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drumsicle,
Are you really this myopic?? A bigot is one who is intolerant of others. Nowhere have I been intolerant of you or anyone else. I simply pointed out the image being seen of the USA from the rest of the world. You took offense to that.
As to saying there are a lot of others who think the way you do running around the American countryside full of ethnic intolerance, that's been proven again and again recently in the news reports convering the attacks against US citizens who happen to be middle eastern in appearance or follow middles eastern based religions. So in that, I'm just stating facts.
What continues to amaze and amuse me is the fact that you say, (1) I don't like Americans and you have assumed that, (2) I'm European. To the first one, I just grin and to the second one I have to say thanks, since that means I have a expanded outlook on life. So how about you open your eyes and take a look at the world around you as it really exists. News flash, reality check, the world doesn't revolve around the USA. The US simply plays it's role in the whole global equasion.
So would it surprise you to know I was born here and raised in the south and can trace my paternal ancestors back to the American Revolution. That I've had family fight in the Revolution, both sides of the Civil War, WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam and the Gulf Conflict. That maybe I know so much about what the French went through during WWII because my father fought at the Battle of the Bulge and my mother is French and was in the Underground Resistance during WWII and has been a US citizen since 1949. Every question I asked about war in my initial post are things my mom went through.
As I stated before, you really need to learn exactly what national pride is all about. You may puff out your chest and be proud to be an American, but you still don't understand what that really means. National pride is the celebration of the blood, sweat and tears that built this country, from all the people of all the different nationalities involved in that building.
America is diverse in it's ethnic makeup, that's one of the foundations of the country. The people in NY that died were from a variety of ethnic background themselves. Sixty-two countries lost lives in NY. Maybe someday you'll see that it's not only a US tragedy, it's a world tragedy and it's one that the world unfortunately is used to dealing with. So to lash out at people from other countries is to deny them their losses, to belittle their grief and to lessen the value of the family members they no longer have either.
I'm as angry as the next person that it happened, but I'm not angry at a people, I'm angry at a concept. The concept that some humans condone,support and embrace the use of mass terror and murder to further their agendas without thought to the value of the lives they will effect.
And so I leave you with these thoughts:
"Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them."Apostle Matthew
"Not one of you is a believer until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself." Muhammad (pbuh)
"An it harm none, do what thou wilt." The Wiccan Rede
"To be able to judge of others by what is nigh in ourselves;-this may be called the art of virtue." Confucius
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