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I find this quite a relief. You see, like Arabs and Muslims, I think a lot of press coverage of Americans is very biased, and displays the worst traits of the extremists amongst them.

Americans aren't a bunch of redneck, faggot hating, Christian fundie, ignorant cowboy fuckwads, and I think more people in other countries should realise this.



stereotypes are stereotypes.

americans have the john wayne look and feel applied. frenchmen are snobby and cowardly gigglers. the japanese are staunchily suicidal with an inferiority complex. aussies hunt crocidles with their pocket knives. the irish are drunk, the british strain tea through busted teeth. etc, etc.

bring those up to any respective countrymen, and they'll quickly debate your morals for attacking their homeland... while slowly agreeing to the conceptions of the other countries. (except you guys, of course...)

people want to apply stereotypes to countries (or people) simply because they can. it makes things quicker and easier, neatly wrapping up any questionable loose ends. and because they naturally focus on only the negative, it helps raise yourself up above the rest.

its a school-grounds pissing contest, and one that wont end anytime soon.

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I received Michael Moore's Dude Where's My Country? for Christmas, and he seemed to join the America-bashing club: I thought he was being very unfair in the beginning for treating Americans as dumb xenophobes the majority of whom couldn't say where Great Britain was on a world map.



michael moore is justa guy. i dont understand why people get so worked up about what he does -- he's a political satirist. its his job to make silly comments about people who can do more than he can. he's not out to sabbotage the bush administration any more than he was out to sabbotage the clinton administration (and he lambasted both). if he targets one more than the other, its simply cuz it gets him more airtime.

despite his "holier than thou" facade, he's agenda-filled like everyone else on the planet. he's very smart and has really well backed resources, plus he's great at bringing home the apparent "everymans" view (at least the ones people want to hear), but... thats it.

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Despite the attempts to turn the word into some slur and people who hold these beleifs as some lunatic fringe. I'm just amazed that this thread hasn't degenerated into a Moore-bash fest as of yet.



which normally holds until someone spreads around the bait.

like that.

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