· BA (history) from Yale University
· MBA from Harvard University

I implied that he got his Masters from Yale, sorry it was Harvard.