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| quote: | Originally posted by itsTrueSonic
ok .. it's the day after thanksgiving, and it feels good to have a day off .. hehe .. but i don't know what francetuckers is talking about .. like france and other countries, we all have our melting pot types of people .. i am not talking about the different nationalities that live here, but the different types of people that live here .. the glutenous ones .. the lazy ones .. the brash ones .. the vivid ones .. the lifeless ones .. the ant-workers ..
but it seems the glutenous, lazy, and pompous people pop out more as the image of america, rather than the normal middle class workers surviving to pay extreme utility bills or car payments. i will tell you this .. tv is giving you the wrong image of america.. america is all about working hard to get what we want.. of course we have all the luxuries and amenity services available at our fingertips .. we are all thankful for that .. but there are also locations in america that do not have the same availability lifestyles .. like the slum/ghetto areas .. the country life that is far away from the metropolitian areas.. the areas where average income is far less than the regular median in the united states ..
i don't know about others think about the third world countries and everything, but i do care about it a lot. i do tithe regularly to the church i attend to keep it up, and whenever the church is offering money to help the "little sisters of the poor" or another one i can't think of right now .. i really don't have much luxuries if you're asking me, and i know many other tranceaddicts here don't have much either .. my family and i work hard to the position we are at right now .. we represent one of the many families that own small private businesses to keep us alive, and fight against the constant pressures of big business stealing our customers.. we work hard for our moneyw.. my family suffice with the necessary materials to keep us happy ..
there are many americans that work hard just to get by.. i know many families that couldn't afford the traditional turkey, so they bought the honey baked ham instead (which is not a bad alternative) .. we all give our thanks for whatever we have available at our fingertips and our roofs .. i am not going to get angry at you with your comments, but just say that your ideas of the 'regular' american life is not what you think it is .. |
Good post, itsTruSonic. 
The image "we" display may be the truth for many Americans, but keep in mind - when you shine the spotlight on a place for so long, of course you're bound to notice ALL the flaws. Things have just found a way to escalate to this grand hatred for everything American, despite regard for the individual who may or may not be more hard-working and cogniscient of his blessings in life than the Eurotrash insulting his lifestyle from thousands of miles away because of what a little box displaying light in his living room told him.
I cannot deny that francetuckers has "hit the nail on the head" but seeing as how that only applies to a small percentage (probably about the same as it does to any other country) theres about 200,000,000 more heads out there in America and not ALL of them are up their owner's asses.
When a large number become exceptions to the rule, your theory that Americans are slobbering, fat, ungrateful bastards is no longer an effective generalization, so don't try to pass it off as though it even describes all the people living outside of the midwestern United States. It would be kinda like me assuming that, since I've encountered one generalizing and abrasive french asshole, ALL the french must be generalizing and abrasive assholes. I've been to France several times, and I just know that it's not the truth.
Hypocrisy is an individual thing, for "society" does not truly exist - it is, ultimately, constituent of its individual citizens.
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