It is an OPINION. I don’t think we gain much by insulting other countries. I have made it a point not to do so. Having moved around a lot, I have found that there are nice people and good things about a lot of places. And then there are places I was overjoyed to leave. When you start throwing arrows, you are going to get people’s hackles up.
When did I insult a country? I have done nothing of the sort. In point of fact, I love the USA. I’ve spent 14 months of my life there, and loved every bit of it.
which is something I can happily agree with, and what estesbob said here:
“Our country’s the best country on Earth, and if you don’t agree with me, then you can get stuffed”.
Sorry you feel that way.
I have the freedom to say “what’s up, my n******?” to a black person without being slapped for it. We don’t lock up foreign nationals for years without charge. We don’t have government sanctioned torture.
Neither do we. I take it then, that the answer to my question “none”.
When did I ever say the US was bad? Do you really think that only America has an asylum-seeker problem? Do you have any idea how many people try to sneak into Australia?
It’s as hard as it should be. I live about 50 kilometres from Port Arthur, the site of one of the worst massacres in our nation’s history. I love our gun laws! If this is oppression, then I am all for it!
I don’t know. I reckon the Australian Government could ask a paper to stop printing such a story, and the paper would probably listen. Not out of fear of reprisal, but because they would see the sense of it.
No! What ever gave you that idea?
Yes, since the Prime Minister has the real power and leadership.
So the ability to hold guns is what defines freedom? Can you be sunbathing topless in the US on normal beaches?
I don’t know, I’m not English, but I can say that it is OK to be Catholic now.
Oh, how ironic. And I though the US was one of the few “western” countries to actually constantly be breaking this. And it’s not only Guantánamo Bay.
Excess of taxes? What’s that?
This is the funniest thing I’ve heard today. Do you really believe that?
Look at the poverty in the US. A great numbers of people have a little chance to succeed in their lives with the gap between poor and rich getting wider and wider.
***Yes there is a gap between the rich and the poor in America, as in other places as well. (Remember somebody saying that “the poor will always be with you”?). Still, the poor in America would be considered well off in many countries in the world, including first world countries. ***
It’s also funny that if you want to get into a good university in the US you either have to be very rich, have famous family or be extremely smart. And you still have to have a considerable amount of money to educate yourself.
Absolutely not true. The US has a higher percentage of students go to college than most other countries. Where are you from? Let’s compare the number of college age young people that go to college in your country to the percentage in the US…
Now, what you see in the US is exactly what I don’t consider to be freedom. If what you call freedom is that the rich can get richer and enjoy more freedom while the poorer are getting poorer with almost no freedom at all then I’ll say - no, thank you.
***That’s why we are currently being inundated with all those “rich” Latinos coming across our borders. They know that by leaving their native lands they can become more poor in the US.***
The US did a good job in spreading its ‘ideals’.
Yeah, we did. That’s why there is more free countries in the world today than in previous years. Look at the link to Freedom House in one of my posts above. You can learn alot about comparative freedom from that site.
For some time now the US was shifting away from the old ideas as the world has changed as well. There is no Cold War for example.
Without the United States, the Cold War would have been lost and you’d be speaking Russian right now. No other country had the will, and ability, to stand up to the Soviet Union after WW2 other than the US. Yes, a number of other countries fought the good fight along with us, especially the UK and other NATO allies, but their fight would have been in vain without AMERICAN power…political, economic and military.
I can understand why there are so many conspiracy theories regarding 9/11 - they actually make a lot of sense from a political perspective (think of Pearl Harbor).
***Please don’t tell me that you are one of those people who believe that Roosevelt conspired with Churchill to allow the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor in order to bring the US into WWII…?
The last thing I will say is that the US can be viewed as the greatest “roger” state.
Afraid you lost me there. English translation please?
And who decides what is slander, racist and libel? Do you reallywant the Govt to decide ???
Actually, the government does decide these issues even in the US…through legislation and through the case law decisions of the courts.
I am as patriotic as any American…still, let’s not forget that Scripture tells us that the elect of God shall come from all nations. Americans do not have a monopoly on Godliness or even on political freedom.
As if. Australia has much better sport than in the USA, therefore Australia is the greatest country on Earth!
Cricket/Smicket. What’s important is that the Yanks can beat the Socceroos any day of the week.As if. Australia has much better sport than in the USA, therefore Australia is the greatest country on Earth!
I mean, you guys don’t even have cricket!
And, moreover, what’s the deal with Australian Rules Football? I mean, it looks *really, really *cool, but I have absolutely no idea what the dickens they are doing out there. It’s basically incomprehensible…As if. Australia has much better sport than in the USA, therefore Australia is the greatest country on Earth!
I mean, you guys don’t even have cricket!
Aha! The greatest game on Earth! You should see the Poms watching it for the first time. They’ll watch a whole game trying to figure out the off-side rule (there is no off-side rule…)
First of all every nationality will claim their own country is the greatest in the world and it is not something anyone can prove. You can only prove that some countries are bad (at least the governments of those countries).