Nice bunch of ass clowns Opposite of America are.
Notice, like, every country does 'better' - context is meaningless to them - than America in their view.
It's so ridiculous it's gotta be run by smart ass kids.
At least I hope it is.
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Alas, anti-Americanism is a disease. A sickness that infects many Canadians too I'm afraid. I wish it didn't but it does.
Canadians are probably worse than other countries.
We should know better and have a more nuanced view of the United States but we don't. Of course, we get all huffy when we perceive Americans of not understanding our branch plant butts.
But it sure won't stop us from heading for the borders though come every holiday or in the summer time.
'Damn Yankees! When are we going to Disney, honey?'
I digress.
Anti-Americanism, in my view, is ignorant as it is dangerous.
"Not only does anti-Americanism make rational discussion impossible, it threatens the idea of a community of interests between Europe and America. Indeed, it threatens the idea of the West itself. According to the most developed views of anti-Americanism, there is no community of interests between the two sides of the Atlantic because America is a different and alien place. … [P]roponents invest differences that exist between Europe and America with a level of significance all out of proportion with their real weight. True, Europeans spend more on the welfare state than do Americans, and Europeans have eliminated capital punishment while many American states still employ it. But to listen to the way in which these facts are discussed, one would think that they add up to different civilizations. This kind of analysis goes so far as to place in question even the commonality of democracy. Since democracy is now unquestionably regarded as a good thing—never mind, of course, that such an attachment to democracy arguably constitutes the most fundamental instance of Americanization—America cannot be a real democracy. And so it is said that American capitalism makes a mockery of the idea of equality, or that low rates of voting participation disqualify America from being in the camp of democratic states."
Notice, like, every country does 'better' - context is meaningless to them - than America in their view.
It's so ridiculous it's gotta be run by smart ass kids.
At least I hope it is.
***
Alas, anti-Americanism is a disease. A sickness that infects many Canadians too I'm afraid. I wish it didn't but it does.
Canadians are probably worse than other countries.
We should know better and have a more nuanced view of the United States but we don't. Of course, we get all huffy when we perceive Americans of not understanding our branch plant butts.
But it sure won't stop us from heading for the borders though come every holiday or in the summer time.
'Damn Yankees! When are we going to Disney, honey?'
I digress.
Anti-Americanism, in my view, is ignorant as it is dangerous.
"Not only does anti-Americanism make rational discussion impossible, it threatens the idea of a community of interests between Europe and America. Indeed, it threatens the idea of the West itself. According to the most developed views of anti-Americanism, there is no community of interests between the two sides of the Atlantic because America is a different and alien place. … [P]roponents invest differences that exist between Europe and America with a level of significance all out of proportion with their real weight. True, Europeans spend more on the welfare state than do Americans, and Europeans have eliminated capital punishment while many American states still employ it. But to listen to the way in which these facts are discussed, one would think that they add up to different civilizations. This kind of analysis goes so far as to place in question even the commonality of democracy. Since democracy is now unquestionably regarded as a good thing—never mind, of course, that such an attachment to democracy arguably constitutes the most fundamental instance of Americanization—America cannot be a real democracy. And so it is said that American capitalism makes a mockery of the idea of equality, or that low rates of voting participation disqualify America from being in the camp of democratic states."
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