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Originally posted by Ronn_Bman:
I know you may feel the "America the Beautiful, the Brave, and the Generous" is a myth, but not completely so. Even at that, American's as a whole don't believe we are the greatest and everyone else should bow before US in gratitude. In this forum American's, who in everyday life, complain about what is wrong with America defend her against, what they think is, a verbal attack. Whether it's intended that way or not, we get defensive. The slight admissions of generousity or helpfulness from the US are completely overpowered by the "America complaints". We do open our eyes and look at things, but when people want to shove those things down our throat - we choke on them!
Yes, I completely understand that. When an opposite position is taken to what we believe in, our original stance usually hardens, and we end up overstating our case to defend ourselves from what we perceive as an attack. Been there..... [img]smile.gif[/img]