But Bob my point is that Carter in no way launched any war in Afghanistan - the Soviets invaded and Carter was out of office by the time the US did anything about it. About the only thing he did do was publicly condemn the invasion and order a US boycott of the Moscow Olympics
What about McKinley and the Spanish American War? the big Mic was A republican. What about all of Eisenhower’s petty invasions of small Latin American Countries. I would have to say both sides in the US tend to start wars.
Honestly I’d love to but I don’t really have the money. My dad just got back from visiting relatives in england and ireland and now I’m jealous. Which is what spurred my interest in all this.
Well one day you will have the money and then the world is your edible crustacean.
To get back to the original post, a few years ago I was in HMV in Boston and I got talking to a young man (he was about 17) in the Manga DVD section who couldn’t believe that I was English. He told me that the typical American perception is that half of us are 1970s punk-rockers with mohawk hair and safety-pins through our noses, and the other half are lords and ladies who wear bowler hats all day and drink tea at 3pm. He also had no idea that US ‘culture’ had invaded this island so much. He was genuinely amazed that we watch The Simpsons and have branches of Dunkin’ Donuts. But what really freaked him out was that I was dressed (in his words) ‘like a normal person’. He was obviously expecting the Pearly Queen or something.
So much of our TV is imported from the US, we forget that the window is only tinted one way for most people. Not that Friends represents the life of the typical American, but it’s gotta be closer than the Fawlty Towers (et al)exports that influence US stereotypes of the English.
Imagine being from texas, living your entire childhood there, and seeing Mexicans as 5’5’’ laborers who like accordions and then going to your first philosophy class in college and meeting a dude from Mexico City who’s 6’0 and plays in a Goth band. And then going to parties of Rich latin kids and seeing how similar/different we are. And then going to Mexico several times and seeing how just complex the culture is. Prejudices are funny
Yeah, prejudices are funny, both peculiar and ha ha. The French think we Brits are uptight or football hooligans and we think they all wear onions around their necks and ride bicycles. They are more right than us.
Actually, I did once see a guy in France dressed exactly like the cliche - beret, blue and white striped jumper, baguette in his bicycle basket. Turns out he was English.
For the record, to anyone who hasn’t been to Rome, they do all ride around on mopeds saying ‘ciao’. Just because something is a stereotype, doesn’t mean it isn’t true.
see im not sure what exactly every american thinks of other countries but i knew europe was influenced by america i just cant imagine it being that much. one of the other stereotypes is that europeans hate americans but rightly so because americans are douche bags. unless youre the stereotypical southern redneck than you hate america and are ingrateful because we died to save you. which i think is incredibly funny. the idea of taking a random group of people and saying they died for whoever is currently annoying you and somehow taking their glory. when i die its going to be for the worms not you damned humans.
Actually proof of Hitler’s supreme fighting ability lies in his defeat of such mighty foes as the horseback riding Poles and the “They’ll NEVER go around this line” French
hitler was no fighter… his generals were, look at Rommel and such… those guys knew a thing or two about tactics…
that’s where it all went wrong, too, hitler went mad with power and started losing grip… stopped listening to his advisors…
Italians are oversexed