Bad things America has given the world

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Americans can be stupid... but so can every other nation. Why pick on just one? And there are alot of Americans on these boards who could be offended by this.

 

which is why this topic was created AFTER the "good things America has given the world" thread. See? no one has taken offense yet, since we have representation for both sides of the equation.

 

Ok,
1) it is my understanding, and has long been so, that Christmas has no real connection with the birth of Christ other than a matter of church mandate. The Church of Rome found it convenient to honor his birth during the winter solstice after a period of pagan festival of the Roman Empire known as Saturnalia. It would draw attention away from the festival of Mithras [A sun god], and juxtapose Christ with the notion of the coming of light. This is a limited understanding, and if i'm wrong, please correct me.

2) For some reason, California [Where I'm from] in particular gets a bad rap, even from other Americans. We have Hollywood, yes. Hollywood makes many sick perversions of the truth for the sake of entertainment. The difference between someone from California and someone from somewhere else: We have the brains to understand its purposefully exaggerated for entertainment. We do not [most of us] take it as truth. California has two of the largest information and industry hubs in the world in San Diego and San Francisco [Where I'm from, and where I am currently living, respectively]. We have Silicon Valley, the home of a technological paradise. Our high schools reflect poorly because of our numbers [which drag our rankings down] but our universities [UC Berkeley [Where I attend], LA, Santa Barbara, San Diego, Davis, etc.] each consistently rank among the top 10-20 public universities in the nation, with "Socialist" Berkeley ranking consistently at #1. We have gorgeous beaches and a far more relaxed attitude than what people have come to label as "The American Attitude."

If the US were to suddenly dump California, [About 1/8th of its population] I would stand proud. We have the best beaches, the nicest warm weather, the cutest girls, the best universities, the most laid-back attitude, and the industry and wealth to support ourselves. I think the rest of America is just jealous. Don't judge we Californians for the actions of Texans. We didn't vote him in.

An anti-Christmas, pro-California rant brought to you by:

Amon-Ra

 

amazing what you get when mixing the scum of the world and adventurers as a foundation of a new nation

 

One word: MacCulture. All aspects.

 

Fat people

 

@ Mortensen

I am pretty sure that fat people have been around much longer than the United States has...

 

Nahh Fat people were invented in America and anorexics

 

They have redefined the word "fat"

 

To mean HUUUMMMOOOONNNGGGGOOOOUUUUSSSSS lol

Edit: Oh yes and they also invented the 'I have scottish roots'...5 million years back

[ January 09, 2003, 11:46: Message edited by: Mortensen ]

 

You mean like black scottish americans from the McKaminski Clan?

I had the opportunity to watch an american couple searching their family roots in a tartan shop in Edinburgh. The clerks politely explained that they were sure that they, with this name (which I unfortunately forgot), were certainly not related with a couple of clans, however they couldn't tell anything definite about other clans. Eventually they ended up buying a kilt and tartan ties from one of the other clans that *could, perhaps, possibly* be related with them and victoriously left the battlefield

Almost as funny was an american tourist in a patisserie in paris: Very determined she eventually entered the shop, pointing at a small cake, showing three fingers, barking something like "Toute de suite, s´il vous plaît" with a frightened smile She was handed here cakes with an expression of mild yet polite pity. She payed and left hastily, securing the cakes from the ever mysterious primitives in the old world.

When I think closer, that was actually a good thing they gave to the world On a bad day you can easily feel better with them in the world.

[ January 09, 2003, 12:26: Message edited by: Ragusa ]