Most of the Americans I know......are intelligent, educated people who are well aware that there is a big world outside America that has done lots of stuff without them.
There may well be a majority of Americans who take no interest in foreign affairs, but how many average Britons take an interest in the political situation and history of, say Mexico for instance? Beyond what we see on the 10 O'Clock news anyway.
To class all Americans as narrow minded, jingoistic fools is to indulge in exactly the kind of behaviour you accuse them of.
(There may well be a majority of Americans who take no interest in foreign affairs, but how many average Britons take an interest in the political situation and history of, say Mexico for instance? Beyond what we see on the 10 O'Clock news anyway.
To class all Americans as narrow minded, jingoistic fools is to indulge in exactly the kind of behaviour you accuse them of.
Mystery_Bob,
Fri 21 Nov 2003, 2:19,
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True true.But im bitter. And Im applying a stereotype. Same way as you view us brits as angry bitter pathetic ... oh wait ....
Anyway - more to the point - Do we dump our garbage in your country?
You seem to be under the misapprehension......that I am American. I am Scottish.
I wouldn't blame an average American about having toxic waste brought here for disposal - there will be people on both sides of the Atlantic making large amounts of money on that deal, that's why we're getting it.
Nationality has nothing to do with that one.
(I wouldn't blame an average American about having toxic waste brought here for disposal - there will be people on both sides of the Atlantic making large amounts of money on that deal, that's why we're getting it.
Nationality has nothing to do with that one.
Mystery_Bob,
Fri 21 Nov 2003, 2:24,
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I wasnttalking about toxic waste. I was talking about the President.
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Fri 21 Nov 2003, 2:26,
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From your viewpoint of Wales......I think you have no grounds to mock me.
( Mystery_Bob,
Fri 21 Nov 2003, 2:28,
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