First day of school
Tuesday, September 06, 2005Today is the beginning of the school year for my brothers. Don't you remember the freshness of that morning? Enjoy while you still can. Yet, I have no right to say: I'm still in school. But one day I shall join the MAN's world.
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So, yesterday I got into a heated debate on the worthiness of America on the world stage. I had it with this guy when I announced that I was from Pennsylvania. He immediately started to say how I was so arrogant because of this and I expected everyone to know that I was from the United States. Of course Pennsylvania is from the United States and everyone should know that. Of course I didn't really think that and I told him that if anyone didn't know then they should ask me. It doesn't hurt to ask.
Then we got into a debate on 9.11 and how the United States is just after Iraq for their oil. Saddam Hussein was just a little player in our quest/greed for oil. Or course. And how Americans are so arrogant that we don't bother to learn other people's languages. I was just like, "Dude, learning English probably helped you. It is only the second most spoken language in the world. And it would benefit you to learn it. What would I gain by learning Dutch?"
I know that sounds arrogant, playing directly into his hands, but really its the truth. I can't stand when foreigners just try to bash America when the only person they have listened to is Michael Moore. Michael Moore is an extremist and if a person is dumb enough to listen to Moore 100% then that person is not fit to talk to. Really. To form an opinion you should really look at both sides, at many sources before you have the right to say anything at all.
I have hope that there lies somewhere, a nice foreigner that is intelligent enough to not hate America and every single American because the actions of Bush or the reports of Michael Moore.
there are other ways to help those ppl, not only war, thousands of iraqi's died for nothing because of you, if you want to help, do it right, even during sadam the situation was better than now
In other oil-related business...
September 08, 2005 3:54 AM
Well - I don't think Michael Moore is all bad. He irritates me, not for being critical of America -- there are plenty of valid, constructive, and necessary criticisms to be made -- but for being a shrill sellout. His earlier stuff, particularly Roger & Me, focused on labor issues -- more helpful for the majority of the American electorate, and something he's better at doing anyway.