America

[PolymerSkywalker]

Basically, to some people if you ever point out anything America does well, they see it as a microaggression. I have lived all over the world and every country I have ever lived in did some things really well.

I love Germany for example. They can get a bad rep, but I love the people, the food, their countryside, and their incredible engineering skills. They had a really dark time in the 1940s, but I find their country and people delightful today.

 

[Buzz Rules]

Can't they just be American.

Everyone who has citizenship is viewed as and called an American. Some people prefer to be called a sub category, others just American in general. It's the specific area's (where they live) culture that determines what people are comfortable with in the end. We view each other as equals, period.

 

[Buzz Rules]

Yes we know. You're amazing and perfect and the rest of the world sucks.

Does the USA pavilion say that? Does the Canadian pavilion imply that?

 

[bcwife76]

I love Canada, what a beautiful country. I was just in Surrey BC a few weeks back doing some testing in a high tech electrical lab. I personally didn't care for the rampant drug use in the open on the streets, but I guess all countries have that in some of their cities. Had an incredible meal in a Greek restaurant there! I had a great time and would love to come back and visit some more when my schedule allows it.

I've lived in Surrey for nearly 12 years now, we are close to the Surrey/Langley border. Which neighborhood did you see "open drug use?" Whalley? Newton? Guilford? Fleetwood? Genuinely curious as I have never seen it here but have of course seen it in the downtown core of Vancouver which is becoming worse and worse with every passing minute.

 

[PolymerSkywalker]

I was staying in New Westminster as it was only about 20 minutes away from the lab I was working at. That is the first time I have ever seen a crack pipe being used in the open on a park bench. But maybe I am just sheltered in a small town in a flyover state.

 

[Buzz Rules]

18 pages and still going. Wow.

 

[CdnCarrie]

Does the USA pavilion say that? Does the Canadian pavilion imply that?

I saw it in San Francisco.

 

[CdnCarrie]

Does the USA pavilion say that? Does the Canadian pavilion imply that?

Um no several posters here have. Why are you talking about Epcot for?

 

[PolymerSkywalker]

No doubt San Fran was an incredibly city in years past, but has badly eroded in recent years. Really sad what has happened to that once great American city.

 

[ford family]

Basically, to some people if you ever point out anything America does well, they see it as a microaggression. I have lived all over the world and every country I have ever lived in did some things really well.

I love Germany for example. They can get a bad rep, but I love the people, the food, their countryside, and their incredible engineering skills. They had a really rough patch in the 1940s, but I find their country and people delightful today.

The Holocaust was "a really rough patch"?
Unbelievable!

ford family

 

[Buzz Rules]

I saw it in San Francisco.

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Um no several posters here have. Why are you talking about Epcot for?

Because you are implying that is the general sentiment and viewpoint of Americans.

 

[LuvOrlando]

18 pages and still going. Wow.

"America bad, other places good" is a very popular theme

 

[Pea-n-Me]

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

[PolymerSkywalker]

The Holocaust was "a really rough patch"?
Unbelievable!

ford family

Not meant in that way at all. Just didn't want to be too degrading to a country that went though one of worst events in human history. It was one of the most heartbreaking and terrible things in the last 200 years on planet earth, there is no denying that. My family fought in that war by the way, on the side that won. Your welcome!

 

[Moliphino]

Not meant in that way at all. Just didn't want to be too degrading to a country that went though one of worst events in human history. It was one of the most heartbreaking and terrible things in the last 200 years on planet earth, there is no denying that. My family fought in that war by the way, on the side that won. Your welcome!

Germans aren't afraid to confront that part of their history, there's no need to dance around it.

 

[Buzz Rules]

The Holocaust was "a really rough patch"?
Unbelievable!

ford family

I'm half Jewish. I hold Hitler and the Nazis responsible, no one else. Modern Germany holds no blame.

 

[PolymerSkywalker]

Americans certainly have our own atrocities as well, so who are we to throw stones.

 

[White Cat]

The term African-American has been, rightly or wrongly, meant to identify persons of color. Someone upthread pointed to a definition and to how the term is meant to be applied.

To deliberately and arrogantly use the term to refer to white people from Africa, especially when trying to prove that "they're not all Black" is further insult to the meaning behind the term, much like "all lives matter" pushes the idea that for centuries Black lives didn't matter, at least in the same way.

Why not call your friend (I'm assuming she's white) South African-American? Africa is made up of many countries.

What if the friend from South Africa is black, is it then ok for her to be called African American? Either way she is an African American.

And all lives do matter, don t they?

Where the black live matter corporation messed up is in that they should have called it Black Lives also Matter

 

[porschegrl]

Basically, to some people if you ever point out anything America does well, they see it as a microaggression.

Likewise, some people seem unable to abide the notion that there are things that America could improve upon.

 

[White Cat]

No doubt San Fran was an incredibly city in years past, but has badly eroded in recent years. Really sad what has happened to that once great American city.

Along with Detroit, Baltimore, Seattle, Chicago and now even New York City.