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Skriven 2006-07-30 07:45:02 av Björn Forsström (2:203/614.61)
  Kommentar till text 34887 av Jeff Smith (1:14/0)
Ärende: Israel
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 BF>> As Felten said, they claim to be mainstream Americans so all you have to
 BF>> do is to stand up against it and show us that it isn't so and as we all
 BF>> outside USA have said so many times and I hope you will get it this time.

 JS>      They can claim anything that they choose. It is up to you to be smart
 JS> enough to know when they are talking out their other somewhat puckered
 JS> orafice. I can claim to speak for any group or country. That sure a heck
 JS> don't make it so. If you think I do I also have some swampland for sale.
 JS> <g>

Of course you have a point but.....

 BF>>  No one hates the American people, just those who claim they
 BF>> are mainstream Americans and are constantly bashing everyone else outside
 BF>> (and inside) the US to be idiots and put themself (like Roy above) in
 BF>> diamond houses.


 JS>      They why use terms like "Typical American attitude" if you are
 JS> refering to only 2-4 individuals? There may be another 299+ million
 JS> Americans that might not say or claim to speak for anyone but themselves.
 JS> You are letting them pull your chains and in so doing proving their point
 JS> to them. If I think you are full of crap regarding an attitude or
 JS> statement that you have made. I am not foolish enough to think or assume
 JS> that others, many, most, or all of your country people think the same way.
 JS> I look at people as individuals and try my best to treat them accordingly.

....the other day I happend to see an American program about dog shows and
they are so damn extreme like anything we see from America. Those who makes
motorcycles, Monster Garage, you name it, nothing is done in a normal way and
then we meet the same extremism here. I'm the best, I'm the biggest, I'm the
loudest, *uck the rest so what the heck shall we think and then people like you
comes in the background but when you finally speak up you make (at least me)
wonder, why are the otheres so loud? What's their problem? And you don't
really see any of that bulying manners from someone outside of the US unless
we're provoked.

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