‘I remember being at some conference as a young military wife in Germany. I’d been there about 2 3/4 years and I was tired of Europe — how dark it was, how controlled and regimented everything was, how closed up and dead everything was’
If I said that about the US, I would be arrogant Eurotrash or a pompous-ass Limey. How the hell can you denigrate an entire continent?. Sorry, but you come across as the worst type of ignorant American abroad. Not enough McD’s and Wendy’s for you?. Silly Euros, imgaine having the audacity to have their own (superior and sophisicated) culture.
Dead?. Not to me, hun. I could never get tired of Paris, Rome, Berlin, Barcelona, Lisbon, Budapest, Milan. Europe is a continent of history, culture, spectacular scenery.
’ not to mention their freaking scowly unfriendly faces.’
Yeah, you equally sound like you were a barrel of joy yourself. Funny, on my travels, I find most Germans and Europeans to be friendly.
‘What we have in the US — our freedom, is something very unique and precious.’
Horses*it.
Again, that is the very type of smallminded arrogance that stereotypes Americans. ‘Only’ America and Americans are truly free. And the rest of the world is a hellhole with unfriendly jealous people.
Yep. Uh-huh. Whatever.
Thank god many Americans are not as ignorant, arrogant and smallminded as you.
If I said that about the US, I would be arrogant Eurotrash or a pompous-ass Limey. How the hell can you denigrate an entire continent?. Sorry, but you come across as the worst type of ignorant American abroad. Not enough McD’s and Wendy’s for you?. Silly Euros, imgaine having the audacity to have their own (superior and sophisicated) culture.
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You can have your culture if you prefer it. I’ll take mine. I could have cared less about fast food places in Europe. You had plenty of those over there, btw, and you don’t fool me — Europeans love McDonalds every bit as much we do. You just aren’t allowed to have as many of them ...probably something or someone controlling that whole issue as well.
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Dead?. Not to me, hun. I could never get tired of Paris, Rome, Berlin, Barcelona, Lisbon, Budapest, Milan. Europe is a continent of history, culture, spectacular scenery.
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It sure is — but at times it’s also very dark and the sun is NEVER out, at least 3/4 of the year. I had to go on anti depressants in that place from lack of sunshine.
’ not to mention their freaking scowly unfriendly faces.’
Yeah, you equally sound like you were a barrel of joy yourself. Funny, on my travels, I find most Germans and Europeans to be friendly.
‘What we have in the US — our freedom, is something very unique and precious.’
Horses*it.
Again, that is the very type of smallminded arrogance that stereotypes Americans. ‘Only’ America and Americans are truly free. And the rest of the world is a hellhole with unfriendly jealous people.
Yep. Uh-huh. Whatever.
Thank god many Americans are not as ignorant, arrogant and smallminded as you.
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Oh, shut up. I’ll tell you one story out of many that APPALLED me. My german neighbor felt she was “too old” to go back to school and had to just be satisfied with a low-wage position at a bank — at the age of 26!! She knew her opportunity to do that was OVER — at 26. What the hell is that? You can have your socialist crap — I have FREEDOM here, to be anything I want, and I can do it after the age of 30, as well. You take a 12 year old and tell them they can’t go to university because, well, they just aren’t “college material.” I find that quite limiting and small minded if you ask me.
Germans DO NOT smile. I’m sorry, they do not. It takes getting to know them for about 5 years before they will smile. I lived there 6 years and i know them too well. They never seemed like happy people to me ... until they were drinking beer, however.
You can crow all you want. You do NOT have the same freedoms we enjoy here — you are told what to do in so many areas I don’t think you even realize it. If that’s how you want to live, then live that way ...doesn’t make me miss MY country any less.