Please explain Americans to me · 8:51am Oct 27th, 2015
You lot confuse me. You go around starting wars, making peace, destroying your own economy, giving massive amounts of money to fix problems elsewhere while there are dozens of problems still in your own country. Your rude, funny, kind, cruel, racist, altruistic and come in a million colours. You wanted my country to descend back into chaos and fear, yet came and offered support when the Tsunami hit us. I have made both friends and enemies there, and weapons are available to the point that any troubled person can get a hold of one easily and go on a slaughter. You bombed an oil rich country over an 'chemical attack on their own citizens' despite that country having no way to get access to that weaponry. Your own leadership comes in conflict with each other instead of working together. What was the Congress thinking when they sent that letter? People are overly sensitive or ignorant of other's feelings. Your country provide our former dictator-in-progress with the money and resources he needed to get to that point, until the Military removed him. I know Thailand is hardly perfect either, but I have lived most of my life here so I understand our flaws and accept them. Europe is clear and makes sense, and the Scandinavian countries are one of the happiest places in the world, proving a mixed policy leaning on the left is quite effective in preventing the country from becoming a shithole. The United States of America, the land of 'freedom'? I'm bewildered.
3502536 I enjoy studying religions and philosophies and deconstructing them, and I found this name after reading up on that same guide and it stuck.
You're not alone. I often find myself looking into the abyss, but my perspective is probably a little different from yours. I'm sitting in the maelstrom, while you get to stand by the wayside. It's...boggling, the sheer amount of different people live here. But then, I didn't expect anything less from the 'melting pot'. It's a place where people supposedly melt into a conglomerate, but I know better. Like water and oil, we don't 'mix'; we just get to call the same pot home.
I really can't make sense of it from my end, either. At best, I'd call it a loose coalition of individuals.
It's an interesting observation. I feel as if many countries around the world know more about the United States than the US knows about other countries. This could be due to the widely-felt influence of the US around the world. For example, the Thai people probably got an up close look at the US during the Vietnam War, while there has been no such opportunity for Thais to make an impression on the US.
As a US citizen, I like to think we do more good than harm. That might be a debatable point, but we certainly aren't the worst country out there. Doing regular humanitarian work and not making people disappear for saying the wrong thing are positive points.
As an aside, I agree completely that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was misguided. While they did have and did use chemical weapons on Kurds and Iranians in the 1980s, in the leadup to 2003, nobody seemed to remember the weapons were destroyed by the coalition after Desert Storm and regular UN inspections after that turned up nothing.