i think that the world wants more from us. wants us to be what we promised.
Dead on. At least I personally was a bit disappointed on all of this. I believed in the American values and righteousness.
That belief is, unfortunately, shattering slowly.
I've grown up with western, American, values of life. My country fought a bitter war against the communist giant, Soviet Union. USA represented and for the most part, still represents most of the things that are admireable and desireable in life. Nothing disappoints me more than to see the people whom I respected and looked up to, call my country trash in a vile generalisation.
I'm constantly reminding myself that this is a UBB and there'll always be narrow minded, rude and even mentally insane people posting. No-one of my American friends ever express the hate I see in the posts here.
What Americans should realize IMO is that we Europeans are your friends. We share a past history together, essentially we're same blood.
Now friends can disagree, even bicker and fight sometimes, but where is the hate coming from? My guess is that the loud minority is staining the reputation of the silent majority. It must be so, or my whole perception of your country and way of life has been utterly wrong. // Edit: Same goes the other way around, naturally.
