Siotus
Posted 10-17-2010 3:52pm
Sulvi said:
Oh and Siotus saying Americans are not ignorant, say that when you've lived out of the USA for a few years.
I have. I'm a second generation Mexican american - I've grown up in two cultures, been to Mexico countless times, spent a month in Germany, been to Australia, summer in Spain. I'm the first person in my entire extended family to have graduated from college; having grown up in a family of six that survived on $800 a month and now sit comfortably in the middle class. My family wouldn't be where it is now if not for the united states.You expect us to collapse at your argument when all you are is condescending and ignorant, expecting us to be either geniuses or fools, and assuming us to be the latter; no middle ground.Being born and raised here may make me seem partial and biased to those who are already partial and biased, but as a member of the race that it's the newest fad to discriminate against, I understand the blind ignorance of this nation like few others can. All it does is give me a perspective that foreigners like you don't seem to want to acknowledge about Americans; that we're regular people, and its unfair to call us stupid because you judge the many on the actions of the few.I don't assume all white people are racist because I've met a few who are.The same, you shouldn't assume all Americans are stupid because you've met quite a few who are.Here's an example, I'm not going to allow your ignorance of Americans ruin my opinion of Englishmen, or British people as a whole. You're one out of 60 million and judging 60 million people based on one person, or even two or ten or twenty, is unfair to the other 59,999,980 people.
Siotus