| For Non-Americans: How do you feel about America?This is just a question for those who live outside of America, although anyone can obviously answer.
A few questions:
How do you feel about America's response to 9/11?
How do you feel about America and the war in Iraq?
What are your feelings about Obama's promises?
Would you move to America if your property and job was available and exactly the same in America?
Any other comments and opinions are appreciated.
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Asked By: Computer User - 7/27/2009 |
Well, I am Norwegian, but I now live in the US - in California. I may not count. But here we go anyway...
How do you feel about America's response to 9/11?
They went after the wrong people. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. All of the hijackers except one or two (three maybe?) were Saudi Arabian. However, some Americans are so stupid they think Iraq had something to do with it and will actually get mad and scream at you if you correct them. Even if you're polite. That is frightening to me.
How do you feel about America and the war in Iraq?
Well, see above to start. Also, a lot of my family has immigrated here and we all joined the military, of course. I don't understand people who don't do such things and then rattle their sabres, as they say. I still have two brothers over there. I wish they could come home. I know the US involvement there was based on lies and fervent, almost Nazi-like nationalism and a widely-denied prejudice against little brown people. Not to mention, the US tends to re-elect presidents who are serving during times of "war" so I'm sure it was kept going so a certain someone would stay in office, the populace being too cowardly to vote him out during a time of "war". I did not like Saddam and his sons, but I also do not like the US getting too involved in the business of other nations. They needed to go, for sure. However, the US needs to go now, too. The US needed to go a long time ago. The Iraqi people need to work things out among themselves. We can't babysit them forever.
What are your feelings about Obama's promises?
Well, I am fiscally fairly conservative, but I am socially very liberal. I am somewhat distressed over how much money he is spending, but at least *this* US president is spending it on his own country instead of on things he can use to rampage across the Middle East while enriching his buddies. I like *some* of his health care ideas, but hope he pushes for a Scandinavian style system. There are good models out there the US can use to care for its citizens, they just have to stop misusing the word "socialism" to scare people (Hva? why be scared of that??? Greed? Lack of caring for your fellow human?) and pay attention to how other people are doing it and succeeding.
Would you move to America if your property and job was available and exactly the same in America?
Well, I did. Things are very different here, but I do like the weather and the state in the US that I live in right now. I can drive an hour in one direction and be at the beach. I can drive an hour in the other direction and go skiing. We have a year round growing season here. I also happen to live in what Time Magazine called "the most ethnically diverse city in the US", so I can always find other Northern Europeans to hang out with. (According to the census data Time used, there are almost 400 - 400! - different languages spoken in this metro area. And no, it is not New York or Los Angeles)
I love the US. It has its problems, just like any other nation. However, it is a huge country with lots of neat things to see and do and the people here are different from what I'm used to, but most of them have been very kind to me. Not European kind where they'll just buddy up with a total stranger and show them around, but pleasant, at least.
I will go home some day, but not for a long while. I may miss sitting on the roof of my family's cottage and watching the Northern lights drape themselves across the sky and dance purely for my pleasure, but I would also miss things like avocados (a green fruit that they use as a vegetable here that is rich and buttery and yummy!) and the ability - no, the RIGHT as guaranteed by their laws - to speak out against something I disagree with even if others find my opinion disgusting.
Oh, did I mention the weather in California is almost perfect? I don't think you could die of hypothermia where I live if you tried. Heat stroke maybe, but you sure won't freeze to death... ;-)
Answered By: Miss Dementia - 7/27/2009 |