Europe vs. the USA

Thats the same way I look at stuff like this. I take it as a compliment.

 

Good good That's the only reasonable way to look at it too

 

Heh its funny because it causes even more hatred.

 

I'd say it's a really stupid thing to argue over even A man is himself, not his country or his family

I'm danish and my grandpa was a freedom fighter...

That doesn't mean that I automaticly become a viking and a hero... If I lived in the best country in the world and came from a great family, there could still be a poor hungry boy from niger that was "better" than me, after all how do we know? That's what so stupid about this thing

I admit I've bashed the US a bit too cause of posts like the original one here, but I figured, meh what's the use

 

Dont make me laugh. Russians were rolling into Berlin on Jeeps and US tanks. Their contribution to WWII was great, but hardly a bigger part. Considering the US was the overwhelming power that took on Japan. Maybe you should argue that Russia played the biggest part in HALF the war? Even that is debatable...

Oh yeah, lets not forget that the USSR helped START the war.

isnt neutral just a way of saying they were once pro-nazi but scared of britain? Dont worry, i have an irish heritage, but i wouldnt be proud of being neutral.

 

there are anti US posts on this forum too...this hate thread just happened to be started by an american. Dont worry, in a nation of 300 millino you'll find some idiots. We've found quite a few european idiots too.

 

Even if this was just a joke, shut up.

If you want to argue why we're better, at least base it on our ideals. Not on some made up shit like this.

Are american people better than european people? naw. We're all about equally stupid, smart, or whatever. We're just more fortunate

 

ahh and it continues.

 

haha, yeah But that's just the way it is

 

Rep of Ireland was neutral since it's foundation in 1921.

 

yeah lol

 

and switzerland has been neutral longer. Doesn't deny the fact that both countries were sympathetic to the nazi cause and their neutrality only aided the nazi's...

p.s. i know your point wasnt to glorify ireland's neutrality. However, many US states have very different policies too, a fact which europeans forget(or dont know?). It might not be that unrealistic to say that different US states are more different than some countries... People talk about America as if we're one country with all the same mind. We're 300 million people spread throughout the 3rd largest country in the world. We arent the same in all our beliefs.

 

The Dutch..?

 

This is possible, but in the 1940's communication wasn't what it is now. People in Ireland didn't have a clue about the full extent of what the Nazi regime were at. All their wierd sick experiments, the extermination of millions of Jewish and Roma people etc etc didn't come out until after the war. To the average Irish person as far as they were concerned the Brits probably were percieved as more evil because of the 800 year struggle against them and they fact that they still occupied part of the country.
As for the Swiss they did better out of WW2 than any country in Europe.

 

The Jerry Springer show contradicts your theory! Case closed!

 

Really wondering why all the US bashing has increased so heavily in recent years. Can't be just about GWB. Guess there are some fundamental differences in attitute. I had recently read an article with the Titel "Americans are from Mars - Europeans from Venus" alluding to the popular book on the differences between men and women. When I thought about it I thoght: Hey it's true: Americans seem to have an attitude more similar to male (say what you think - do what you say, use violence firt, think later) while Europeans seem to be more female (let's talk first - make love not war

Rich

 

I think cracks started in our friendship once the berlin wall came down and there was no 'real need' for the US to be in europe anymore or really for europe to 'follow' the US.

As for the venus/mars thing..interesting idea. Although, military might is needed with diplomacy. Or else you get what happened in kosovo. European inaction and the death of countless people... I guess we threaten force because, realistically, we can. Europe's military power is very limited, so any threat is pretty vain. I guess the tides have turned, the US used to be the one pushing for diplomacy in the 19th century when we were 'weaker' militarily. The pendulum has just swung the other way. Either way, we need to temper european passivity and europe needs to temper our aggressiveness to find the right balance.

 

yeahh pretty much. The mood here is really icky...

 

Very bad thread,
very bad idiot.!

Sorry, matey.!

 

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