07-04-2002, 04:42 AM | #11 | |
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Ladywendy that was an awesome post. A good read and a wonderful reminder to your fantastic country. KT Ong, nothing wrong with a healthy bit of patriotism. When an American is patriotic, they are, as Wendy highlighted, flying a flag of unity due to the mutlitude of different peoples within. |
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07-04-2002, 04:54 AM | #12 | |
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07-04-2002, 04:55 AM | #13 | |
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It's like some ass tearing your character apart on your birthday. It's their collective birthday. You know you didn't have to reply. Not replying would have been better than calling patriotic Americans around the fourth of July possessors of big egos. Besides o' sour grapes trader, as an Australian, it comes across to me as presenting facts. What is wrong with the truth? What is offensive about those statements? Most prosperous in the history of the world? Name another. Rome? Was never as rich as America is now. It just sounds like you're a bitter and envious inhabitant of an insignificant couple of islands with only 3 million people, a heap of sheep and a emmigration problem when you write stuff like that. As I demonstrated, anyone can criticise or put down any other nation, it's a matter of TACT. To any more non-Americans who feel like they don't like the article, why don't you just hit the back button and read another thread instead of sowing misery on a nations day of celebration. OK? [img]smile.gif[/img] |
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07-04-2002, 04:58 AM | #14 |
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Nice post Lady Z, but you forgot to mention Dutch, don't forget that 30%(!) of the entire US population has his or hers roots in the Netherlands.
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07-04-2002, 05:03 AM | #15 | |
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07-04-2002, 05:11 AM | #17 |
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well yorick, i would say that as mixed up as we are at this point, a lot of those 70 million irishmen are probably part dutch as well.
most people are from 3 or 4 different places we can trace back, i'm irish, scottish, and german.
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07-04-2002, 05:23 AM | #19 | |
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07-04-2002, 05:25 AM | #20 | |
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Don't mean to put you down -- and I certainly have nothing against a healthy bit of patriotism, either (or I wouldn't be seeing my love of Chinese culture as a good thing) -- but if it doesn't apply to all humanity, at the same time neither does it apply to all Americans, does it? Do you think all Americans are generous, that all Americans welcome the best, etc? I for one wouldn't imagine that all Chinese are good Confucians -- lovely fantasy though it might be. By all means, Americans should celebrate Independence Day. All I ask is that they don't become overly filled with themselves while celebrating this day. And don't mind if I ask: if this thread were instead to be about, say, the Chinese celebrating some major event in their country (say the reunification of Taiwan with China) and talking about their major achievements in history, would you be as ready to defend them and speak on their behalf? Would you? [ 07-04-2002, 05:28 AM: Message edited by: K T Ong ]
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