Ahhh...Europe
know1
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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.
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.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
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hey, check out the irony of it.. Montenegro has the word negro in it... wow
In reality it doesn't represent all of Europe. Just like the actions of a few in America don't represent all Americans.
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
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.
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
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.
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
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.
nope.. only Scotland
ohhhh, and perhaps Enlightenedutopialand, which is near Botswana
exactly.
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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.
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.
-Enoch Powell
well done know1
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.
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.
you forgot 'obese' in your list
This has nothing to do with this thread but I was reading your sig - funny!
How do you pronounce "Worcestershire"?
What happened to the r, c, and e???
-Enoch Powell
-Paul Verlaine-
"With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion."
-Edgar Poe-
Whether we're tan and trim in Spain, or obese cowboys in America, or snobby sonsabitches in France.....
....we're human.
Europe does have problems with racism too. There is no denying it. And here it sometimes happen in sports games. But we are also moving in the right direction I think. As gabers said, there are morons everywhere.
And for the record, I do not condone either the demonization of americans in general, nor the "they are all crazy communists" view of europeans. Both terms are too general to be truly meaningful.
Peace
Dan
"Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty." - Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965
Why is that even important? Seriously, why is it important that most of you are white? Do you have to be white to be part of a certain culture? To understand certain traditions?
Not all people are afraid of the 'brown man', my friend.
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