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I fail to see the comparison.
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What we're ultimately discussing is the social psychology of competition.
People make simple and quick judgements about the world.. Once you?ve defined ?us? and ?them? everything is usually interpreted with that in mind. Americans are as quick to make such judgements as anyone else. Over the years, we?ve labeled the Nazis, the Communists, the Russians, the Chinese, the North Koreans, and the Iraqis as our enemies. Each new event was then interpreted as ?look what those communists are doing now. How evil.?
All this should be obvious to someone looking at the hatred held by the average American but can you look at yourself? I doubt it.
Don?t you find it amusing that many members of western nations speak negatively of the conservativeness of America while many Arabs speak of its licentiousness? You should. Can it really be both? Of course not. What?s going on here? How can someone who chants the mantra of cultural relativism claim that someone else?s culture is inferior? Hypocrisy Now. I?m not signing up for your little club.
Why do some Europeans get upset about the effect of US steel tariffs on so-called free markets but not be concerned about the effect on free markets of their heavy agricultural subsidies?
Why did anti-Americanism begin to rise so quickly after the fall of the Soviet Union? Why were so many papers appearing in the 1990s pointing out the rising anti-Americanism in the world? the psychology of competition right there.
The Yankees are THEM .. And so are these other Yankees. Welcome to the Cult of Otherness. You?re standing in a long line.