FREEDOM FOR QUEBEC AND TIBET !!!
Is it correct to call oneself a "US American"?
I actually heard Tibet is fairly well off compared to the poorer nations of China. I could be wrong. I dunno. It's just what I heard.
Are you joking? Tibet is a fiercely repressed nation by China. They are very poor and their national identity is prosecuted. Other parts of China are also as poor but at least they feel Chinese and are a bit happier.
Actually I'm not joking; One of my friends, who is Chinese, told me they're fine and everyone should relax. I don't know anything about the situation.
Actually I'm not joking; One of my friends, who is Chinese,
What did you expect since he is a Chinese?
If he was Tibetan he woud not say the same.
What did you expect since he is a Chinese?
If he was Tibetan he woud not say the same.
European cultures have developed through mistakes. If a weaknesses were apparent, it would have been exposed by one of the neighbouring countries.
American culture was formed with a mish mash of peoples escaping so called restrictive cultures to set up in the land of oppurtunity. This helped to create the Wild West and other lawless areas. The problem was, there were no neighbouring countries to keep a check on this or exploit any weaknesses. The Mexicans were too worried about themselves to take any notice and the same with the Canadians.
War breeds technology. Many advances have been made during times of war (fighter planes and the atom bomb in recent generations) and as America constantly seems to be at war with something (Saddam or Iran, bin Laden or the Taleban, Drugs, Nicaragua, Cuba) then it is hardly surprising that somebody here wrote that the Internet and technology etc is American culture.
Culture is like a mouldy cheese, you cannot develop one overnight, it has to be left to go bad before it can come good again.
American culture was formed with a mish mash of peoples escaping so called restrictive cultures to set up in the land of oppurtunity. This helped to create the Wild West and other lawless areas. The problem was, there were no neighbouring countries to keep a check on this or exploit any weaknesses. The Mexicans were too worried about themselves to take any notice and the same with the Canadians.
War breeds technology. Many advances have been made during times of war (fighter planes and the atom bomb in recent generations) and as America constantly seems to be at war with something (Saddam or Iran, bin Laden or the Taleban, Drugs, Nicaragua, Cuba) then it is hardly surprising that somebody here wrote that the Internet and technology etc is American culture.
Culture is like a mouldy cheese, you cannot develop one overnight, it has to be left to go bad before it can come good again.
<<The internet is not American. It was invented at CERN.>>
Incorrect. The internet is indeed an American invention. The World Wide Web was invented at CERN.
Incorrect. The internet is indeed an American invention. The World Wide Web was invented at CERN.
<<Internet wouldn't be very much without the world wide web.>>
Whatever, you're still wrong.
Whatever, you're still wrong.
Hi.
I agree that it is a habit for you, US Americans, to call yourselves "americans", a bad habit indeed. ALSO smoking it's a BAD habit, which make it subjetc of erradication, no matter how difficult this could be.
Historically it comes from your Monroe president, who established the "America for the Americans" policy, taking advantage that the rest of the continent was filled with tiny, new and unstable countries, recently freed from Spain. Since then, all around the world the word "America" stands wrongly for your country as if it was the whole hemisphere.
So, keeping that mot nowadays is not only a gesture of extreme arrogance and selfishness and total desdain for the rest of the continent, but also completely anachronical and absurd. Since now, all countries in this big continent are whole independent nations.
By now, I will call you Unitedstatians from now on... Which by the way, could be also unfair, because Mexico for example, its complete name is: Mexican United States. But well... we have to call you somehow, hahaha!
Regards,
JL.
I agree that it is a habit for you, US Americans, to call yourselves "americans", a bad habit indeed. ALSO smoking it's a BAD habit, which make it subjetc of erradication, no matter how difficult this could be.
Historically it comes from your Monroe president, who established the "America for the Americans" policy, taking advantage that the rest of the continent was filled with tiny, new and unstable countries, recently freed from Spain. Since then, all around the world the word "America" stands wrongly for your country as if it was the whole hemisphere.
So, keeping that mot nowadays is not only a gesture of extreme arrogance and selfishness and total desdain for the rest of the continent, but also completely anachronical and absurd. Since now, all countries in this big continent are whole independent nations.
By now, I will call you Unitedstatians from now on... Which by the way, could be also unfair, because Mexico for example, its complete name is: Mexican United States. But well... we have to call you somehow, hahaha!
Regards,
JL.
The correct term is American. This prescriptivist PC nonsense is getting out of hand.