America Bashing

[AnewKINDofFEELIN 0]

I'm torn because I love German beer but also love French toast, Italian Pizza, Belgian Chocolate and Swedish bikinis, so I don't know which country I should defect to.

I prefer Belgian beer over German. By the way, you forgot brazilian wax.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

What does "anti-americanism" actually mean?

From what I've seen the label seems to be applied to any and everyone who criticises anything about the govt or govt policy.

[almaty 19]

I'm torn because I love German beer but also love French toast, Italian Pizza, Belgian Chocolate and Swedish bikinis, so I don't know which country I should defect to.

same here.,....also, French fries.....English muffins...Russian vodka...Armenian cognac ...i guess, i got to the country most socialistic...............

[*JG* 2]

I'm not rich by any means, yet never had any over the top problems with health care for myself or my family. Sometimes you just have to keep at them to get them to pay up.

Let me see, I have a full time job, a part time job, do work on the side for friends and now...to top it all off, I am expected to do someone else's full time job for them. Great.

America has the capacity to be the best country in the world but only if we stop being self indulgent, pull our heads out of the sand and get active in our country's politics.

What do we know about what our country is doing?

What do we know about the countries we are supporting?

My family has seen debilitating health issues in the last 10 years. We have not had major issues with any health care provider nor insurance companies.

Now dealing with the EEOC and disability discriminiation........I could write a book of complaints on that system.

I'm torn because I love German beer but also love French toast, Italian Pizza, Belgian Chocolate and Swedish bikinis, so I don't know which country I should defect to.

same here.,....also, French fries.....English muffins...Russian vodka...Armenian cognac ...i guess, i got to the country most socialistic...............

Cheap Tequila means I have to go to Mexico.

[AnewKINDofFEELIN 0]

What does "anti-americanism" actually mean?

From what I've seen the label seems to be applied to any and everyone who criticises anything about the govt or govt policy.

I usually just associate it with the people who are blindly opposed to everything american. There are certain people that just cannot take the good with the bad when it comes to America. To most of them, we're all Dubya cronies.

[DeadPoolX 9]

As far as I can see, a lot of people like criticizing the United States for few reasons other than it's a convenient target. Let's face it -- the U.S. is something of an "attention #######" and gets it's hands into practically everything around the globe. Whether or not the latter is a good thing is up for debate. The point is that, given the America's position on the world stage (i.e. "only surviving superpower") and the country's apparent "look at me, look at me!" attitude, it's really no wonder why many people from other nations find things to attack the U.S. on.

[AnewKINDofFEELIN 0]

Cheap Tequila means I have to go to Mexico.

Or Houston.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I'm torn because I love German beer but also love French toast, Italian Pizza, Belgian Chocolate and Swedish bikinis, so I don't know which country I should defect to.

I prefer Belgian beer over German. By the way, you forgot brazilian wax.

Dammit....and I also love Chinese food.

[almaty 19]

I'm torn because I love German beer but also love French toast, Italian Pizza, Belgian Chocolate and Swedish bikinis, so I don't know which country I should defect to.

I prefer Belgian beer over German. By the way, you forgot brazilian wax.

Dammit....and I also love Chinese food.

hey brother stevie, your communism is showing

[DeadPoolX 9]

Cheap Tequila means I have to go to Mexico.

Or Houston.

I wouldn't bet on that.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

What does "anti-americanism" actually mean?

From what I've seen the label seems to be applied to any and everyone who criticises anything about the govt or govt policy.

I usually just associate it with the people who are blindly opposed to everything american. There are certain people that just cannot take the good with the bad when it comes to America. To most of them, we're all Dubya cronies.

Well there are people like that... though as far as I know they don't tend to live here. I knew plenty of people in the UK who subscribed to stereotypes about american people and culture - the difference of course was that they had never visited the country, let alone lived here.

Still I think as a label the whole "anti-american" thing is overused - but then again I tend to view talk radio soundbites with the cynicism they deserve. Its just another way of dividing the public along arbitrary ideological lines.

