Ahhh...Europe

know1
know1 Posts: 6,801
edited August 2007 in A Moving Train
Too bad America can't be as enlightened and cultured as those high class Europeans....

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/soccer/08/07/beasley.taunts.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

To view this board, you'd think America has cornered the market on racism, stupidity, backwardness, intolerance, etc., but when you open your eyes, you see that other places are just as bad.
The only people we should try to get even with...
...are those who've helped us.

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  • Bu2
    Bu2 Posts: 1,693
    That is just sad.
    Feels Good Inc.
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    since when did Montenegro represent all of Europe?


    hey, check out the irony of it.. Montenegro has the word negro in it... wow
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    dunkman wrote:
    since when did Montenegro represent all of Europe?

    In reality it doesn't represent all of Europe. Just like the actions of a few in America don't represent all Americans.
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    know1 wrote:
    To view this board, you'd think America has cornered the market on racism, stupidity, backwardness, intolerance, etc., but when you open your eyes, you see that other places are just as bad.

    and to oppose that view you post an article about a soccer player getting racially abused at a soccer match.... wow, you've convinced me that america doesnt have the issues you've mentioned... they must not exist cos in Europe some fascist fuckheads made monkey noises to a football player!!!


    :rolleyes:
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    dunkman wrote:
    and to oppose that view you post an article about a soccer player getting racially abused at a soccer match.... wow, you've convinced me that america doesnt have the issues you've mentioned... they must not exist cos in Europe some fascist fuckheads made monkey noises to a football player!!!


    :rolleyes:

    I'm not opposing that view, just expanding it to show that the same ignorant stuff by a few morons happens everywhere - not JUST in America.
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    know1 wrote:
    In reality it doesn't represent all of Europe. Just like the actions of a few in America don't represent all Americans.

    Montenegro is a fairly backward racist country... hardly represents Europe..

    just as Alabama isnt a representative of all of America...
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    dunkman wrote:
    Montenegro is a fairly backward racist country... hardly represents Europe..

    just as Alabama isnt a representative of all of America...

    Yeah, yeah - the rest of Europe is an enlightened eutopia, I'm sure.
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    know1 wrote:
    I'm not opposing that view, just expanding it to show that the same ignorant stuff by a few morons happens everywhere - not JUST in America.

    there are morons everywhere, dont think any Europeans on here would ever deny that... i think the only difference is our morons dont shoot each other all the time.
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    know1 wrote:
    Yeah, yeah - the rest of Europe is an enlightened eutopia, I'm sure.


    nope.. only Scotland

    ohhhh, and perhaps Enlightenedutopialand, which is near Botswana
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • PaperPlates
    PaperPlates Posts: 1,745
    know1 wrote:
    the actions of a few in America don't represent all Americans.

    exactly.
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  • polaris
    polaris Posts: 3,527
    as progressive as europe is in many aspects ... it definitely has an ugly side that is in most countries ... and that is racism ...
  • even flow?
    even flow? Posts: 8,066
    "look at that monkey run" - Howard Cosell ;)
    You've changed your place in this world!
  • Hitch-Hiker
    Hitch-Hiker Posts: 2,873
    know1 wrote:
    Too bad America can't be as enlightened and cultured as those high class Europeans....

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/soccer/08/07/beasley.taunts.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

    To view this board, you'd think America has cornered the market on racism, stupidity, backwardness, intolerance, etc., but when you open your eyes, you see that other places are just as bad.
    And when has it been said in recent times that America is or isn't more racist than the rest of the world?
    You seem to be under the impression that we see Americans as a whole as unenlightened hicks.
    Some may be, but like I said, and others have too - it's the same everywhere.
    I'll Ride The Wave Where It Takes Me
  • CorporateWhore
    CorporateWhore Posts: 1,890
    Nah, Europeans definitely do stereotype Americans. You think we're all neo-nazi fascist war monger cowboys.

    Personally, I think of America as a European nation in many respects. It has far more in common with Europe's political and cultural traditions than the rest of the world. Plus most of us are white.

    Well, I suppose Europe isn't mostly white anymore right? Heh heh. But they want that so it's okay. I suppose Europeans would sound racist if they didn't want to allow massive immigration from Africa and the Middle East.
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  • Hitch-Hiker
    Hitch-Hiker Posts: 2,873
    CorporateWhore wrote:
    Nah, Europeans definitely do stereotype Americans. You think we're all neo-nazi fascist war monger cowboys.
    We really dont. It may be how we see your government, but not the people. I'd liek to know what you base that on.
    I'll Ride The Wave Where It Takes Me
  • jlew24asu
    jlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    know1 wrote:
    In reality it doesn't represent all of Europe. Just like the actions of a few in America don't represent all Americans.

    well done know1
  • meme
    meme Posts: 4,695
    dunkman wrote:
    Montenegro is a fairly backward racist country... hardly represents Europe..

    just as Alabama isnt a representative of all of America...

    I know for sure these things are painfully common in France and Italy.
    I would say actually that political correctness, vilified as it is by many , has done a pretty good job of getting rid of these overt, mainstream forms of racism in the United States.

    Of course, I'd still much rather be chronically sick in France and Italy than the US.
    ... and the will to show I will always be better than before.
  • meme
    meme Posts: 4,695
    Hitch-Hiker wrote:
    We really dont. It may be how we see your government, but not the people. I'd liek to know what you base that on.

    Everyone has stereotypes. The Italians and many Europeans I know stereotype the Americans as ignorant and naive, the Americans stereotype the Italians as pizza eaters and lazy mandolin players. Once we recognize the stereotypes for what they are we can move on to try and understand each other.
    ... and the will to show I will always be better than before.
  • gabers
    gabers Posts: 2,787
    Yes, there are morons everywhere, in every country. They are cab drivers, businessmen, students, world leaders, and everything in between. I do find it ironic that this kind of nonsense goes on in Europe and not in the U.S. There's definitely a preconception with many Europeans that our country is full of dumbfucks. Maybe it's because of our president. But it's not just eastern Europe. A few years back groups of soccer fans were doing this crap in Spain and Italy. I'm sure you can find the interview with Thierry Henry discussing this.
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    CorporateWhore wrote:
    Nah, Europeans definitely do stereotype Americans. You think we're all neo-nazi fascist war monger cowboys.

    you forgot 'obese' in your list
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.

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