Text 35429, 80 rader
Skriven 2006-07-31 19:39:14 av Björn Forsström (2:203/614.61)
  Kommentar till text 35282 av Jeff Smith (1:14/0)
Ärende: Israel
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 JS>>>      They can claim anything that they choose. It is up to you to
 JS>>> be smart enough to know when they are talking out their other somewhat
 JS>>> puckered orafice. I can claim to speak for any group or country. That
 JS>>> sure a heck don't make it so. If you think I do I also have some
 JS>>> swampland for sale. <g>

 BF>> Of course you have a point but.....

 JS>      There HAS to be a "but" with you doesn't there?

Of course, otherweise you would be 100% right and we can't allow that, now
can we......

 BF>> ....the other day I happend to see an American program about dog shows
 BF>> and they are so damn extreme like anything we see from America. Those who
 BF>> makes motorcycles, Monster Garage, you name it, nothing is done in a
 BF>> normal way and then we meet the same extremism here. I'm the best, I'm
 BF>> the biggest, I'm the loudest,


 JS>      While I can't speak for how other Americans may choose to feel. I
 JS> will say that the average American attitude does contain a certain amount
 JS> of 'We are the best'. That is not a bad thing.

That depends on how it's used.

 JS> This says to me that we
 JS> will try to be the best at what we choose to be. Which often times also
 JS> involves being the biggest and the loudest. That does not prevent you
 JS> and/or your countrymen and women from feeling the same way about
 JS> yourselves.

Perhaps that's our problem but we're tought that we aren't.

 JS> The area where I think it may cause problems is when that
 JS> attitude is taken to extremes.

As it's done here.

 JS> As in we are the best and you are no better
 JS> than naval lint and should no longer exist. Which is something I do not
 JS> see in basic American attitude.

You must have seen that Roy whish that Ward was dead?

 JS> I think that the position that America
 JS> occupies in the global picture there is bound to be a certain amount of
 JS> errogance. But I do not see that errogance in any unexpected amount or
 JS> that it is causing any problems.

Don't you think it's very arrogant how Roy, Frank and Dan are talking shit
about
those they don't like? And how Shannon is treating me?

 JS> Except for those that may have already
 JS> decided that Americans are bad and that most anything about the American
 JS> way somehow contributes to that feeling of Americans being bad.

With all the above you keep bringing it onto yourself.

 BF>>  *uck the rest so what the heck shall
 BF>> we think and then people like you comes in the background but when you
 BF>> finally speak up you make (at least me) wonder, why are the otheres so
 BF>> loud? What's their problem? And you don't really see any of that bulying
 BF>> manners from someone outside of the US unless we're provoked.

 JS>     That is because that is what you CHOOSE to think. As I have already
 JS> stated. Try treating people based on how THEY act and not based on some
 JS> preconceived notion regarding what country they may come from. I may think
 JS> that one of your countrymen is an ass. But that doesn't mean that I will
 JS> apply that opinion to you until such a time as YOU show me that you
 JS> deserve it.

As I hope you have seen by now I treat those as you say and not say it's
typical
American.

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