You \'\'seem\'\' (notice the \'\') to think everyone is critizising the US because you\'re so great, we\'re all jealous of you, our countries are ****e, yada yada yada.
Wrong. I am pissed about the critizising at all. I could care less for anyone\'s stupid reasons, I\'m pissed because in a forum I frequent, people feel it necessary to bash the country I live in and that pisses me off. I don\'t mind that you all have your views, that\'s fine, but as long as I don\'t have to hear about them everywhere I go (media or otherwise) then all is well. You live in your world and I\'ll live in mine, what\'s so bad about that?
Here\'s a newsflash: We DON\'T talk about the US all the time, we DON\'T critisize the US all the time, we\'re NOT out to get you guys all the time.
That\'s good of you to say so, but many of the forum members who do not live in the US feel it\'s their right and duty to bash us, quite frequently as of late I might add, to no end. It\'s already led to numerous threads being closed and everytime it happens, no one is around to stand up for the US, but this time, I\'m here and I\'m sick of it.
I see the US as a country like every other - it has flaws and it has strengths. Like ANY OTHER COUNTRY. That\'s the core point to me - America is a nation like the thousands of other countries that exists all over the world. Of course you guys are bigger and certainly plays a big role in the world, but to non-Americans our daily life doesn\'t *GASP* involve talking about/praising/dissing the US all the time.
Again, that\'s good to hear, but again I reiterate the point that on this particular forum, US is the butt-end of many insults. It may not happen everyday in every other country outside of the US, but some of the places I frequent, namely this one, it does and that\'s unacceptable in my opinion.
However, I think it can tend to be a problem - like in the submarine movie. Children/teens go watch the movie and thinks \'wow, based on a true story! How cool those Americans defeated the Nazis\' etc. If they rely on such historial \'facts\' from movies (and I\'m affraid lots of teens do) then they\'ll grow up with false information about that certain historical event. You might think that\'s just a small thing and irrelevant, but I think it can be a problem. At least if they don\'t learn the truth in school. Perhaps the filmmakers should think about the moral aspects of the information they\'ll send out to children - but I know they won\'t - they\'ll think \'how do we maximize profits... hmm, I know. Instead of those kinky Brits let\'s make the submarine crew American. Yes, that\'ll sell better...\'. Of course it doesn\'t matter to me, because I take it for what it is - mindless entertainment. But can you honestly say younger children will do the same?
Media is destroying countless thousands as the days go by with tons of false information thrown at us all from left and right. If a kid can\'t learn the facts for themselves, then what\'s the Internet for? I\'m sure I can find the whole entire truth about the U-571 incident on one simple webpage, but it\'s up to someone who really gives a damn to look it up. Most of the people who work now in office buildings making billions of dollars on software could care less about a bunch of guys in a sub who practically won the war themselves, much less their true nationality. It\'s a sad fact, but an accurate and true one nontheless. I don\'t blame anyone else for the stupidity of our children, no one except the parents. However, although certain things like false information are quite unappealing, there\'s nothing I can do about it except piss and moan, but that doesn\'t give any other country the right to diss us as freely as they want, which is my real point from the beginning.
