I just got back from St. Petersburg. A girl told me that the most popular sports in the world were football (soccer) and hating Americans. She didn't agree with the critique but she said Americans were perceived as imbeciles. It's not as if other countries are populated exclusively by engineers and Ph.Ds. She also said Americans were obsessed with consumerism. I agreed but said I had seen the same dynamic in China, the Phillipines, Argentina, the UK and just about anywhere else I had been. She also said that America meddles to much in other countries affairs. I agreed, but stated that it was ironic hearing that criticism in the former U.S.S.R. Further, we had not done it more nefariously than, say, Iran (Hezbollah), Saudi Arabia, and dozens of other countries.
What do you think? Why is it so popular to hate America?
2006-11-13
11:32:03
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Jesus Jones
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