[allousa 1]

Just because I disagree with how our government has handled themselves overseas for the last 50 years....I'm an "America basher"????

I do think some of our liberties are disappearing with the birth of the "Patriot Act", yet I've always acknowledged this is still the best country to live in.

Isn't that what makes this "America"...that I have a right to voice my opinions? I was under the impression that the ability to speak our differences is what constitutes democracy.

And since when did traveling/living overseas define someone's "Americanism"?

This post was not about you Allousa or anyone else in particular. It was in response to multiple postings I have seen over the last year and fervent anti americanism.

I do not know you. All I know is that you spent 4 years seperated from someone you are legally married to.

I also do not know ANY of the details of your case. I know I have been married to my husband and it will be a year in May and I have no former asylum case or overstay to deal or contend with and I CANNOT GET HIM HERE> I have to wait and wait for the bureaucratic rules to churn. THIS TOPIC WAS NOT DIRECTED AT YOU or anyone else. You have the right to voice your opinions and after what you have been put through, its enough to lose home in their system

Travelling overseas and living overseas extensively just means you have been more exposed to on a daily basis the bigger realities of living overseas versus going on vacation. You tend not to romanticise life outside of your country if you have actually faced hardships in foreign countries.

I have traveled overseas several times now to visit my husband and meet his family. If anything it has made me more AWARE of the things that my own country's government has been doing for the last 50 years. I served in the military and used to be EXTREMELY patriotic. But since I've met my husband and met his family, I've seen how they themselves have suffered because of Western involvement. I'm speaking of the fact that they are Palestinian. My father-in-law still holds a deed to land that was bulldozed by the IDF. My husband's cousin was actually shot dead at his FRONT DOOR when soldiers came to the door looking for his brother. He knew his brother was innocent and argued with the soldier who shot them dead. They've had two family members that were killed, an elderly husband and wife, by tank fire as they rolled through their neighborhood. I won't even go into how they've been trying to get my sister-in-law out of there for over 4 years now, but she cannot get across the border to have travel documents issued by Israel.

While I have COMPLETELY lost hope in our government, I still have hope about the people of America. I still have hope that the people of the WORLD will someday say ENOUGH of all of this bombing, fighting, killing and make a change...a change for peace. I'm still clinging to the hope that somehow, someway, someday we can all get along.

[DeadPoolX 9]

I think the problem is that foreigners (and I don't mean to insult half the population here, but I really don't know what else to call individuals who aren't native to and don't live in your home country) often only see what our government is doing and therefore, come to associate the U.S. government with America. So if there's a president that's unpopular with much of the world (and Congress is backing him up), people in other countries will associate that administration's actions with the whole of the United States.

That's not exactly accurate (Americans, like any other group, tend to agree and disagree with different parts of their government), but since most foreigners probably have very limited exposure to the U.S. outside of the media, it's really not surprising they'd think this way. To be fair, Americans have a similar problem when concerning those outside the U.S. as well.

[AnewKINDofFEELIN 0]

What does "anti-americanism" actually mean?

From what I've seen the label seems to be applied to any and everyone who criticises anything about the govt or govt policy.

I usually just associate it with the people who are blindly opposed to everything american. There are certain people that just cannot take the good with the bad when it comes to America. To most of them, we're all Dubya cronies.

Well there are people like that... though as far as I know they don't tend to live here. I knew plenty of people in the UK who subscribed to stereotypes about american people and culture - the difference of course was that they had never visited the country, let alone lived here.

Still I think as a label the whole "anti-american" thing is overused - but then again I tend to view talk radio soundbites with the cynicism they deserve. Its just another way of dividing the public along arbitrary ideological lines.

Fo sho. Either you are with us or you.........smell like an unusual mixture of bleu cheese and heineken.

[*JG* 2]

Cheap Tequila means I have to go to Mexico.

Or Houston.

Nah.......that village will be getting it's idiot back soon!