Thread: What Do You Suggest We Do?

Originally Posted by Neruo

... wait a minute, isn't America supposed to be the good guy? No wait, America sucks just as hard as Saddam or Castro or whoever you want to kill.[/b]

You may not agree with U.S. policy and thats fine, but take a look back into history. How many European powers raped and exploited African, Asian, North and South American nations? I can name a few: Britain, France, Belgium, Spain, and THE NETHERLANDS! Don't tell me the United States is the "bad guy" when your nations did much worse in as little as half a century ago. Why do you think Africa is the mess that it is today? Europe caused many of the racial, economic, and political problems that continue to plague the continent. Europe has also done very little to clean up its botched imperialist experiment. If you want to talk about atrocities, pick up a European History textbook. Or maybe take a look at the picture in your signature, the one with the pot calling the kettle black.

I can't be too harsh though. Both Europe and the United States have undoubtedly contributed a great deal of good things to the world. The one fact that you must remember is that people are fundamentally the same. When any group of people attains a position of power, that group exerts is dominance and will upon those who are weaker. This has occured since the beginning of recorded history. Through the centuries every major power has naturally put its own interests before those of others. On every inhabited continent, power struggles have taken place. This is not an issue of being American or European or Middle-Eastern. We are all the same. When we get power we often abuse it. That is why it is ignorant, Neuro, to say that you hate 75% of all Americans. Your statement would be the same as me saying that I hate 75% of Europeans because of imperialism or lack of support for the United States.

Originally Posted by Borshkevski

You may not agree with U.S. policy and thats fine, but take a look back into history. How many European powers raped and exploited African, Asian, North and South American nations? I can name a few: Britain, France, Belgium, Spain, and THE NETHERLANDS! Don't tell me the United States is the "bad guy" when your nations did much worse in as little as half a century ago. Why do you think Africa is the mess that it is today? Europe caused many of the racial, economic, and political problems that continue to plague the continent. Europe has also done very little to clean up its botched imperialist experiment. If you want to talk about atrocities, pick up a European History textbook. Or maybe take a look at the picture in your signature, the one with the pot calling the kettle black.

I can't be too harsh though. Both Europe and the United States have undoubtedly contributed a great deal of good things to the world. The one fact that you must remember is that people are fundamentally the same. When any group of people attains a position of power, that group exerts is dominance and will upon those who are weaker. This has occured since the beginning of recorded history. Through the centuries every major power has naturally put its own interests before those of others. On every inhabited continent, power struggles have taken place. This is not an issue of being American or European or Middle-Eastern. We are all the same. When we get power we often abuse it. That is why it is ignorant, Neuro, to say that you hate 75% of all Americans. Your statement would be the same as me saying that I hate 75% of Europeans because of imperialism or lack of support for the United States.[/b]

Unfortunately, some Europeans have not yet learned that stereotypes are not very accurate. We Americans are good people and the rest of the world only pays attention to the bad things we have done instead of the overwhelming amount of good things we have done, higher in quantity and quality than what they are doing. America isn't bad or evil, it is just a big target and thus, a big scapegoat.