What You Don’t Know About Americans
While I was in Idaho my friend Sheryl and I had a chance to watch some videos that I had sent to her. They were Discovery Channel videos called “Thomas Friedman Reporting” with various topics like “Does Europe Hate Us?”, “Straddling the Fence”, etc., and they were done with the intent to show Americans just what other countries think of us. Tom Friedman isn’t my only source when it comes to this topic, but in watching the shows it really hit me that there is a big misconception about what ‘normal’ Americans are really like.
I think one of the first things I would explain is that what you see on TV shows, our news, and of course, of our politicians, isn’t what you would see should you pay a visit to the vast majority of the United States.
I am not a Bush supporter though, so I might be prejudiced on that count. In fact, if anyone asks me if I am a Republican or a Democrat, and always answer now that I am an American. I am greatly disgusted and dismayed with both parties, and if I have a leaning, it is towards anyone that can set us back on course to rebuild our country to its former self.
Within my social circles (the many, the proud, the middle class) we do not sit around trying to figure out how to dominate other countries or cultures. If anything, we embrace them and want to know more about them. We are all completely dismayed by the 9/11 attack, but it didn’t make us afraid to go on with our lives. We are just more cautious and aware, which I personally think is a good thing.
As I ponder this subject, it seems that no matter what I would say, it probably has been said before. So, I will leave it to my readers to answer this question:
What do you think it is like to live in the United States? What do you believe about the average American? Please keep your comments clean and as polite as possible.
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I think that people are people no matter where they are born. They love, they cry, they have joy, and anger. In the United States comes some freedoms that other countries don’t have, such as a guaranteed free education, to belong to whatever religious group they want to, the freedom to criticize the government, and the ability to change the government through voting.
I think to live in the United States for 70% of the population is to have clean water and not think twice about it. To go to the grocery store and have food available from everywhere but your own local farms. And to have more than enough clothes that the Red Cross and Salvation Army’s are bogged down with them, yet don’t have enough money to help with other needs.
I don’t believe that the average American wants to go to war anywhere, or take over any country or culture. The most want to live and let live. I think to live in the US is a blessing that most of us are blinded too, and that we take for granted.
Sorry I rambled, that’s just how I feel.
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I don’t think you rambled at all! I feel the same way you do. Thanks for leaving a comment.