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Raised in the USA really fucked my mind up for living outside of the USA later in life. I have no fucking idea why we don't get in line with everyone else. Life would be so much easier.
I often wonder if they don't do that just to try to keep Americans home so they can be good worker bees and pay their taxes that help fuel the USA's quest for empire, or to pay the interest on the debt the USA owes, whichever you want to believe.
Americans are generally not worldly people, be it in actual world experience, world history, or just basic understand of what is happening elsewhere. Every where I go, no matter how desolate or off the beaten path, I'll usually run into at least one German, Australian, or Israeli. Almost never run into Americans unless it's in the usual "safe" tourist haunts.
I read a stat recently that said only 38% of Americans have a passport. That is incredible. Yet any American you ask will claim the USA is the best country in the world. Maybe that is true, maybe it's not. But how could they possibly know if they have nothing to compare it to? And probably less than the 38% of passport holders have ever used their passport and traveled abroad. Boggles the mind.
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