also why is it better than other countries I mean who decides that and what about in the fl constitoustion we must build a bullet train before 2010? Is america falling apart? Plz answer and no spam. (I live in florida and I am a girl but my avatar messed up.)
2007-03-25 09:57:20 · 9 answers · asked by Sofia L 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
America or the USA to be precise is not free by any stretch of the imagination...
Free to do what? Pay exhorbitant prices for everything? Free to be restricted in every thing by increasingly intrusive laws, rules, and regulations? Free to keep ones thoughts and opinions to themselves lest they offend someone? Free to be turned in to "cannon fodder" by a government with its own self serving ideas?
Free to work for slave wages? Free to be lowly paid servants of the wealthy?
Don't get me started...
2007-03-26 12:57:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good questions.
As a Canadian, I feel just as free as if I was in the U.S. Actually I feel more free because I know that most people around me don't have guns. I don't have to think that if I get in an argument with someone that they might pull a gun on me.
I think it's just an old way of thinking. The U.S. used to be a collection of British colonies, then there was the War of Independance which changed that situation a bit. I guess since then Americans have thought of themselves as free.
Of course the U.S. isn't better than other countries. Anyone can make a list of countries and rank them from best to worst, but using what criteria? You can't go around and objectively measure freedom or happiness.
What's that about a bullet train?
Is America falling apart? I don't really think so. No more than usual.
2007-03-25 10:10:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well when you think about it from the point of view of other countries, by far it can offer alot more opportunities for other people and it has one of the rivhest lands to make a living off of. Plus we cannot not deny the fact that the american army have saved the world from war and complete innilation many times so thats why most appreciate the country as a whole, on an individual aspect we all have our pros and cons regardless of geographical inclination, but we make do just as americans do also.
2007-03-25 10:12:11 · answer #3 · answered by kissaled 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
usa is ordinarily unfastened. I rigidity ordinarily, nicely possibly it rather is going to be fairly, inspite of the undeniable fact that it definitely isn't definitely unfastened. there's a spiritual dominance, yet that comes from the innovations on which the country replaced into based. Christianity led the way, and it nevertheless dominates immediately because of the fact (a million) the final public of the inhabitants falls interior of that faith and (2) custom. i think of usa is attempting to be greater unfastened regarding race, yet this takes time. it rather is not in basic terms the government it rather is the individuals of society who proceed to make race an argument. And sexuality, is growing to be much less unfastened. The gay-marriage debate definitely does not make you think of of "land of the unfastened", does it? that's ridiculous, yet because of the fact it particularly is a greater cutting-part situation/undertaking, then i'm particular that in basic terms as with race/segregation, it rather is going to take a little time to mellow out. I agree that some freedoms are not obtainable, yet for the main area we delight in multitudes of freedom that different international locations do not.
2016-10-19 21:52:28 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is America a free country? That's about as true as the final line in the pledge of allegiance - With liberty and justice for all. That's a crock, too.
2007-03-25 11:45:12 · answer #5 · answered by pugmo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"America is a free country." This is relatively speaking. There is no unlimited and unconditional freedom. People are free to possess guns but are not free to shoot at random. Most of people who are eager to rush to America not because of the "freedom" but because of economic opportunities.
American people are very much provincial in that they care mostly about themselves and seldom concern peoples in other countries, with the exception of American government whose concern of oil-rich countries is not without purpose.
When I first came to America, Texas to be exact, an old lady even asked me if I knew how to eat apple. Thanks for her effort to civilize me!! She has not heard of the place called Beijing! The more I get acquainted with Americans, the more I am impressed by their "understanding" of other cultures! Ameica is not falling apart thanks to the enlightened new immigrants.
2007-03-25 10:19:27 · answer #6 · answered by be expert 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The very fact that they can say it shows that it is a free country. Anyway, it's a matter of attitude.
And nothing's bad in considering your own country to be better than other ones. Why live then there, if it is not?
(I live in another one, though.)
2007-03-25 10:11:53 · answer #7 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You have the choice to see it as a free country and experience it that say, or not. Depends on how you choose to see it. Freedom is an inside job.
2007-03-25 10:03:46 · answer #8 · answered by stedyedy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because they are stupid
I have more freedom in Mexico
I can drink at the age of 12
hahaha but i dont!
I perfer mexico over america but im stuck here untill im 18
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2007-03-25 10:02:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