Why Do You Love Your Country?

Folks from the major industrialized nations don't want to be American any more than Americans want to be them.

There is no advantage for them to become American - unless they make a lot of money and want to pay a lot lower taxes as some are doing.


It's lots of folks from developing countries and countries that have repressive governments want to become American - actually anything to get out of the horrible situation they are in.

If they're coming to America they feel they've hit the jackpot out of many much better possible situations verses the one they're in that they want to get out of.

The folks in developing countries do love their place of birth but many op to leave if they can for a better life.



TL

Really dude? highhopes didn't help much, but you really want to take this thread there? The whole pissin' contest thing? And make the rest of us Americans look bad?

The only reason you have the freedoms that you have is because of the so-called...American experiment.

:rolleyes:

C'mon now. Let's be realistic. And accurate. Before spouting off about how thankful the Brits and the rest of the world should be for us, maybe you should open a history book. Read up on things like the Magna Carta of 1215. Read up on the actual philosophical influences of our Constitution from the likes of people from the U.K. like Adam Smith (a moral philosopher, not an economist as most label him), Hume, Locke, etc.

You know, that whole Age of Enlightenment thing that laid the foundation for our way of life.

Were it not for those steps, the umm, greatest force for good, as you state, a force that has also dropped more bombs on people than anyone in the last 50 years as well as overthrown several elected governments of foreign countries with our CIA and installed some real despots, etc., wouldn't exist.

Don't be arrogant. The philosophies that shaped the founding of our country were born out of blood and sacrifice of folks from across the pond who went through much risk and suffering to put forth their ideas of freedom as a foundation for our country to build upon. Nobody over here had to risk being cut into four pieces while still alive for speaking out against the government. You and I have it easy.

And, as I am sure any Brit will tell you, the freedoms they have over there are due to them, not us. Due to them engaging in centuries long battles to wrest control from the monarchy in an effort to secure more self-government and individual freedoms.

Let's make sure we give credit where credit is due as well as not taking undue credit where it is not deserved. Don't forget that our country was founded by and our Constitution written by Englishmen.

[/setting the record straight for my friends across the pond]

That being said, could I live in England? Hell no.

They eat weird food like blood pudding, have an incessant need to add u's to words where it is completely unnecessary, display a strange compulsion to replace z's with s', drive on the wrong side of the road, think a closet is where you go to use a toilet instead of where you hang your clothes, have never figured out how to properly pronounce and spell the word 'aluminum', think that to 'knock someone up' refers to something other than getting a girl pregnant - and, quite frankly, it is amazing that anyone over there gets pregnant as they think having sex is to 'slap and tickle' which is just foreplay for us Yankees and that 'blow me' is a reaction of surprise instead of a request you make of a hooker - and think that soccer is a real sport while not understanding what the game of football really is. :p

Well at least Kim we can be grateful we live in a sort of free country,( USA and UK) other people are not so fortunate, however, when you are sort of free like we are we tend to criticize as well as adore more than those in a restricted country.

Things to be ashamed of in the UK? First country to adopt concentration camps in the Boar war....not very nice, women children dying etc.
They ruled the countries they vanquished with an iron rod, ( this made Britain Great) force was the name of the game, just like the Roman empire.

Lots of good things just like America, free to do as one pleases within the law of course.

If Jesus was alive on the earth as a man, I still don`t think he would vote for any politician / or country...what was his saying, my father`s Kingdom is no part of this world. ( I threw that in cause I know you go to church Kim...hmm, that just came to me from Sunday school LOL!

If I was to go the same distance south Thom, this is what I would see...



Sames goes for the same distance west, north and east.

However, if I was go in a roughly nor'westerly direction I might see this...



Glastonbury Tor and the Vale of Avalon (about 2 hours drive away from here at 75-80mph).