Rant: coming to America

[paracelsia]

This is an editorial published in "The Cambridge Student:"

"Certain traits are quintessentially British and I love them. I actively embrace them; I drink tea, I discuss the weather at great length, I believe a handshake is as good as a hug, I'm not forthcoming with praise and you can't beat a good queue. I recently went on a cruise ship which was

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[________puberty]

my favorite was "I was regretting not bringing a rusty needle with me to shove in my eye."

haha hilarious
i'm not sure all of america is like the cruise going population

[kah_tea_uh]

I agree with Jenny, it's too bad that people think so poorly of Americans. What I get pissed off about is that it's totally ok to make fun of Americans, but if an American makes even the slightest sarcastic comment about somebody else's culture we are called stupid, insensitive Americans. Quite the hypocrisy, there, not that some American's aren't dumb and/or brash and/or rude and/or weird, but there are people in every country like that, but our government, and some annoying tourists, make it seem, well, bad...
Dom says it's because the US is a superpower, and a country can't make fun of countries that are smaller than it. Thus, New Zealand can make fun of anybody, but it can't make fun of the Maori, and England can make fun of the US but it can't make fun of Tibet.