Just to clarify, your aggravated attack on someone who displayed a different opinion to you is what makes you a redneck (suprised you didn't try to steal his oil while you where at it)
I didn't attack anyone, merely explaining my displeasure with being stereotyped, his opinion that I had a problem with was making a bolanket statement about the land in which I live.
Your comment about diversity in your country I totally ignored, because its irrelevant. No really, the only reason you had to add it was to try and legitimise your post by a blanket statement with no basis in the arguement. (Unless your claiming all the diversity is what has caused you to need guns?)
I don't "have to" add anything. My point was that while we have people you refer to as "rednecks" (an offensive ugly term) We also have liberals, conservatives, businesspeople, farmers, eskimos, judges, lawyers, doctors, garbagemen, etc. So while some people may feel the "need" to tote a weapon, where I live it's actually frowned upon.
American foreign politics? You really must be blind or stupid, other countries don't appreciate america sticking its nose in everyone elses business and trying to act like global police while making war for oil.
Bush pretty much made your country look like a bunch of uneducated hics and rednecks.
And Paul Hogan did wonders for you. Meanwhile, for some reason I don't picture you an alligator wrestler. Why? I know better to believe what I'm fed, it's called taking something with a grain of salt.
The stereotype of Americans is blown out of proportion, because alot of people really hate your government, and it largely colours their view, even the most educated and intelligent american's I have met are always deeply patriotic and their most common mistake is just not understanding the rest of the world just isn't like America (but often think it should be).
1So you're telling me that 1 people hate me because of the actions perpetrated by my government. Why don't I hate Iranians? Because I fully understand that my friends do not like their leaders. It's called free thought.
2 so these incredibly intelligent people are patriotic and that is stupid, but they are smart. I'm not sure, but I haven't seen patriotism tested during the Wechsler nor have I read any studies correlating patriotism with lack of consideration. Love of one's country is not mutually exclusive with concern for another's.
Of course your American, so your side of the arguement must be right? Right?
Must be frustrating not being able to shoot me for disagreeing I imagine.
These little jabs illustrate your ability to so misunderstand other people. It's sad really. While you sit here berating me for taking offense to be stereotyped, stating that it's my own fault, you just assume you know me.
Maybe it's that the last time my people were stereotyped for what most people believed it resulted in my family's extermination... I don't judge you by the actions of Mel Gibson do I?
