Opportunity.

And Kaworu your posts strikes me more as Bipolar maybe idk

Ok honestly guys. America is a friggin continent. Your contry is called "United States of America". "American" is the standard way to refer to a citizen of the USA, but you can't reffer to the USA as "AMERICA". Damn it.

I think we forgot that other countries exist on the American continent I'm so sorry Canada + Mexico + South America. (Read: Americans equals stupid).

overstated

i know this topic is specifically about AMERICA but i knew when i walked in here i'd expect to see stupid college kid mentality and when I read this
i knew i was right.

i'm not trying to be that POST 9/11 PARANOIA I LUUUUVVVV AMERIKA guy but holy fuck if there is any country in the world that is criticized more than america for problems that exist everywhere then please give me a fucking link, guys.

shit. you want to talk about religion, would any of you watch a mother bath her child in cow urine with a straight face?

but god, fucking jehova witnesses and their door to door sales fucking twats.

High school kids*

Yeah, you're right to an extent. But there's a reason why people criticize America The United States. For all its hype, it's insanely hypocritical. Like you've said before -- it's overstated. We pride ourselves upon democracy and freedom -- yet * A LOT * of people don't vote. K then go back a few decades to Vietnam, when we were fighting 'for democracy' yet we were trying to FORCIBLY IMPOSE it upon a nation which, by popular sovereignty, had chosen communism (not exactly that but the people there really liked the ideas, and fatass America didn't exactly look like the good-guy). We continue to screw over our image, with stuff like the Anti-Ballistic missile system that we wanted in Poland(?) (Russia threatening to point nukes @ Europe, Europe becoming pissed @ us), and the general mud slung at the Iraq war.

Really, I'm proud to be an American. I live in fricking San Diego where the weather never changes and life is pretty good, despite the occasional bitching about housing. But I think that we as a nation should get out of the La-Z-boy and actually think about who we're voting for, what changes we want, and maybe how to make this a better place. And unless there is some mass mentality change, hell -- even Rome fell.

Yeah, unfortunely, the USA has one of the highest if not the highest, uh.... 'wasteful'-ness, per capita, follows its religion much more than most other developed countries, has many many more zealots, is much more prejudiced, and in short, USA at the moment has too many quite obvious problems.

No, it really doesn't. People may mark the "Very religious" tab on their surveys, but Americans are really not that religious. Most don't even read the Bible (or other holy scripture) or attend Church (or other place of worship). Americans pay lip service to their religion, they do not adhere to it.

And please, don't claim that Americans are "much more prejudiced" than other developed countries, or that it has more zealots.

Dude America is much more religious than other developed countries. Maybe if you live in goddamn Boston you don't feel it. but christian identity is a big part of AMERICANNESS.

Being more religious would imply reading the Bible, going to Church, following what the Bible says. Americans do not do this. They are not religious, they do not adhere to the religion, but they say they do. I live in one of the most conservative, "religious" areas of the US, so I know how these supposedly "religious" people behave. I guess what I'm trying to say is that if I'm out drinking at a bar with you on Saturday night and you end up having the premarital relations with a hot (gender or species you feel sexual attraction to), and I know for a fact that you haven't been to church in 7 years and you don't own a Bible, but you say in a survey that you consider yourself a very religious Southern Baptist, I know you're full of shit. Most Americans are full of shit.

But you see, that's what America's all about: Saying one thing while doing the other.
(OH GOD I AM A SOUTH PARK REPUBLICAN HOW DID THIS HAPPEN???)

I think the Americans are more negative about their country than the Europeans. Despite having its share of problems, there's no denying that America is still a really great country. Emphasizing some trivial thing, such as the fact that its inhabitants are more obese than those from other countries, would be very ignorant of its status as a First World country. (Maybe you should move to Sierra Leone for a few years.)

I think I have to agree with you here. While I've said some bad things myself, I really don't know if I could see myself living anywhere else. For instance, the obesity and religion problems are mainly problems with the South, though not neccessarily exclusively. I mean, there are still plenty of good things about the country. For instance, it's a melting pot of ethnicities and cultures, and you shouldn't ever run out of things to do here, either.